masha Posted February 21, 2001 Share Posted February 21, 2001 Wanted cheap and cheerful A7 or B7 number plate A77 and A777 also considered, but its for am '85 B-reg so it must be something like A7ABC or ABC7A configuration (ie C7 D7 H7 K7 etc is too new for me to transfer to the car unfortunately). thanks best to email me direct to masha@canterbury.gov.uk or tel 01227 379190 me at home eves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev Rayner Posted February 21, 2001 Share Posted February 21, 2001 Hi, For an A7 or B7 number plate you could try Exchange & Mart at: http://www.ixm.co.uk/cgi-bin/plates-search.pl?first=0&id=%22%22&letters=A7&push.x=11&push.y=5 or http://www.ixm.co.uk/cgi-bin/plates-search.pl?first=0&id=%22%22&letters=B7&push.x=11&push.y=5 Not too sure how cheap they might be ! Kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Lydford Posted February 21, 2001 Share Posted February 21, 2001 go to .... http://www.dvla-som.co.uk they have lots and lota of A7 plates, from £250 and I think that includes the transfer fee. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masha Posted March 12, 2001 Author Share Posted March 12, 2001 Thanks everyone A7DUO purchased this week - thanks for your advice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Number Six Posted March 12, 2001 Share Posted March 12, 2001 Good one, that's a pretty famous number! Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murph7355 Posted March 12, 2001 Share Posted March 12, 2001 Andy - the Caterham number was just '7DUO' I think... Still a nice no. though. C7 AJM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Number Six Posted March 12, 2001 Share Posted March 12, 2001 Yeah you'r right Andy. I wondered why Caterham were letting it go - not! A bit like Porsche who always put 911 HUL on all their road test cars. I used to own A7BDG myself - still some good A7 no.s at dvla.com Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murph7355 Posted March 12, 2001 Share Posted March 12, 2001 It does say the number's negotiable. Which I suppose means if you have to ask how much they want for it... I always wondered what the HUL bit was about on the 911 plate. Maybe all the better ones had already gone? C7 AJM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Number Six Posted March 12, 2001 Share Posted March 12, 2001 911 HUL goes back to the early days at the Isleworth showrooms and was in the early "Motor Sport" tests etc. so Porsche simply transfer the reg. no. to each demonstrator just like Caterham and I'm sure some othet car companies too. Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masha Posted March 12, 2001 Author Share Posted March 12, 2001 re. 7 DUO - I noticed that Caterham were willing to sell this plate with the R500 chassis no.1 that is up for sale for £25,000 at the moment. the plate is extra and "negotiable" - I've heard a rumour they would like to leave it on this car and may take an offer of around £5000 on top of the £25000 for the car. I think they should keep it as its a bit of a classic plate a bit like NRN 7 that is still on Caterham's 1st motorshow car which is still owned in-house. Admitedly it would be nice to own but I'm quite happy with A7 DUO that I've just purchased privately for now (considerably cheaper at £525), [also I do object to the concept that ANY personal plate could be worth much in excess of £500. Also I feel the plate-dealers are just a rip-off in terms of what they expect to make out of exchanging them: they'll give you pennies for a sought-after no. and sell it for hundreds/thousands later on, so its probably better to trade them between eachother for more 'realistic' money chaps]. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FH Posted March 12, 2001 Share Posted March 12, 2001 Without wishing to dampen everybody with a bucketful of woe, someone has just told me that come April, and the inception of the new 'Yuro-style' plates for all newly registered vehicles the 'personalised' plates will bite the dust sad.gif FH of Little England mad.gifmad.gifmad.gifmad.gifmad.gifmad.gifmad.gifmad.gifmad.gifmad.gifmad.gifmad.gifmad.gifmad.gifmad.gifmad.gifmad.