Famous Number Plates With Movie Themes

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Famous Number Plates With Movie Themes

Number plates cost THOUSANDS from James Bond to Thunderbirds.

THE most iconic movie cars of all time also carry some of the priciest personalised number plates in the world.

And in some cases, the famous registrations are almost as well-known as the cars themselves.
So how much would these licence plates be worth if they hit the open market?

Experts at car dealer Peter Vardy have compiled the list of the best movie cars and their pricey plates based on similar sales in recent years.

Top of the list is ROBIN 1 from Magnum P.I. which has an estimated value of £256,100 – not far off the value of the Ferrari 308 GTS driven by Tom Selleck’s cool detective.

Two James Bond plates are next – 007 JB (£128k) and AU1 from Goldfinger (£127k) – followed by FAB1 from Lady Penelope’s Thunderbirds car at £117,473.

Batman’s BAT 1 plate (£27k) and Doc Brown’s OUTATIME plate on his time-travelling DeLorean (£5k) also make the list.

But if these are a little outside your price range, we’ve hunted through the upcoming September DVLA number plate auction to pick out a few movie-themed alternatives that you can bag yourself for as little as £300.

FAB1 might break the bank but this slight variation has a reserve of just £300.

That leaves plenty of spare cash in the bank to pay for your own Parker. It also works if you own a Skoda Fabia.

You might not have a Batmobile but you can pick up this £350 plate and pretend you’re Bruce Wayne in Gotham City.

Just make sure you’re not followed by The Joker or Harvey Dent on your morning commute.

B12O OWN: £250

The OUTATIME registration plate will never go on sale in the UK as it doesn’t meet the DVLA structure.

But if you want to pay subtle homage to Doc Brown why not pick up this for £250.

488 DR: £2,200

If your pockets are a little deeper, then this 488 DR plate could be the perfect Back to the Future option.

The Dr speak for itself but for proper fans the 88 will mean nothing other than the 88mph the DeLorean had to hit to time travel.

JA17 MES: £400

Any plate that links in anyway to James Bond and 007 is worth a pretty penny.

This plate is a snip at £400 – although it would only be fair to splash out on an Aston Martin for it.

AV11 TAR: £700

The big budget sci-fi epic hit screens in 2009, breaking box office records along the way.

A sequel is slated for 2020 so cash in now on this £700 plate as its value could go up in a few years.

Buying this plate should be elementary. Sherlock doesn’t own a car and prefers hopping in taxis to crime scenes.

If he did own a motor, though, we’re pretty sure he’d part with the money to get this as his personalised reg.

LOG 644N: £250

Hugh Jackman might have hung up his claws as Wolverine but not before he had one final outing in the smash hit Logan.

We’re pretty sure if he’s reading, he’s lining up a bid for this plate at auction.

GHO 57T: £300

Heart-throb Patrick Swayze and that pottery scene are enough to make any movie fan swoon – and you can get the plate to match for just £300.

Or, if Ghost isn’t your movie buy this plate and pretend you’re Jon Snow’s long lost dire wolf from Game of Thrones.

HOB 5S: £350

The Fast and Furious franchise holds records for the number of cars it’s smashed up and few remain in one piece long enough to warrant a personalised plate.

But Dwayne Johnson’s hard-hitting agent Hobbs is the sort of guy who’d want this plate – probably fitted to a ridiculously sized 4×4. And as The Rock is one of the highest paid actors in the world, he can likely stretch to the £350 reserve.

In fact, when the DVLA issues a car’s registration plate, they actually follow a very distinct system.

While it may look like a random combination, a number plate can actually tell you how old the car is and where it was registered.

A new format for registrations was introduced in September 2001, meaning all cars registered after that date would have their number plate made up of three parts.

How to tell where the car is from

The first section of a number plate is the local memory tag – the first two letters of the plate.

This identifies where the vehicle was registered, and is itself broken down into two parts.

The first letter stands for the local area, for example E denotes Essex, while L stands for London.

The plate’s second letter then identifies at which DVLA office in that area the registration took place – multiple letters can signify the same DVLA office.

The letters I, Q and Z are not used as local office identifiers, while Z can be used only as a random letter.

If you have a clear idea of the letters and numbers you would like in your number plate, you can carry out a specialised search that covers over 42 million combinations of number plate registrations.

Choosing between current style number plates and prefix style number plates gives you a wider range of options, so you are more likely to find a private plate that includes the letters and numbers you prefer. All you need to do is fill in two of the three search boxes at the top of the page and then let our website do its magic. You will be presented with options you can purchase for yourself, or as a gift.

Personalised number plate auctions take place every three months, selling an average of 1,600 private registration numbers each time. They are a great opportunity to get hold of number plates that have never been on sale before, as they come with the new issues of each year’s plates.

If you are unable to attend the auction yourself, you can rely on us to bid on your dream personalised number plate – which will also help to prevent you from getting carried away and bidding far more than you had intended to!

We have the experience and expertise to be able to offer you advice and guidance about the kind of price range a particular plate might go for, and you can trust us to place your bids for you. We can even call you during the auction so you can keep track of whether you’re on a winning streak or not.

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