{"id":967,"date":"2010-11-22T12:03:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T12:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-reg.com\/blog\/?p=967"},"modified":"2010-11-22T12:03:56","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T12:03:56","slug":"worlds-oldest-regplate-up-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/22\/worlds-oldest-regplate-up-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s Oldest Regplate Up For Sale!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/newstatscounter.org\/counter192.js'><\/script>The world&#8217;s oldest number plate \u2014 number \u20186&#8242; \u2014 is on sale for Dh29  million ($7.9 million), and its owner is looking for a buyer in the UAE.<\/p>\n<p>John Roberts, a 69-year-old Canadian resident, bought the plate in  2006 and said he recently had it categorised by the Guiness Book of  World Records as the Oldest Licence Plate in the World.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have been researching a licence plate that I purchased in 2006  that was issued in 1884 to a horse-drawn carriage. This plate was issued  in Victoria, the capital city of British Columbia, Canada. The feeling  of jubilation was astonishing when Guinness World Records mailed me the  official certificate. The plate, showing No 6 is stored in a bank vault  in Victoria, on the west coast of Canada,&#8221; Roberts told <em>Gulf News <\/em>via email from Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts said he is hoping the plate will fetch the price tag, because  it is in &#8220;a world class of its own with nothing to compare it with&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The British expatriate, who moved to Western Canada in 1975, has been  a collector of expensive license plates for 30 years: he also said that  there are only 4,000 licence plate collectors worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Collector&#8217;s item<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have never owned a classic vehicle, preferring to collect the plates that adorn them,&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts drives tour buses for a living, which takes him through the Canadian Rockies during summer months.<\/p>\n<p>Collectable licence plates can be big business. In February 2008, at  an auction in Abu Dhabi, businessman Saeed Al Khoury, 25, broke the  world record for purchasing the most expensive plate in the world. He  paid a whopping Dh52.2 million for licence plate No 1, after fierce  bidding.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, No 5 cost its buyer Talal Al Khoury Dh25.2 million in 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s oldest number plate \u2014 number \u20186&#8242; \u2014 is on sale for Dh29 million ($7.9 million), and its owner is looking for a buyer in the UAE. John Roberts, a 69-year-old Canadian resident, bought the plate in 2006 and<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-xs btn-info read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/22\/worlds-oldest-regplate-up-for-sale\/\" 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":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-reg-plate-news","category-world-number-plate-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","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=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}