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masha Posted March 12, 2001 Author Share Posted March 12, 2001 Not sure about this but an interesting turn of events if its true - I'll check with DVLA. I'm not too worried though as there are plenty of used 7s out there for future purchasing up to new Y-Reg ones that I'd be interested to buy next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murph7355 Posted March 12, 2001 Share Posted March 12, 2001 Masha - perfect example of economic forces at play. You want the number enough, you'll pay the price (witness what some have paid for the likes of N1 GEL and K1 NGS). It would have been nice to have been in early enough to make some cash out of it rather than paying through the nose for the "right" plate...it would also have been nice had the govt "valued" the plates properly so that the scope for the middle man was lessened and the money could (in theory, I'm taking BIG liberties here) be put to good use. FH - the joys of being part of Europe! Personally I think a US style system (not sure if it's restricted to certain states) is easily the best way to go - i.e. you can have more or less what you want as a plate, even just words. As long as the plate is unique, what does it matter? Computers should make uniqueness easy to guarantee (though knowing the state of some of the govt's systems maybe not) and a word is *much* easier to remember than a sequence of letters and numbers. It would also remove the "snob" value of the age related plate. But there's always the Viz way. And it'd have been cheaper for me to change my name to M202XEB... C7 AJM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masha Posted March 12, 2001 Author Share Posted March 12, 2001 DVLA are saying this on their web site about the new plate scheme that starts Sept 01 with regards to new cars bearing the new number/letter format: "And to those of you who still want to buy a good old-fashioned prefixed registration, DVLA Select Registrations still has many millions in stock. DVLAs prices are inclusive of VAT and the Assignment Fee. Lets end with a re-assuring message for all you motorists with any type of older style registrations. As we have already said, they can still be bought from DVLA, they can still be sold on and transferred and the same assignment and transfer rules apply to all types of registrations." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Number Six Posted March 12, 2001 Share Posted March 12, 2001 The US plate system is superb. Just 50-100 bucks and all the money goes to environmental projescts and on improving the roads. Check out the California vanity plates here I can't remember the exact figures but the amount of plates sold in California is mind-boggling and is dead easy to do. The EEC beaurocrats in Brussels should be nuked. Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FH Posted March 12, 2001 Share Posted March 12, 2001 Thanks for that Masha. It's good to know that we can transfer our #'s when the time comes. Monsieur Six - must be, not should be wink.gif But I suppose it's just one more thing that we've rolled over and let happen blush.gif Fall Sunfresh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Number Six Posted March 12, 2001 Share Posted March 12, 2001 Maybe they'll self-destruct FH, given enough rope.... naw, won't happen, they're all on far too much money and expenses and jollies etc. etc. Kinnock is no fool!!! Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masha Posted March 13, 2001 Author Share Posted March 13, 2001 Good news: I checked with DVLA this morning and the have confirms that ALL old registration no. will still be able to be tranferred to new vehicles in the future even when the format of the registration plate changes later this year. Summary: No plans to make personal plates defunkt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Number Six Posted March 14, 2001 Share Posted March 14, 2001 Cheers masha! We have hope... Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgracing Posted March 14, 2001 Share Posted March 14, 2001 Am I dumb or is there not much 7-significance to the DUO thing ? Davebo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murph7355 Posted March 14, 2001 Share Posted March 14, 2001 I couldn't see the relevance either. Probably the cheapest '7 xxx' plate they could find. All though I suppose there could be a tenuous link with the fact that the 7 is a 2-seater? C7 AJM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masha Posted March 14, 2001 Author Share Posted March 14, 2001 Its just that 7DUO has been transferred between many of Caterham's first releases and factory demonstrators / press cars over the years. I don't know when or where they originally acquired it from or how much it cost but the first time a saw the new Supersprint it was their demonstrator at the time and bore this registration. The later 1st K-series demonstrator had it for a while (I think) and possibly various other before it was finally transferred onto SuperlightR500 chassis no. 1 where it still is today (despite this car now being up for sale now with the plate for the first time). I'm still not sure of its real value but various people have bought variations on it over the years I guess from DVLA possibly impressed by the fact that DUO is fitting for the two seats or occupiers often seen travelling in 7s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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