stumpy01
But it’s just a bit…..pointless.
You either know it’s a 250GTO, or you don’t.
If you know, then you don’t need telling with a number plate. If you don’t know, then you probably don’t care if it’s a 250GTO or a Nissan 350Z.
Many things are, but you’ve already made the point, if you know, and are interested in exotic rare cars, then there is a point, if not, then there isn’t.
If, like Nick Mason, you can afford to have an extensive collection of cars, a significant number of them Ferrari and a couple of those 250 GTO’s, you’ve owned one of them, the one pictured, for forty years, and it carries its model number as its number plate, then why not? Those cars were built as racing cars, that particular one for the Belgian Ferrari team, and carries no model number, neither does his 250 built for the Panamerican rally, that carries the registration 250 WMM. He’s also got an F150 with the plate F150 OK, a Jaguar XK D-Type, reg XKD 1, an Alfa 8C with the plate CNN 8C. He’s also got a racing Ferrari 365 GTB/4 registration NPA16L, so he’s clearly not too fussed, but if the plate is appropriate to the age and model of the car, then why the hell not? None of those cars are going to be separated from their registration, and the 250GTO plate would be worth a fortune to anyone who’s lucky enough to own one, and if you can afford a £30-40 million car, you can afford the plate. If the owner was prepared to sell…
In these cases, if you know what the car is, you look and think “lucky git!”, if you don’t, you think, “nice car” and leave it at that.
And if you’re Nick Mason, drummer with Pink Floyd, I’m sure he doesn’t give a toss what you, or anyone else, thinks about the number plates on his vastly expensive collection of rare cars.
He can, after all, afford to stuff his McLaren F1 into the tyre wall at Goodwood doing a demo lap, and not be to bothered about having the front end ripped off.
