Pick of the Projects

Literal pick of the projects - 20 different Alvises (Alvi?)

barnfinds.com/extravaganza-20-different-alvis-td21s-for-sale/?utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Newsletter+(Daily)

and if you just want one

Arnolt MG (I know rare but it could stand a restomod)

barnfinds.com/1-of-67-1955-arnolt-mg-coupe/?utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Newsletter+(Daily)

Someone needs to find room for that Arnolt MG - Its very rare and its also very cheap at $10k - here's one that's on the road that's for sale in the US 

www.carandclassic.com/car/C1442567 - Just $90k - some opportunity there then 

Agreed on a resto mod... its a very pretty thing indeed!!!

Love it, but just can't take on another project now! I'm sure she'll be snapped up to a good home 👍

1955 Austin A35 Van - Complete for restoration - Interesting registration number - Extensive weldathon required but its not stupidly priced at £750 

www.carandclassic.com/car/C1446823

That's a huge question, and not without its controversies!

I'm just crawling out of post Covid fog but if noone else goes first I'll aim to pen a suitable answer as soon as time allows

Cheers

Matt

I'll give it a go, especially as the Sprite is sold already.

UK registrations as issued are pretty meaningless, you can decode them to give the period of registration and where is was registered.
But for example my old Land Rover at CRM776K doesn't mean anything or look cool, or relate to the owner or vehicle in any recognizable way.

HY14VSK - shows the car as a 2014 model - but if you buy and put on SIG299 - nobody can tell your car is 8 years old from the plate alone, so your car can appear to be newer and therefore more valuable than it is.
Therefore a 'Dateless' plate has some value for example SIG299 is up for sale at £599 - possibly a bargain for Simon Ian Green.

The shorter and cooler the plate is, makes it more valuable.

The DVLA who issues the registrations doesn't allow true vanity plates such as JOHNNY or GRUMPY unlike the US and Aus.

But there are still some really good ones about
BU11ETT - I saw in London
PEN15 - I saw at Ally Pally at the Motorbike show - I think it was a GP riders plate
V7 - a really old registration, saw on an old money Mini Clubman estate at Sandbanks

All of those are worth £10,000+ IMHO

I run D15ESL on my daily driver - didn't cost much, and was an in joke as we were all driving diesel Land Rovers at the time, and none of my mates could spell diesel.
If it were actually D13SEL, for those that can actually spell, it was up for sale for £10K ISTR

The Sprite could be potentially separated from its original plate by re-registration. If the new owner would sell that plate, and end up with a different one, they could be several thousand pounds better off, but have lost the originality of their car.

Hope it helps

PEN 1S was owned by Steve Parish..may well still be. How DVLA let that slip through the net i dont know.

The geographical interest in "local" registrations varies around the country i am led to believe. I know old Cornish plates are very desiriable in my own fair county. AF , CV and RL plates will always be snapped up. Many moons i picked up LCV 61E as an unusual anniversary present for the boss and it has adorned every of her cars since. I picked it up out of the classifieds in the local rag (thats how long ago it was) for the princely sum of £65! The last LCV **E i saw for sale was about 10 years ago and the seller wanted £1k.

Think was PEN 15, no?  I enquired BITD!