Too bad I can't offer you any of the above. I'm still working on uploading them. Bear with me, okay? Meanwhile, pour yourself a refreshing mug of coffee and snag a virtual treat off the tray there. Say... do you own a 'vanity' license plate? Here's a young fellow who has a thing for them and he just picked up a new, rather expensive one...
The country's most expensive license plate now belongs to a rich Assumption University student who paid 25 million baht at auction for the right to affix it to his rather ordinary sedan.
The price tag for 1กก 1111 easily broke the previous record of 11 million baht set 11 years ago at the Land Transport Department's auction on March 15.
Mr Thanapat said he was delighted to win the auction and felt the plate was ''not that expensive'', given that he had put aside 50 million baht to go up against other bidders.
He said he was determined to own this plate because it has seven ''1s'' in total, because ก (kor kai) is also the first letter in the Thai alphabet.
His win was not a surprise for his family.
''My family has taken part in auctions for auspicious numbers before, both in Bangkok and Chon Buri. So far we have at least 10 , with the cheapest plate costing 130,000 baht, for 1 กก 5115 , and this is the most expensive yet,'' he said after receiving the pricey plate.
Mr Thanapat's family owns a major real estate business in Chon Buri province. He refused to go into details about it.
Mr Thanapat said he had already been approached to sell it, with an offer of 33 million baht, but he refused. He had already put it on his car, a Nissan Almera.
He said his E CVT model car was not even top of the line and cost him only 498,000 baht -- about one fiftieth of the price of the licence plate number.
"All cars, whether cheap or expensive, can have good licence plate numbers," he said.
The money from the auction will be contributed to the Road Safety Fund and other campaigns for safe driving and helping the disabled who are victims of road accidents.
"This auction is historic for me and my family and our contributing to society,'' the licence plate winner said.
The department has more auspicious licence plates for auction in the future -- including 2 กก 2222, which will be up for grabs in February - and 9 กก 9999 in the next seven years.
Mr Thanapat confirmed that he will be among the bidders, but would not say which numbers were among his targets.
You can bet he, along with many others, will go after the 9999 number - the most auspicious number in the Kingdom because of the 9 kings in the current Chakri Dynasty.
See ya, eh!
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