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One of our journalists caught up with the DVLA's number plate auction..
Years ago when someone wanted to grab the attention of others, they'd simply throw themselves off a particularly high bridge.
A bridge.
Not to be confused with;
a) Bridge - the abomination of a card game enjoyed by the 60+.
b) A bridge over troubled water - a load of codswallop performed by static-haired Garfunkel and troll-like Simon,
c) Wayne Bridge - crap defender Chelski farmed out to Fulham-by-the-river
d) Bridge Over The River Kwai - movie of yesteryear about some war, so fetid it was filmed in black and white.
Nowadays though, the intellectually cheated can re-arrange letter and number combinations on their car registration plates to attract the attentions of the easily-pleased. And to erase the memory of them ever having a life.
Once the preserve of the aspirationally-inept, KEV and BAZ, who truly believed such a moniker actually said something positive about them, it's somehow transcended cultures and assumed credibility amongst new money. Renowned for their impeccable taste and discernment, CAZ and DAZ have also taken leave of the molecule of sense they were born with, and are pleased with their driveway addition. Which naturally lends a certain something to their discreet lion headed, UPVC-fountained home - built on the back of flogging crummy plumbing accessories to the fickle.
But they're not alone, as, if you're to believe anything the DVLA have to say, there are no stereotypical purchasers of personal plates any more. Subnormality being the only remaining thing that links a vet to a doctor, and a chippie owner to a DJ. Road hauliers and emergency vehicle breakdown companies are also amongst the w**k-happy that snap up such horrific clobber in a foolhardy attempt to somehow feign importance. An importance way above their stations.
Well now, you too can be handed status on a plate, thanks to the DVLA.
People who should be setting a better example, if it weren't for the lure of heavy poundage to add to their dissipating coffers. As of April DVLA are having another of their occasional seasonal clearouts. After rooting around in the attic at DVLA House they've stumbled upon a selection of personal registration plates, such as F4 CUP, which, if you're clever enough is supposed to read FA Cup? Yet, if your intellect goes off the boil for a moment, will cost you a stupefying £900.
Brilliant.
For those of you afflicted with curvature of the spine, there is OK54 LLY, which spells O'Reilly of course.
Or how about MA55 AGE, which, as any proud dyslexic will point out interprets as massage.
And who could ignore the blatantly obvious RU55 ELL? Like duh? Russell.
It gets better.
Quite literally, and numerically, there's something for everyone. Infact, something for the entire Singh family if they're in the vicinity of Melton Mowbray come April 20 - 22 nd, as, if they squint hard enough, MR51 NGH, and 51 NGH will appear out of the mists of glaucoma.
So best ask DR51 NGH to check your eyes.
Mind you, with reserves of £10,000 on many similar plates it's only the Health Service hierarchy who could afford such creative accounting of the public's money.
Perhaps, through impressive business practice and a splash of corporate luck, you happen to drive a Ferrari 430. Well, if that's the case, you may want to prove to the rest of us that this unfair balance can be redressed, as the DVLA relieve you of at least £900. In return for a plate which reads F430 WOW.
And that old adage of a fool soon parted with their money can be witnessed first hand as odds on somewhere a motor racing fan will hand over the best part of a lifetime's salary, so that 500 GP will stand out on his 1997 Vauxhall Vectra Sri.
All this gibberish leads us nicely to the current Government's Transport Minister, a keen fan of such money-making scams, Stephen Ladyman who stresses; "These auction are now a must for motoring enthusiasts who want the ultimate in accessories."
And a good kicking.
He goes on to gloat; "The choice of registrations for would-be bidders is huge, and the income from the sale of these government assets benefits all taxpayers of this country."
And goes some way towards the would-be bidder for P155 TAKE's Christmas bonus no doubt.
The DVLA got wise to the cash to be made from hawking around slightly interesting registration plates in 1989, with a car boot jammed with 74 examples of the genre. Then the registration 1A sold for over £200,000. Which stood as a record; right up until 1993 when someone with a right royal flush was held to ransom to the tune of £231,000 for the privilege of displaying K1 NGS on the both ends of what surely had to be a Bentley.
Anyway, if you're short of something to do on said days later this month, Stapleford Park is the location for those with more money than sense.
For those no so fortunate, then you should head in the direction of Insureyourmotor.co.uk, who can do you a cracking deal on cheap motor insurance any day of the week. And on the plus side, as well as having a deal arranged for incredibly cheap motor insurance - you wont end up looking a complete twonk.
Date - 21/09/2006
