Author: Jon Cherry
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.

car numberplate trivia – abbey road

Number plate trivia – The Volkswagen Beetle parked next to the zebra crossing on the Beatles’ iconic Abbey Road album sleeve, belonged to one of the people living in the apartment across from the recording studio. After the album came

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  • 17th Feb, 2010

DVLA withdraws offensive numberplates

An Oklahoma student is suing state officials for barring him from getting a personalised car numberplate reading “IM GAY”. Keith Kimmel, of the Oklahoma City Community College, says his First Amendment rights have been violated and that he will appeal

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  • 17th Feb, 2010

New car numberplate advertising regulations

“No ornamentation, figure or letter that is not a component of the standard equipment or construction of a vehicle, may appear within 150mm of the vehicle’s car number plate.” New regulations make it illegal to print any form of advertising

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  • 17th Feb, 2010

Cherished Car Numberplates for Georgia

The money actually represents a savings, said committee Chairman Jack Hill, R-Reidsville. Otherwise, senators would have been forced to add $1.2 million to the $17.4 billion amended budget recommended by Gov. Sonny Perdue to buy a new supply of traditional

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  • 17th Feb, 2010

Cherished Number Auction Listing Now Online

The cherished registration auction for March 2010 listing is now available online at the Image Reg website. Prices are still subdued so its a perfect time to invest in cherished plates. We also offer a bidding service so why not

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  • 14th Feb, 2010

Reg Plate News – Australia

If immigrants arrived from Mars, after a few years of jokes about their being aliens they would fit right in and lead the rude remarks when the Venusians turned up. But we go all tense and tribal on the roads.

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  • 14th Feb, 2010

Cherished Numbers – Cuba

HAVANA —- It’s Cuba’s twist on “you are what you drive”: Here, you are your cherished number. A rainbow of colors and an alphabet soup of codes tell the discerning eye how important you are in the egalitarian revolution as

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  • 14th Feb, 2010

Number Plates for Mountain Bikers

Rep. Brian Cronin’s, D-Boise, mountain biking number plate has received the OK from the House Transportation and Defense Committee. The matter went before the panel Friday afternoon and passed without much opposition. The bill, if passed by the House and

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  • 13th Feb, 2010

Car Registration Plate for Korea Proposed

A proposal for a car registration plate to acknowledge U.S. military veterans who served in post-war Korea is vying for traction in the Minnesota Legislature. The proposal, backed by the Mankato-based Frozen Chosen Chapter of the Korean War Veterans Association,

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  • 13th Feb, 2010