If I were to ask you how passionate you can be about something, What’s the wildest thing that you have done for your passion? what would your answer be? Well, this businessman spent almost Rs 26 lakhs to get a 9999 number plate? Would you believe this? At first, it was a shocker for us as well. However, upon further research, we found this to be true. The number plate was bought for the businessman’s Rs 2.1 crore Land Cruiser LX. It is also being labelled as Teleangana’s most expensive number plate to date. Moreover, according to the RTA ( Regional Transport Authority) of Hyderabad’s central zone, they have managed to a whopping Rs 43,70,284 in just a day auction of these customised fancy number plates.
This number plate is said to have been bought by Soni Transport Solutions. This sale also set a new record for the previous highest bid to date in the Telangana region, which was for Rs 21.6 lakh.
Apart from this record-breaking sale, RTA has also reported that there were several other fancy number plates which were sold, through which they were able to achieve a substantial number of almost Rs 50 lakhs. Another fancy number plate enthusiast, Ramakrishna Yerramaneni bought the ‘TG 09 A 0006’ number plate for Rs2.76 lakhs while another firm, Arrow Advertising India Pvt Ltd., won the ‘TG 09 A 0005’ number plate for Rs 1.80 lakhs.
Adding more to this list, Gopala Krishna Yalamanchili was able to get ‘TG 09 A 0019 for Rs 1.20 lakh, alongside William Cany Sandya Jalagam, who bought ‘TG 09 9799 for Rs 1.16 Lakh. Another fancy number, ‘TG 09 A 0009’ was purchased by SK Car Lounge for a mere Rs. 1.10 Lakh.
