Many motorists have considered buying a personalised number plate at some point. Some want them to underline how successful or wealthy they are, while others just like the idea of driving around with a fun or cheeky number plate on display.
Well, if you're interested in purchasing the ultimate number plate, you had better have deep pockets.
'F1' is up for sale for £10m and, if there is someone out there who wants the namesake of the legendary motorsport on their car for that eye-popping price, they will be handing business tycoon Afzal Kahn a handsome profit.
The Yorkshire-based Brit bagged the plate six years ago for a mere £440,000. Now he's looking at a £9.56m return – that's a staggering 22 fold increase on the original price!
Kahn currently has the costly plate nailed to a Bugatti Veyron – no doubt locked in a fortified garage somewhere bristling with security cameras. Indeed, even taking his French supercar out for a spin must give the car-tuning entrepreneur the heebie-jeebies: one reprobate with a screwdriver and as Chris Tarrant so often said, you've just LOST £10 million pounds.
The next owner better set aside another few hundred thousand in order to insure and secure their new number plate – and for some extra-strong super glue.
The small piece of aluminium with 'F1' stamped on it already has suitors. One Middle Eastern resident offered Kahn £8.5m for it, but the Yorkshireman is holding out for a nice square ten.
Whoever scrapes together enough money to buy the plate, will no doubt be so out of pocket that all they can afford to fit it to is a rusting 1983 Austin Allegro.
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