British License Plate: High Fee for Slow Pace
<i> Reuters</i>
LONDON —
A British motorist with a taste for speed paid $25,000 on Thursday for the car license plate number SNA 1 L.
“I want to be pulled over by the police for speeding and see their reaction when they ask my registration and I say, ‘Snail’, “ Christine Priest said after buying the license plate at a government auction.
A two-day sale of special plates, considered a status symbol by some British drivers, has raised more than $2 million.
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