another one that's nice but requires deep pockets

[Ian Williams]

Fortunately we don't have this problem in NZ, pre war and immediate post war reg numbers in NZ were more like road tax disks and changed every time they ran out, this was changed around 1964 to a permanent plate system. The personalised plate business is well catered for by the licensing authority who will sell you anything the fits onto the plate, this is good in some ways as personalised plates are not seen as status symbols in quite the same way as in the UK. However it can make tracing a cars history a little more difficult particularly with period pictures where there is no evidence of defining features.

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I should also add that is see no real problem with extremely rare and completely genuine cars achieving a higher than average austin 7 price. This subject of this thread is in my opinion a completely different animal to a recent replica which drew a lot of discussion here.