The $14.3 Million World's Most Expensive License Plate
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When you're first to reply but dont know what to write
Mr. pear 🍐
But that's in 50 years.
Fyi license plates show status in uae especially and Abu Dhabi 1 basically if he were driving on the road with a 1 plate no one can mess with him not even police
wrong link...
$675,000 for the license plate "6" in Delaware? Delaware is so small that it'd honestly be cheaper to run for Secretary of State and get "3".
I'm from Delaware, we have a few car collectors here and I believe the 6 plate is currently in use on a Maserati MC12
But maybe the guy likes the number six better
@@hmorreau3707 What a shitty car.
@@tylercameron757 What do you drive?
John Chessant I live in uae 🇦🇪 and I see a lot of low digit license
2:41 Trying to reach the minimum word count for your essay.
I was hoping that he would count up to 69
Even stopped to say we get it before continuing on
You mean guess
I was definitely expecting a 69 or 420 in there.
2:09
As a member of the 12th Man, that guy is most definitely driving around Kyle Field in his lifted pickup truck.
52*
65*
And is a wealthy Ol' Ag.
Damn it’s like he wrote this comment at the time this comment had 22 likes
157*
I’m from Delaware, my grandmother has a 4 digit plate and she regularly has people offering to buy it off her for 5 figures around here. People really go crazy for low numbers here
Jacob Degenaro I want to believe you but I think if she really did get an offer for that much she would sell it
@@ghostwave5252 some people can hold some sort of sentimental value to certain numbers, so they wouldn't wanna sell it. or they just don't require the money
@@tori9664 nah he's lying
@@ghostwave5252 to each his own
I'm glad I don't live in Delaware. I don't care what my license plate number is, as long as it doesn't spell something off-color. I prefer anonymity.
can we get another episode on bricks please?
Jack Soderlund yes
And the halls, too.
Aren’t all of hai’s videos on these topics?
^ nobody tell him
Yes I am aware that all of hai’s videos are about bricks now what is the issue
@1:18 "To fix this INITIAL issue". Underrated pun right there :P.
i don't get it...
@@wonderofu8073 It's an issue about INITIALS ( the letters in front or behind names),
It's also one of the INITIAL (first) issues this video looked at ;).
The issue occurred in the beginning (INITIALly) because of too many similar INITIALs :P
want to die NY intially required car owners to use their initials on the plates. However, problems arose as more and more owners shared the same initials. To combat that issue the state started issuing assigned plates randomly.
Why is it underrated?
License plate: $14.3 M
Camera: $10
This is the weirdest "steal their look" I've ever seen.
Hodl my RENMINBI token (Ravencoin) lol
man predicted nfts
Nothing better than owning a Crown Vic and having the license plate "NOTACOP"
would be cool to have "MAYBACOP"
i bet the military owns the number plate *AREA51*
The "Area 51" plate in Nevada is actually owned by a guy named Elwood Petty, on his 2012 BMW 335is.
@@NorthernNewEnglandDashcam bruh
I am missing out one something big here. Wtf is with this Area 51 thing? I mean, I can search it up, but might as well be social while at it.
Hi Im APOP it's a super boring place that doesn't exist, but if it did it would be in Nevada and the government would test all their secret technology there, but it doesn't exist so they don't.
@@crimsonnite9291 Ok :v
When your license plate is 42068
We were on the verge of greatness, we were *this* close
And that's one number off from my phones passcode.
Marylandbrony is it 42067?
The Great CooLite I don’t know but I know someone is making a lot of money off of dumb people paying for a specific license plate.
@@Sam42069 Good guess but actually no.
@@Marylandbrony 42070?
What most people might not know is that the UAE plates were sold as part of an auction that gives the proceedings to charity.
that's pretty cool
Gig ‘em lol. I saw that guy driving around town one time, in an older Audi. Apparently the gentleman who actually purchased the “12THMAN” plate at auction did so in order to give it to Purple Heart recipient and Iraqi War veteran Dan Moran.
Pretty neat stuff if you ask me.
to be fair, your license plate might be an investment that pays off if you sell it later.
I'd say speculation. No assurance that anybody will want to pay more than you did.
noisycarlos As a Delawarean, I can confirm that a lot of people will pay a higher amount for certain plates.
