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This is the place for some old adverts, in no particular order, the first one will simply be the last one added. Check out the last advert for two very special plates sold as a pair. These are pre Website and from the days when plates were advertised in Exchange & Mart (remember that?) and the higher end newspapers (although I'm not sure how the Sunday Express achieved that status...)

Ad from October 1982 offering D 7 for £5,750

Ad from Sunday Times, November 1978 offering F 9 for £2,250

An ad the RNC newsletter from October 1993 offering 9 Y for £12.5K

An ad the RNC newsletter from June 1993 offering 9 Y for £10K

An ad from On Your Bumper magazine dated 2001 with T 2 offered for £90K

An ad from On Your Bumper magazine dated 1999 with 2 P offered for £49.5K

An ad from Motor magazine dated May 1973 offering M 7 for offers in excess of £1,500. The then owner was none other than Sir Stirling Moss, in addition it was Noel Woodall selling it.

Date unknown but 8 K for £1,111.

An ad from Motor magazine dated February 1975 offering 7 K for £1K. The price was dropped to £850 before it sold.

An ad from Car Numbers magazine June 1994 with B 9 for £13K

An ad from September 1987 wth X 6 for £9,397

An ad from 1980, H 2 for £2,500

From the Sunday Times in June 1975, 1 K for £8K

G 7 advert from 1972 for £3K

W 1 advert from 1972 for £4.5K

W 9 advert from late 1980 for £2.5K

W 6 advertised in September 1986 for £7K

From August 1986 here is an advert for R 1 at £35K and T 3 for £10K

In late 1980 B 8 and B 9 were advertised as a pair for £10K. My understanding is they didn't actually sell as a pair.

S 6 was advertised along with S 66, S 666 and S 6666 for £20K. Within six months they dropped to £16.5K and were bought by someone who kept them until early 2024.

P 5 advert from June 1987 for £22K

December 1980 advert here showing P 5 for £6K. Have a look at the rest of the plates available!!

Advertised in December 1980 is O 8 for £3,750 and Y 1 for £12K

This advert shows that in February 1987 M 8 was advertised for £14K and N 3 for £10K

L 2 in October 1988 was advertised for £22.3K

In April 1992 L 2 was up for £25K

J 9 advertised in late 1980 for £3.5K. Within two months it was reduced by £500 by which point it sold

R 2 - £45K

T 4 - £33K

V 9 - £17.2K

H 5 for £20K in December 1988

Advert from December 1987, F 9 for £15K and O 6 for £12K

F 9 for £12.5K and L 2 for £14K, both advertised in June 1987

D 8 for £12.5K from February 1987

February 1987 and C 5 is advertised for £25K

Advert from April 1989 advertising C 5 for £45K and F 9 for £20K

Advert from April 1989 advertising O 8 for £6.5K

An advert from September 1984 advertising 5 K for £5K and 2 U for £6K

Hidden in there also is a corker of a plate, 101 OI

An advert from December 1987 for 4 R for £16K

An advert from May 1990 for 2 P for £35K.

Now this plate has an interesting history, I just don't know what it actually is! All forward P 1x1's are DVLA auction plates with the exception of this one. I can only assume it was issued by DVLA to replace another plate (they are known for doing this) so perhaps it replaced another 1x1 reissued in error?

An advert from the Sunday Times in September 1995 inviting offers for V 0, it didn't sell for unknown reasons.

An advert from early 1987

An advert from March 1985

An advert Autocar & Motor magazine from 1994

3 K offered for offers in excess of £15K

An advert from an unknown source dated 1975

U 2, U 4, U 6 and B 6 for £2,500 each

An advert from an unknown source dated 1975

7 R offered for what could be considered a bargain £1,475 compared to others. However, the early x R plates were only issued 11 years earlier in 1964

An advert from an unknown source dated 1975

L 3 is offered for £4,750, but it does come with a 17 year old Daimler

An advert from an unknown source dated 1975

K 5 is offered for £5,000

An advert from The Observer, date unknown

Offers invited for O 7

O 8 for £3,750

Y 1 for £12,000

An advert from Exchange & Mart 1988, this was very near to the height of the 1980's economic boom

D 6 for £14,200

8 K for £18,000

O 6 for £11,000

F 9 for £15,000

An advert from Motor magazine in 1976 advertising C 7 for £2,500

An advert from Motor magazine in 1975 advertising L 7 for £5,000

A fax from Motormarks in 1998 offering 1 R for £90,000

A fax from Motormarks in 1998 offering 8 M for £49,995

An ad from the Sunday Express from 1991, V 9 and L 5 offered for £29,500 each

The age of this advert is unknown, but with that phonecode it's pre 1990. K 5 is advertised for £5,000

An ad from Car Numbers magazine from June 1988 and has 4 R advertised for £15,950

The age of this advert is unknown, but from the phone codes it's 1995 onwards, the end result was the purchase of A 1 and 1 A by Prince Jefri Bokiah of Brueni.

The advert is factually incorrect as A 1 wasn't the first plate issued, DY 1 was issued some two weeks earlier.

What is puzzling is the price of £380K + VAT.

I've managed to date the advert to 1995/6 but when 1 A was sold at DVLA auction in December 1989 it sold for £202K, if a VAT registered company bought it then this dropped to £172K. So, a £172K plate is paired with its older sibling, a plate with the letter and number the right way round so certainly worth more, yet the asking price is just £380K + VAT (so 1 A represents at least 45% of this value). Strange. Someone did point out to me that the UK had a nasty recession in the very early 90's and this would certainly explain the pricing.