A car license plate for RM2.8 million, anyone?
When we set our eyes (and hearts) into something we love, we would do anything to get it and at any cost. The same attitude for the guy who splurged about RM55,000 just to proposed to his girlfriend on Valentines day last month. Was it a waste of money or a symbol of everlasting love? You decide.
Even the price of the car itself is no match to that of the license plate!
Another decision for you to make. The owner of a car tuning company in UK recently won the bid of almost USD900,000 (RM2,790,000) for a car license plate with the number bearing “F1″ for his Mclaren Mercedes SLR. This makes the plate number more expensive than the car itself! The “F1″ plate was registered in the UK long time ago, in 1904, back when it was just a license plate and F1 didn’t mean anything.
Afzal Kahn, head of the Kahn Design and Project Kahn aftermarket tuning house, placed the winning bid of £375,000, which comes to a total of more than £440,000 plus taxes, on the once-unpopular plate number.
Afzal Kahn with his proud possession - not the car but the plate. 
Asked about his feelings after paying a bomb for the plate, “I knew I just had to have it,” said Mr Kahn. “I have spent years chasing it. I cannot believe I’ve finally got it.
“I am privileged to have acquired such a prestigious plate. It’s every man’s dream to have his perfect car with a number plate like this.”
Kahn ventured his business career when he was 14 years old, helping out his father on an ice cream van. He even went door-to-door selling eggs at 16 and at the same time pursue on his hobby of making car accessory parts.
His family owned a small leisure and arcade facility, where he advertised his bespoke parts - which turned into the business venture he owns today.
His company, Kahn Design, now acquires new top-of-the-range super cars and strips them out before redesigning them ready to be sold - bearing his tuning expertise using Project Kahn on the cars that his team had ‘de-virginised’.
A former F1 driver, Eddie Irvine tried to snatch the same number in 2005 but failed to meet the reserved price.
I would say it was a worthy ‘investment’ to buy that plate at such a price. Mr Kahn comes from a very humble background and has earned his way to the day he is today. Unlike the bloke who squandered confessed his love with a billboard whom most of us dont know where he got the money from, I say Mr Kahn is truly a rags-to-riches kind of story.
Source: Thisislondon
