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FERRARI Is Top Texas License Plate

Filed under: Auctions

At a Texas license plate auction you might expect that a license plate like COWBOYS or GO HORNS would sell well, and they did. But the big winner at the license plate auction held at Cowboys Stadium on January 13 was a license plate bearing the word FERRARI. The place drew a $15,000 bid while COWBOYS sold for $11,500 and GO HORNS went for $10,500. PORSCHE sold for $7,500 and MUSTANG went for $7,000.

The auction was put on by My Plates and the company auctioned 33 plates in all with proceeds being shared by the company and the state. This was the first auction in which Texans could get personalized plates with a full seven letters of their choice. Other choices included BEST MOM ($3,750) and COOL DAD ($4,500) as well as MAVS FAN($1,200) and AGGIES1 ($2,750). Winners will get the rights to the plates for 25 years with an option to renew and can resell the plate if they want to. My Plates also sells new specialty license plates in the state of Texas. My Plates announced that 7-character personalized plates will be available to order at www.myplates.com starting March 7 at 7am and ending March 14th at 7am. The seven characters are available only for seven days. All plate messages are subject to approval by the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles.Texans have bought more than 34,000 My Plates since November 2009, putting more than $2.6 million in the state general revenue fund.

[via Washington Post]

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Texas To Auction Off Desirable License Plates

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Auctions

If you live in Texas and want a special popular tag, mark down September 22 on your calendar. That's when Texas Department of Motor Vehicles , in cooperation with a private company will be auctioning off 30 highly desirable seven-letter combinations at Cowboys Stadium. Up for bid will be tags including cowboys, ferrari, rangers, ftworth and porsche. Winners will get the rights to the plates for 25 years with an option to renew and can resell the plate if they want to. The revenue from the sale will be shared between the state and MyPlates.com, the company that holds the contract to sell Texas' personalized plates. Other states have raised millions through similar plate auctions.

My Plates sells new specialty license plates in the state of Texas. A variety of specialized backgrounds and messages are available independent of this auction. The most expensive are the luxury series which has a choice of 18 background designs and a message of up to six letters/numbers. A ten-year license plate in the luxury series costs $595.

[via Dallas Morning News]

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The World of Abu Dhabi's Luxury License Plates

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

The Wall Street Journal has tackled a story we first heard about last February, the rise in prestigious license plates in Abu Dhabi. In this growing area more and more pricey cars are hitting the road every day and a prestigious license plate number is a hot accessory. In Abu Dhabi, monthly auctions of worthy numbers, (typically 1-10 and 11-99 are the most popular), bring high bidders and license plate collectors forward to spend millions on that perfect number. Lower numbers are particularly prized as are combinations of digits that are the same as luxury car models. The normal price for five random digits is a $95 registration fee.

Earlier this year, license plate number "1" sold for $14 million making it the world's most expensive license plate. Abu Dhabi businessman Saeed Khouri bought that one and his cousin, stockbroker Talal Khouri, paid $9 million for "5" which became the second-largest sum ever paid for a license plate. His brother paid just over $120,000 for the "430" plate to match his red Ferrari F430. While Abu Dhabi might not be as as over the top as Dubai, it is still a booming area and it is the heart of the license plate craze partly because it is the capital of the UAE. The WSJ reporter Margaret Coker was at the monthly auction recently and watched as "9" sold for $4.2 million through an agent purchasing for a man who had been trying for months to get a single digit plate.

As the WSJ reports Abu Dhabi isn't the first place with a license plate craze. Hong Kong has had license plate auctions for years and Russian executives have gone to great lengths to secure custom tags. We aren't immune here in the U.S. either. In Massachusetts where I grew up, low number plates have a certain preppy prestige. Just ask my mother who has moved to Florida and is currently agonizing over parting with her beloved Massachusetts plate "2002" which belonged to her mother.

Gallery: Scenes from a License Auction

Gallery: Abu Dhabi

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License Plate Map

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Decor, Art

This interesting piece of art work is exactly what it looks like: a bunch of real license plates cut into the shapes of their corresponding state and put together to form a map of the United States -- Alaska and Hawaii included. It's not only an interesting piece of artwork to display but also a nice way to recycle old plates. Created by artist Aaron Foster, this Reclaimed License Plate Map is made by hand in California and mounted on a large cedar plank (with smaller separate boards for AK and HI). I think it would look great in a library or study. $3900

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