09-11-2009, 10:11 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Crawley,
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Cobra Make, Engine: AC427 MkIII of 2004 vintage
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Was just about to post but had to pick up son no2 from the gym! Yeah, that's a UK registration plate on the car, 11 COB, which was probably first issued back in the 1920s or maybe earlier when just a few letters and numbers were used. The numbering got longer and more complicated as more cars were registered! The very first cars were registered A1, A2, A3 etc and then B1 and so on and those very first plates are now worth a fortune (I know who has H1 and that's on an Aston Martin DB4 Zagato!) There's a huge industry that grew on the back of these 'personalised' plates and they change hands for crazy money. That one is worth five-figure sum and they have sold for close to half-million dollars. Personally, I don't understand it at all. It's a car and thats a plate - so what if it spells your initials? Some witty chap owns a car with the plate PEN-ONE-S which when it's on the car reads: PEN 1S. My, don't we laugh.... :-(
Anyways, that's Kevin and that's the car but he's removed the plate (you can keep it on a retention certificate) and has put the earlier plate 131 YNN back on it. Shown at the AC Owners Club sprint at Goodwood, November 2005. Lots more photos of the car and stuff about it in my 40 Years book! It also has an aluminum (?) cover for the passenger side to go with that cut-down screen to make it enclosed in the way that D-type Jags were in the 50s.
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