Author: Reg Plates Editor
Jon Cherry is a Director of leading personalised number plate dealer Regplates.com. Jon has over 25 years industry experience handling some of the most expensive plates ever sold with many high profile and celebrity clients. Active since 1991 in the number plate industry, Jon is currently Chairman of the Cherished Numbers Guild, a trade body representing number plate dealers in the UK. Jon has written many articles on the industry and insight into the future of numberplates and the market as a whole.

SKC Registration Numbers Released

BIDDING for car registration numbers 1 to 9999 in the SKC series will start at 8am on Saturday (April 16) and end at noon on April 23. The minimum bid amount is $1,000. Offers higher than that must be made

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  • 14th Apr, 2011

Z Cars Reg Plates Top For Crashes

Does your car have the alphabet Z in its registration number? If so, beware. A British study says vehicles with that letter are involved in the maximum number of accidents. The last letter of the alphabet appears in three of

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  • 13th Apr, 2011

CEXI Numberplate, yours for £850,000!

A souped-up Rolls-Royce owned by an Indian Maharajah has gone on sale for a staggering £850,000. The super car, with the number plate ‘Cexi’, is the only one of its kind in the world. Customised from a 2005 Rolls-Royce, the

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  • 13th Apr, 2011

Beijing Car Registrations Could Be Top For Electric

Overcrowding is a huge problem in Beijing, to the point where new car registration comes down to a lottery system…unless you purchase a plug-in or electric vehicle. Is Beijing poised to become the electric car capital of the world? Bertel

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  • 12th Apr, 2011

Confederate Flag On FLorida Number Plates

The Florida branch of the Sons of Confederate Veterans sued the state after its 2008 application to approve a “confederate heritage” plate was denied by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles and then permanently stalled in the state

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  • 7th Apr, 2011

RYM 4N Dragons Den Star Helping Charities

Theo Paphitis, star of BBC entrepreneur show Dragon’s Den, has ‘chromed’ his Maybach 62 for charity, reports Daily Mail. The Dragon has allowed Maybach and Kent-based Raccoon Group to chrome his expensive vehicle in order to raise money for a

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  • 7th Apr, 2011

Diplomatic Numnerplates not so diplomatic!

When the car with diplomatic plates whizzed past on Sheikh Zayed Road at more than 140kph, being driven aggressively and swerving between lanes without indicating, Maj Gen Saif al Zafein, the head of Dubai Traffic Police, swung into action. The

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  • 6th Apr, 2011

Record Prices Achieved At Number Plae Auction

A license plate number “?JZ9999,” a lucky number in China, was bought by a bidder at the record price of 605,000 yuan during an auction in Taizhou City, east China’s Zhejiang Province on March 29. The revenue of this auction

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  • 31st Mar, 2011

Musical Cherished Numberplates!

Tennessee will unveil a new vanity license plate this afternoon at 3 p.m. with the theme “State of American Music.” The new plate “properly promotes Tennessee as the most musical state in the nation,” said John Doyle, Executive Director of

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  • 30th Mar, 2011

New Bears Numberplates To Be Released

Bears fans can now add one more item to their arsenals: a vanity license plate. Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White will unveil the new Chicago Bears permanent Illinois license plate this afternoon in Chicago. Chicago Bears Hall of Famer

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  • 29th Mar, 2011