Whatever your opinion on personalised number plates, it’s big business not just for purveyors of registration numbers, but for the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) too.
Each year the DVLA holds sales to flog number plates no longer, or never in, circulation to raise a few bob, with prices ranging from a few hundred pounds to over £500k for ’25 O’.
So with the latest number plate sale due to run from 22-24 November, DVLA are promoting it with what they think is the perfect plate for a Doctor Who fan – or Whovian – with the sale of ‘WHO 63’.
It might not quite be the ‘WHO 1’ famed for being on John Pertwee’s Doctor Who car, but it does denote the year Doctor Who first aired (1963) and will go under the hammer almost exactly 54 years to the hour Doctor Who first aired at 5.15pm on 24 November 1963.
But it’s not just Doctor Who fans being enticed to buy a new number plate, with Manchester football fans wooed with ‘M17 CTY’ and MA17 ‘UTD’, and potential buyers who are desperate to tell the world their name (or an approximation) with ‘DOU 9G’ and PA11 DDY’, amongst others.
John Davies, DVLA’s Personalised Registrations Sales Manager, said:
"2017 has been yet another incredibly successful year for the sale of personalised registrations. We have experienced auctions with sales of over 99.5 per cent which clearly shows that the popularity of personalised registrations with motorists continues. With the range we are auctioning at Wychwood Park I am sure that success will continue."
The DVLA Number Plate Auction is at Wychwood Park in Crewe from 22-14 November 2017.
Via: Cars UK