You are betting that people in the future will be richer and crazier than you are now :D not the worst bet to make :D
@@noisycarlos sure, for one of the delaware plates, but not for 14 mil 😂😂😂
It depends, you'd need to score something that will either remain relevant, or will be relevant when you go to sell it. Plus you need to take the time to sell it, which could be less of a pay out depending on what you normally do with your time. I mean we're talking a slime profit margin (more than likely) at best, versus a very, very small cost to just buy a randomized plate.
2:41 - 2:56 When you need to extend your video to hit the 5-minute mark
AtricosHU you know he would still hit the 5 minute mark without that
@@davester5234 yOu KnOw ItS a JoKe RiGht?
AtricosHU lol thought so too
@@davester5234 r/woooosh
@@davester5234 r/woooosh
Still waiting for “The $14.3 Million World’s Most Expensive Custom Brick”.
Custom lego brick*
* custom buick
I really like the Irish reg plate system.
“Year” - “County” - “Number”
The year is the year of registration and since 2013 it also includes a 1 for January-June and a 2 for July-December.
The county is the English abbreviation for the county it was registered in.
The numbers are assigned in order. The first person to register a car in that county that year gets “1”, the second person gets “2” and so on.
A random reg plate would look something like: “181-D-49267”
for the 49267th car registered in the first six months of 2018 in county Dublin.
Oh that’s simple, in the netherlands its just some numbers and letters, and they change patterns aviary 5 or 10 years I think
The problem is that a very complicated number like that is impossible to remember, if someone sees a car involved in a crime which then drives away. License numbers need to follow a pattern which the average, uninformed person can understand and remember.
hebneh Thats illogical thinking. The vast majority of US license plates follow no pattern and is just a mix of letters and numbers. The only ones that do are the people who pay for the vanity plates.
@@mcearl8073 Nope. The majority of license numbers in the USA are still ABC 123, or 123 ABC.
We use a system like
[YY][2 random letters] [3 random letters]
If the car is registered in the first half of the year it's just the last 2 year numbers, second half it's the last 2 + 50
so last year there were cars like 69AR JEB
main problem is when we reach 2050, but by then there probably wont be any registered cars that take the new number.
Brb buying the 69 license plate in Delaware
Probably cost you $420
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@@KokoroKatsura reminds me, in my state the "oniichan" license plate was available for some oddity
Nice
Ill get 5151 and raid area 51 with it
On today's Episode of How to Waste $14.3 million
That would have been a better title
That was at a charity auction , the proceeds went to helping victims of car crashes. So no not wasted.
@@honem Yeah I think he should've mentioned that. Greatly changes the tone of the whole situation.
@@honem did not know that
@@honem the video did not say anything about it was a charity auction. So basically we are left to think it was just pure vanity and waste of 💰 money honestly.
"Flushing money down the toilet just for a fleeting moment of amusement"-a very fancy way of saying "flexing"
🤣🤣🤣🤣👌👑
Numeric plates are very expensive here in Australia too, particularly in NSW and VIC. Here in NSW, people try to fake a numeric plate by using the letter O or number 0 as the first character. The NSW plate '1' is said to be worth over AU$5m. NSW plate '4' sold in 2017 for AU$2.45m
"If I believed in cars"
I agree, that movie was obviously Photoshop, sickening such lies are allowed to be shown to children
Cameron Scott I watched cars in 2010 (I was two and I’m sure I didn’t think the card were real
Or you at just joking
@@davester5234 just joking, also if anyone woosh's u they have the big gae
Hahaha
Cameron Scott but he’s dumb
The Japanese at 2:23 is wrong. It's clearly supposed to say "First State," but the kanji used for "state" are 状態 (joutai) , which means "state" as in "condition" or "status," not as in unit of government. That would be 州 (shuu), the same kanji that you have in デラウェア州, meaning, of course, "Delaware State."
No one questions the fact that the Japanese is there in the first place
When you’re just now realizing that there was Japanese there at all
Delaware is in the state of being the first state :P
突然変異ソーセージは自然の均衡に対する絶え間ない脅威です
@Alpha bold of you to assume that
Why does Wendover State sound like some obscure state college?
