Why This License Plate Costs $2,000,000
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- Опубліковано 13 сер 2023
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There is a market for buying and selling rare license plates, and the prices some people pay are out of control.
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The fact that Jerry has no idea what's even going on and is still smoking them is insane.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
These guys are all relatively intelligent, but Jerry was an engineer at one point. My experience with engineers is that they analyze problems in a way that most normal people don't, especially when numbers are involved.
Edit: Really glad I posted this before Jerry completely effed up the question where the numbers were actually given to him, ha.
@@listondavisdude, no one cares. Relax.
@@Decembersbreathno u
He suffers from pricisritus, it literally affects dozens of us!
"But how crazy could these guys be?"
"I mean, they BOUGHT soccer" 😂😂😂
He confuses UAE with Saudi
@@shaxxsuae owns man city😅
I thought the same 😂😂😂
And golf lol. Those oil dudes have more money than Elon and Bill gates.
@@shaxxsas of 2023, it's both. The Saudis and Emirates have thrown equally as much money into soccer.
These guys are like students taking a test. Nolan studies but barely passes, Jerry doesn't need to study, and James is happy to be there xD.
Accurate. As fuck.
Jeremiah going full Mr Bean not a clue what's going on and blissfully walks thru the carnage unscathed 😂😂
Jerry just killin it right from the start 😂
Starting to think Jerry is google
This man came out of the stalls swinging 🤣
Still the worst donut host though
I'd had beaten him 😌.
Imagine losing your $10,000,000 plate because your self-tapper fell out.
It doesnt work that way
To people who could afford to pay that amount, it's probably just like losing some pocket change to them.
If you own that plate (as in that number is registered to your name) missing that plate is no big deal as you could make DMV (or local authority) printed it again.
They didn't really make a clear distinction between buying a physical plate, vs buying the rights to use specific letters. But I assume it's the latter in the UAE.
@@andrew66862yep same with uk
I've always gotten classic plates to match my classic 70s & 80s vehicles but I felt like I was over paying at $40. I see I was not now lol
Right? I got a personalized themed plate. Sucker cost me extra cause of all that and I questioned my decisions
I have always avoided vanity plates because it boosted the price of the car tag to $100. Then the state decided anyone with an EV was obviously rich *OR* they wanted to disincentivize buying EVs in the state, so the regular price of a tag got an extra $125 added to it. At this point, the extra for a vanity plate is trivial.
@@thatjeff7550 Roads and infrastructure are largely funded by gas taxes. EV owners are using the roads without contributing to that funding, thus the state had to recoup the money somehow. EVs are heavier and put more wear on roads so it's even more important that they pay for their share of maintenance.
@@bwofficial1776 I will admit that infrastructure--*when* that money is actually spent on road repair and not something else--comes from gax taxes. And our original EV tax surcharge was...close to being in line with what it should be, *IF* I were paying for gas at a rate of a car doing 12,000 miles a year with a 30MPG.
However, our governor (a QOP) has decided that isn't enough and has doubled the tax rate last year. He intends for it to go even higher in up coming years.
As for the "but EVs are heavier" bullshit, my car weighs around the same amount as a F-150--why aren't they paying "their fair share" as well for tearing up the road? Their annual gas tax is nowhere near what I pay at the DMV.
@@thatjeff7550 You must live in Illinois like me, and if not then we have same problem. Gas tax and EV registration is straight stupid especially since it really doesn't seem like the roads are any better since the hike
Whoever editor threw up the "ASSMAN" plate gets all the points lol.
And ÆNIMA? What a Tool.
