M155 FOX Number Plate For Sale For Leicester Fans

A woman selling her "Miss Fox" personalised number plate for £16,000 hopes female Leicester City fans might be interested.

Karen Wray, who lives in Durham, placed an advert in Monday's Mercury for her personalised number plate M155 FOX.

"I've been known as Fox since my husband chose it as a nickname for me about 30 years ago," she said.

"He came up with it and it just stuck.
About 10 years ago a friend of his saw the number plate advertised - my husband's reaction was 'how much?' but it was a must-have.

"He gave it to me for my birthday present.

"But now I'm buying a new car so I thought I would sell it and I hoped a Leicester City fan might be interested in it.

"I don't know how much my husband spent on it but I thought £16,000 was a good price to start at, based on conversations with people - and I'm happy to haggle."

Karen said she had been impressed with Leicester City's performance over the past couple of years and had high hopes the team would continue to recover from its rocky start to 2017

In the Premier League, which Leicester City won last season, the Foxes have struggled. Between New Year and February 12 they had one draw and five losses, putting them in the relegation zone.

But they have managed to win their last two matches, which were against Hull and Liverpool.

Karen said: "I'm heavily into football and I thought Leicester were absolutely amazing last season and it was great to see them doing so well.

"They're having a tough time this year but I'm a Chelsea fan so my team have been through a bad patch recently but managed to rebound again.

"I'm sure Leicester are going to do the same."

Last year Northern Irish builder David McMurray bought the number plate VAR 9Y hoping to sell it to the striker himself or else a devoted fan.

He bought it for £4,000 but the highest bid he got on eBay was for £870.

Rajesh Solanki, who lives in Leicester, tried to sell a similar plate - V9 RDY - to the striker.

But he was declined in a Twitter conversation with the Foxes striker's wife.

So what are the top selling number plates in the UK? The DVLA has been selling private plates to UK motorists since 1989. During this time, there have been a number of records set, but most of the top 10 have been bought in the past 15 years. Here’s what currently makes the list:

25 0 – A Ferrari dealer bought this for £518k in 2014. It is now on a £10 million Ferrari 250 SWB.
F 1 – A businessman, Afzal Khan, bought this for £440k in 2008 and put it on his McLaren-Mercedes SLR.
S 1 – This was bought in 2008 for £404k by an anonymous buyer.
1 D – Businessman Nabil Bishara bought this plate in 2009 (before One Direction was formed, so it is not a reference to the band) for £352k.
M 1 – Businessman Mike McCoomb bought this number plate in 2006 for £331k, apparently for his son, who was 10 at the time.
VIP 1 – Chelsea owner and businessman Roman Abramovich bought this plate for £285k in 2006.
51 NGH – This number plate, which looks like the surname Singh, was sold in 2006 for £254k.
1 RH – Businessman Robert Haverson bought this in 2006 for £247k.
K1 NGS – This reg plate, which looks like the word “kings”, was bought anonymously in 1993 for £231k.
1 0 – This very simple but striking number plate was bought anonymously in 2009 for £170k.

These are large amounts of money, but they are all small compared to the top-selling number plates found in other parts of the world. Abu Dhabi, in the UAE, has the record for the most expensive number plate ever sold. That number plate was a simple “1”. It was bought in 2008 by businessman Saeed Abdul Ghaffar Khouri for £7.25 million.

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