Exactly. I picture a 2,500 student body, baccalaureate type place.
I’m from Rhode Island and low number plates are seen as a status symbol. Anything with 4 digits or less is something to envy and are often family heirlooms. Both my parents have 4 digit plates that they’re very proud of. Seeing a single digit plate is like spotting a unicorn lol
I could give a rats ass about license plates in general. Heck I don't even know what my says. I just tag it every year and go.
I am a native Delawarean, and yes, there are times when the license plate on the car is literally worth more than the car.
"there is no limit on how low someone's licence plate number can be"
-1
In Virginia, the "-" is considered a "special character" instead of a digit or number, and there's a rule against having license plate numbers begin or end with a special character. I found this out when my geeky request for "&CPTR--" was denied.
1:19 “to fix this *initial* issue...”
Me: ....
Me: “was that a pun?”
How
In Ireland, it is not random. It goes like this:
(Year (2numbers), Part of year (1= Jan-June 2=July-Dec) - (Country abbreviation - Number of car. bought in that section of the year in that county.
Eg. 132-D-6969
(2013-Second half, Dublin, Number 6969)
Their is no custom plates
Nice
d 101 It is ( I think) in the Uk
@@haroldinho9930 I know in the UK they use letters instead of number because there is 26 Letters against 10 Numbers or something like yhat
Whenever someone tries to flex on you, just pull that 14 million dollar license plate out of your pocket. They won’t be flexing so hard now.
Me: watches HAI video about a $14.3 million dollar license plate.
Also me: wipes tears with a single sheet of half-ply toilet paper.
Just a few weeks ago that toilet paper may have sold for $14.3 million also.
HAI: *you know what’s funnier than 24? 25!!!*
Me: searches up how much a 69 license plate is worth
License plate: worth 690,000
Me: surprise pikachu face
Try a 420 or a 42069 plate that would be atleast lower but equally effective
You ever flex your AirPods on $14.3 million dollar license plate users, just to flex?
Anyone else notice license plates work similarly to any game's username system?
Is their a market for fun usernames in games?
That would be an interesting hobby- create 20+ alternate accounts when a new game is realesed just to sell popular names to the highest bidder.
I was expecting 42069 to be the most expensive
@Levon De Pascual That too
I wonder how much is it or the 80085 numberplate?
What about ∞
I think 24601 would be much costlier, to the point where you would have to start stealing bread!
Is probably "1".
Edit: And I am correct.
america : *you dare oppose me mortal*
Nice php
"Since I like saying things that have never been said, let's talk about Delaware." Best part of the vid.
3:40 the 12th man thing actually has a story behind it
2:23 最初の状態 デラウェア州
状態 (jyoutai) means state, the condition, ie state of matter.
The correct one will be 州 (shu), as used in デラウェア州, meaning the state in, United States of America.
This is the first time I found a mistake on my own on a HAI video!
A year later?
Rule 34 of the Market: If it exists, it can be sold. NO EXCEPTIONS.
@YEEET engineer sold
Especially when Tobias Fünke is involved!
I'm gonna sell the sun for $1 trillion dollars.
So I can sell you?
Lmao I live in the UAE and I saw the number 5 license plate
Asif Siddique I saw the number 2 license plate
Those belong to the royal family lol
СССР anthems No it’s not. It’s more of a “kingdom” or a monarchy.
cool
Nobody is going to mention Bo Burnham then?
Guess I need to lower my expectations...
well eff
Yeah, I didn't expect him buried so deep down in the comments...
We just got personalized license plates here in Quebec soo we don’t have this problem yet!
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Get a jump on the competition, buy the lowest-number license plate you're allowed, sell it later for absurd amounts of CAD.
@@newsystembad *STONKS*
Rohan D get that CAD
@@newsystembad BIG STONKS ONLY 📈
Well, I expected a "Delaware is so small, it only has licence plates up to number 22" joke.. but no^^ no delaware puns today
It started with one. "Since I like saying things that have never been said, 'Let's talk about Delaware.'"
Nobody
Skillshare: Finally a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary!
