You have a rich, vibrant personality. You’re up for anything. You love to party. Your friends know you as a charming, outgoing whirlwind of effusive energy and joie de vivre. What’s the best way to express that to people? Is it by living your life in such a way that people can tell just from looking that that’s how you are? Absolutely not, it’s personalised number plates.
Like home surgery, personalised plates are a way for you to show on the outside how you are on the inside. You get to choose whichever numbers or letters you think best represent your entire personality (up to a finite maximum and subject to availability) and share them with the world.
Obviously, for you, those three letters are L-I-T. You are lit. You are the very concept of being lit. Finally, you can affix those letters – so emblematic of your personality – to your vehicle of choice.
Pictured: Oh fuck yeah check this motherfuckin’ shit out.
For the low, low price of $100,000 (roughly an eighteenth of the cost of a shed in Sydney’s inner-west), this beast can be yours.
Richard Swanton, the savvy entrepreneur who’s flogging the plates, came across this valuable investment through a combination of luck and timeliness:
“I bought a new Ducati motorbike and I was looking for a number plate to put on it for a while and it was just at the time that lit was becoming more topical, so I was just running searches on the MyPlates website and it was available. I just went right ahead and clicked on it, that was about a year ago.”
Swanton arrived at the price after having a look at how much cash these bad boys can fetch:
“I did a bit of research into what plates can go for and it really varies wildly. They go from a couple of thousand dollars for a slightly unique plate while some of the more sought after plates with a low number of digits can go for hundreds of thousands of dollars. I did a bit of looking around, I think I saw that ‘LOL‘ had sold for $40,000. Other ones, with the content a bit less specific, like numbers or someone’s initials or something like that, have sold in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
If we’re being honest, his target demographic might not be you (or it might be and, if so, can I have $100):
“I just thought considering I’m in no hurry to sell, I’d list it for an insane prince and see if there’s anyone out there with too much money who likes to have a joke as much as I do about these things.”
If that’s you, the listing is right here.
Photo: Full Boost / Laboski696.
