{"id":30,"date":"2010-01-07T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-reg.com\/numberplates\/?p=30"},"modified":"2025-09-24T08:59:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T07:59:36","slug":"eric-morecambes-cherished-number-rescued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/07\/eric-morecambes-cherished-number-rescued\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Morecambes Cherished Number Rescued!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Morecambe\u2019s 1971 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow has been spared from the scrapheap at the last minute.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Yates, who runs a wedding car firm in Morecambe, spotted the car in a Shrewsbury junkyard just 24 hours before it was due to be dismantled.<\/p>\n<p>He said finding the car \u2013 which had the number plate EM100 when Morecambe owned it \u2013 was a \u2018miracle\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The car was owned by the comic from 1971 and 1974 \u2013 as shown by the original order note \u2013 and Yates says it still smells of cigar smoke.<\/p>\n<p>How the car came to be in a scrapheap is unknown. Seven years ago the car, including the personalised number plate, sold for \u00a336,000 at auction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Morecambe\u2019s 1971 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow has been spared from the scrapheap at the last minute. Peter Yates, who runs a wedding car firm in Morecambe, spotted the car in a Shrewsbury junkyard just 24 hours before it was due<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-xs btn-info read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/07\/eric-morecambes-cherished-number-rescued\/\" role=\"button\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-reg-plate-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3719,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/3719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}