Sunday shopping spotting

[batman]

Pulled out of my street off to the supermarket this morning on a cold Sunday in Melbourne & pull up right behind a nice silver grey 250 with red interior. The two gents parked in the high street. Nice plates. Is he a member of our group I wonder?

[Flyair]

Mark,
Very nice encounter... the plate itself is a great add-on.
Can you in Australia get numbers of your choice?
 

[batman]

Yes - Stan you can. Of course there will only be one plate with, for example a plate with 280 SL or 250 SL. In fact plates can be handed down within families or you can on-sell plates that have special lettering or numbers or a combination or both numbers & letters. For example, the number 58 (which was probably issued 100 years ago) was recently sold for more than $75,000 !

[Garry]

Stan,

Here is the plates that I had on my 280SL and now on my shed wall.

[batman]

or you could sell the plate Garry !?

[RobSirg]

Hi Mark,

Don't think I've seen this car. BTW - if the plate was simply '58' it would cost a lot more than $75K. Number '86' is currently listed for $270K, and all single digits are now $1M+. (number 1 is estimated to be $2M .....I saw it on the road recently). I currently have 'ASL 280' which I am not using as I have mine on club plates - might sell them one day.

Back to Pagoda spotting, last week I was taking daughter#2 for a driving lesson when I spotted this car at the petrol station on beach rd. I briefly spoke to the elderly gentleman owner and learned he purchased the car from new!!!
It didn't have the headlight notches and he admitted he had replaced items with non-original parts such as the horn pad on the steering wheel. I didn't check the year but I am wondering if it was a 1968 given the colour - looks to be Horizon blue which I think ended in '68. (same as Garry's I think).

I offered my contacts details in the unlikely event he may wish to sell one day - he rightly chuckled and said his kids would kill him if he ever got rid of it........and so they should  

Rob

[RobSirg]

Hmm....just noticed the tail light are not of a '68 model.
That colour has me confused now 

Rob

[Garry]

Its not 334 Light Blue like mine but is is most likely 304 Horizon Blue although that also stopped in 1968 I think. Were the tail lights on all through 1968 the earlier lights or did they change some time later in the year to the flat lens?  Maybe he replaced them at some point as the earlier lenses were very hard to come by not that long ago.

One day I may sell the PAGODE plates. I was hoping the RTA would see reason and allow them for historic cars instead of the current red H plates but I doubt it. Otherwise I could always put it on my Kombi SC