2:26 as someone studying Japanese, I can tell you that the the Google Translate you used was incredibly wrong lol. You wrote "the beginning state (state as in a state of being, happy, sad, etc. not a state of a country lol)".
the real question is why there is Japanese at all?
"This must be the diversity problem they're talking about with US presidents" lmao
ay man i love your vids.
Funny you use Delaware as an example. A few days ago I saw the Delaware plate 'IS'... meaning the plate read "The first state IS Delaware". I thought it was pretty cool.
God I'm such a nerd.
that's pretty lit
“To fix this initial Issue” God what a line
He so punny
If your government-assigned license plate is too difficult to remember, Dashlane can help...
I'm sure they can...
But why the Japanese for Delaware and UAE? Although I only know Chinese and not Japanese, I can at least know that the Japanese titlecard for Delaware isn't correct: 最初の状態 does mean "original state", but specifically "the original particular condition something was in at a specific time", not as in "the first state in chronological terms that constituted the United States". I think the correct Japanese should be something like 第一の州 (correct me if I'm wrong, again I'm basing this off Chinese and not Japanese)
For anyone wondering, Chinese-language speakers can at least read (mentally understand) Japanese kanji, even if they don't know how they're pronounced. Although not all Japanese kanji have the same meaning in Chinese, a very substantial portion does, which is why tourists from China and Taiwan sometimes can have Japanese locals understand them if they write out the Chinese characters
auto translate because those languages are complex AF (while being strangely simple, basically it's hard for an english speaker to wrap their head around it)
Impressive redacting
最初の州is the correct one although 第一の州 is not wrong.
Source: Am a Japanese Interpreter
@@reimukonpaku in this case 最初 would make more sense than 第一 as 第一 usually is used in the context of #1.
@@reimukonpaku 最古is probably better. Problem with first or using Daiichi doesn't refer to it being the oldest.
2:51 NO WAY! How do you know numbers?! That’s crazy
The commentary through these videos, is fantastic. I have to keep rewinding parts because, I can't stop laughing.
Thank you!
my notification said "the $14.3 million most expensive lice..." and i honestly thought this video was about really classy nits. the worst part is i didn't question it smh
In before another license plate gets sold for 15 million dollars
no likes rip
Lol this is the first time I've seen an official Justin Y. comment with less than 1k likes
hah 21 likes
Haha 31 likes
Ha only 43 likes lol
In NSW (Australia) we also have low numbered licence plates (like Delaware). The lowest numbers start with 0 though (as in 01, 02, 03, etc). When I was a teenager, there was a really old lady (like in her 90s) who lived near me who used to drive a Holden Gemini coupe with the number plate 272. That always used to fascinate teenager me!
so happy I found you! I don't recall of any other youtuber that takes the effort of making deep and interesting script and visuals, even adding easter eggs and intelligent (and really, really, really comic) puns (really!)
What about those special Japanese license plates where they can break every law ever
I feel like you manage to fit more puns in Hai videos than wendover productions videos
that wendover guy sounds like a dick anyway
That’s the point.
Is it possible that I can have "z37b20a13t01t08le" on my license plate?
SeeASquaRE YES
IM THE MAYOR
SeeASquaRE I think it might be too long
Y3S U C4N
Nope, 7 characters only... tho I have seen 8 before, it's probably 9/10ths of the law!
Is this like a “drop tables” joke?
4:08 “It’s the rich people Disneyland, the United Arab Emirates” No, rich people Disneyland is just Disneyland, so damn expensive
One of the most funniest CZcams channels, keep it up Sam!😂
when did Wendover become a weeb
Wasn't expecting to see my university mentioned on an HAI video about license plates!
Same 😂
Guarantee you some rich Ag bought it.
I'm disappointed one of the most expensive in Delaware was not 69 or 420
It will be in U.A.E. because I live closer.
I once went past a house in Chelsea (London) and outside it were parked an Aston Martin and a Range Rover with the number plates "2 BE" and "NOT 2 BE" respectively. Genius
As a license plate collector, this is a little insane
Just so people know they are not "wasting" their money, they are just transferring their wealth to a non taxable, non traceable item. Just like how other millionaires buy art, this is just the same.
I have to say I really love your sense of humor.
