Fifth Gear: Number Plate Auction #TBT

and here it comes one HRH perfect for his or her Royal Highness you'd expect to see it on the car of the Queen or Prince Charles or that blond one that rides nags to see how much it fetches I've come to one of six annual DVLA auctions where they sell personalized number plates to folks after that classy and personal touch there are sixteen hundred lots and one HRH the crown jewels of number plates is expected to make a record-breaking price in 2007 eighty three million quid was spent on plates all of which went to the treasury although I don't quite know where in the Treasury the most expensive plate in the UK to date is f1 which sold for four hundred and forty thousand quid and the most expensive play ever went for seven point two five million quid to some prince in Abu Dhabi hi good morning sir and welcome to a little girly high right I'm gonna investigate further it turned out that one HRH wasn't the only star of the show as DVLA damian explained one oh it's another play to come up in this auction yeah it's gonna hit six figures there's a lot of interest in it this one now Keith Harris as he calls you haven't not for a while ridiculous it's missing out this one has she called you she's out the country is she still use a telephone I think they work overseas now this one I've got interest in this obviously my initials I wasn't born in 1993 but I was it'd be perfect I quite fancy they never go it's selling we really ought to know Johnny auctioneering - keep his eye on beads in the room five thousand six but also from the phones so your thousand three babe and internet bid signal by a bell ringing with Lauren at three thousand won watch and learn as a real pro shows you how it's done right I've never sold a number play before I'm quite nervous thanks for smiling we're gonna start the bidding at two thousand nine hundred that's the reserve anyone we've got we've got 2009 with ya but got 2009 by post don't laugh I can see it 3-1 absentee person 3 to 4 on the internet or anyone actually here it's not a spectator sport is it there you go yeah like 5 5 on the telephone that's nice yeah 5 5 going once 5 5 going twice Montana you can't sold I obviously hadn't scared too many people away with my inane banter punters were cramming in as the climax of the day was upon us one HRH to begin with bids just trickled in has no one wanted to look too keen of the early on fifty thousand pounds if it was as the money crept up bid is started to drop out speeding limped on into the 60s then seemingly dried up but fresh bids came in like 80 grounded had bought it I am selling an eighteen thousand pounds howdy alright but off we went again my lady won't fail on five you've been all the way things continue to crawl along until they've been tried to scare everybody off and it date apart from one phone bidder and you don't le but it was all over it's all at ninety two thousand pounds with premiums the final total comes in and around a hundred and fourteen grand nowhere near the record but no doubt ready to be sold for a healthy profit when the credit crunch is all over the buyer wishes to remain anonymous I can tell you is the anonymous owner can't decide whether to put it on his Rolls phantom or his Bentley decisions decisions you

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Keywords: Fifth Gear, car, review, fast, crash, fifth, gear, Tiff Needell, Jason Plato, Vicki Butler-Henderson, Jonny Smith, car review, top gear (tv program), plates, dvla, auction, registrations, television program (media genre), old top gear, Number Plate Auctions, Full episodes fifth gear

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Length: 4min 47sec (287 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 11 2018