sorry 16.6 million pounds whatever the US dollar equivalent was at the time and it was on a

1998 Volvo estate car.

Well if you need therapy if your father's registration plate is G-A-Y-7-7-L on a blue capri.

So then you go back and you're still having these discussions about the red leather.

So then he's, oh, bucket.

Do the boot in full red leather.

Hello and welcome to the Collecting Addix Podcast episode number bats but raise

your bats to the crowd episode 50 not out. What an achievement for these, well let's say we're

cricketers. We're all weirdos but we like being here and talking crap about cars

and there is I think no thornier subject in the world of

currency in the UK than this one maybe that's why we waited so long to to be

brave enough to discuss with you the issue of personalized or private number plates.

I'm going to grab my hard hat, go and hide under a rock and leave it to Edward Lovett to tell me what he thinks about private

number plates.

Well in the back of my car with a cigarette lighter, I grew up in the motor trade and actually some of them weren't private number plates they were just the number plates fitted to those cars and they were that were brand when they were brand new that my grandfather was selling.

Nice.

So for me, the number plates always had a bit of a story and it went where it's attached to that person

or that particular car and a lot of people call their

cars by their number plates that's how like cut seven would be a good example of the jaguer racing car.

You know you sort you don't refer to it as the chassis number it's cut seven.

So I don't have a problem with them like you Christopher. There's also the

humorous side of number plates and I told you growing up as a child going to the British

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