The best license plate is just your initials: I'm sure the cops appreciate it
I think they do. I don’t have my initials, just my last name. 2 times I forgot to renew my registration and got pulled over immediately so I’m assuming these fucking cops just drive around typing plate numbers into their system to find someone to pull over and mine is easier than some string of numbers and letters. I definitely wouldn’t do any vanity plate again unless it was on some unique car already, I only keep it because it was my grandfathers and then my grandmothers when he died and I got it when she died.
@@mcearl8073 most cop cars are now equipped with automation that scans and runs all plates that it can see and notifies the cop if hits on anything.
@@danieldaniels7571 I talked to someone else recently that said the same thing so that makes sense. I’d imagine that’s also why they quit sending us stickers for our license plates in PA
I want my license plate to read: BATMAN3
HAI: The letters must be 3 inches wide.
Me: *Remembers door must be 3 inches wide in ST3 and cries myself to sleep 😢😢😢*
I don’t think he died. Did they show him getting blown up? No.
@@appleintosh not really. The same thought crossed my mind as well. For all we know, he could be dead, or he's in the Upside Down, or somewhere else completely.
@MH TJ whats ST3 ?
I live in Delaware and actually work at one of the DMV buildings. Once per year they give out 5 digit tags to people (default/typical is 6 - for reference, I have a 6 digit tag) for a day. One of the DMVs ran out of plates by 9am. DMV opens at 8am.
1:19 "To fix this initial issue" 🤣🤣🤣
What 1?? I weep for humanity. How is 69 not the most expensive license plate number?
Not everyone is a pervert!
2:31 whats with the Japanese
I love when I look at my phone and see "New From Half as Interesting" or "New From Wendover Productions"
1:00 you would think this would be a predictable problem in a country where the name "John Doe" is a common enough name to blanket label every unidentified man with it
Wow that fake Canadian joke hit close to home. Especially because everyone sounds like they’re from Canada..
You betcha!
I have no idea what you're talking aboot.
3:20 nice pun
person: why do you want plates with 69420 and 80085
memer: my goals are beyond your understanding
That is not quite true - In UK number plate F1 has been sold for £16 Million, A1 gone for £6 million. Unless something changes with exchange course between USD and GBP £16 Million is more than $15 Million.
I live in Dubai and i thought this craze for number plates (paying millions) normal. I just had a friend purchase a number for 2 million dirhams 😂😂
And don't worry, any number plate that is auctioned here is for a charitable cause so all the proceeds for that $14 million number plate and $9 million number plate went to charity ❤
to help those poor slaves?
*What my license plate says about me:*
1. I don't even have a car
I like how at 2:22 , when they tried to translate "First State, Delaware" to Japanese, instead of 州 (state as in an U.S. state), they used 状態 (state as in the current state).
From my experience on the road, a vanity license plate increases the chance that a jerk is behind the wheels by 1000%.
@ 4:44 why did it say “makes orphan babies cry”?
seth smith because you touch yourself at night
Yay the Aggies got a mention!
Gig Em ‘22
Am I the only one especially loving the background music, healthily coupled by joyous information?
The 12th man for Texas A&M comes from E. King Gill when he hitchhiked to Dallas and went to an A&M football game going on, he walked in with the football team and sense everyone knew who he was (he was a former player) they let him in. He was put up as a spotter, and as injury after injury came, he put on a jersey with the number 12.
Last time I was this early the show was called *’That Wikipedia List’*
the most expensive plate should be 420-69
Did a double take at “if I believed in cars.” Well played.
In ireland it's the year of the car then the place it was registered and the production number e.g if you car was a 2009 ford focus registered in Dublin (capital of ireland ) and the 500th 2009 focus mad it would be 09-D-500
America: we've stupidly expensive number plates 🇺🇸
UAE: hold my camel 🐪
wait i saw this on reddit. its an actuall thing? wow nice
The man who bought the 12th Man license plate donated it to a military veteran of Texas A&M
I imagine those livence plates are insured. Then again... I wonder what insurance company you would go through to insure licence plates....
Hmm.
Deep thoughts.
Why would they need insured? It’s not like an expensive piece of jewelry where if it gets lost, stolen or damaged you’re just fucked. If it’s stolen the owner reports it stolen and is sent a new plate.