F1 car number plate sells for record £375,000
Published January 31st, 2008
A record has been set after the sale of a 104-year-old number plate bearing the registration F1 fetched £375,000.
The registration number was sold to businessman Afzal Kahn, of Kahn Design Ltd, by Essex County Council.
The council has held the plate since it was first issued in 1904, when the county became a licensing authority, and it has been on sale since 2004.
The UK’s previous record for a registration plate was M1 which sold for £331,000.
Money from the sale will go towards the education and training of young drivers in the county, the council said.
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