Kramer was the man for that
When my friends grandma passed away, we were cleaning out sheds and closets for weeks just throwing out junk. Amongst the junk was some cool stuff that we had set aside. Cool trinkets, antique silver bits, old tools, and unopened boxes of model cars, screws, paints, glues. It was an insane amount of stuff. My friend was letting me keep whatever I thought was cool as a thanks for helping clean up the place. One thing I found that was neat was what looked like an old license plate except it was made of porcelain. I thought it was a decoration of some sort but it had the logo of a local racing team and an old roadster on it. It was pretty neat. I took it home and put it on my wall. I love car stuff. Literally months later my buddy gives me a call and asks if I took that plate. I told him that it was on my wall as we spoke and that I thought it was cool. He asked me if I’d be ok giving it back to him as his uncle was wanting it as a memento from his aunt and their involvement in the local racing team. I saw no issue with it. I thought it was cool but it clearly meant something much more to him. He was squirming as I walked into the house with it pinched between my thumb and my index finger. He literally came with a padded sleeve to transport it. It now sits in their old shop that’s now converted into a small museum with old Fords and muscle car stuff. There’s a wall of shelves just full of parts from engines that blew up on the track. There was old pictures and posters. Old time slips. That plate is now on the wall in a fitted shadowbox and his uncle was nice enough to put a small plaque underneath stating “generously donated by neighbor and friend upon grandmas passing.” Just thought it was neat. Thanks for reminding me of that porcelain plate.
Nice. My state allows car owners to purchase new porcelain plates and put them on their cars but only if the number is within certain bounds. I have one on one of my cars. People will make their own fake plates if the number isn't within the range and none of them look right. I don't get it, it's like making a new driver's license because you don't like the colors on the DMV-issued one. I'm surprised Delaware didn't make it into this video as it has numeric plates but people there with low-digit plates tend to hold onto them. Plates 1-3 belong to the governor, vice governor, and secretary of state. Plate 4 is the lowest publicly-available plate and is currently on a 10-year-old Lexus IS350. That number could buy a very, very nice house if sold.
Jerry dropping literally an exponential amount of points compared to the opps
Jerry always has the blink-182s "what's my age again?" Kinda vibe 😅😅😅 even with his ads lol. He is one of the best u got. Love u guys. Sad I didnt get to see u at Zumies this weekend. 😢😢
He kind of looks like early 2000s era Tom DeLonge
UAE Plates Exposition:
Number plates have categories.
In Dubai they are alphabetical 10:12 [AA] and in Abu Dhabi they are numerical 12:19 [5].
So a category [A] number 9 plate would be worth so much more than a category [AA number 9] plate. Similarly the category [5] number 1 shown in 12:19 is worth pocket change compared to catogery [1] number 1.
Also, all of these plates were auctioned in a charity auction, so there’s that.
who cares about license plates OMG...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@daviddavidsonn3578 apparently we do
The vanity plates part of this was great. Reminds me of a guy I know who has a 1990's California license plate with just the word "ANARCHY" on the plate. No numerical coding like "4N4RCHY" or anything, just Anarchy. He just convinced the DMV that the car was for his long-time girlfriend, Anne Archy, and he successfully got that plate. I'm gonna let him know it's probably worth big money.
Rad!
My mom claims that she had a randomly issued license plate in the 70s that read "VIP 007." She gave that car to a sister who then totaled it, so we don't have the plate anymore :^(
You still have the number plate documents you guys still own the right to the license plate
@@robertprice952 Not if you took an insurance settlement.
@@robertprice952it doesn't work like that in America
@@AdultsAreTalking my bad then ,
8:58 Someone really put a $10,000,000 plate on a Mini 😂
That's insane
That's a good point
Sweet video. Being a license plate collector/dealer it’s nice to shine some light on our weird little hobby. Most plates arnt worth more than $5. I usually can buy them in bulk from junk yards for around $1. Most I’ve paid for a plate is $350 very cool to see some of the plates that are worth more than the cars. Thanks for this one. I got some license plate videos on my channel showcasing my collection and how I buy and sell
@@mentalmodeledjust click on his user name. Then click view channel. Duh.
@@joshuagibson2520that was rough 😂😂😂...funny as hell but rough...it may not be that obvious to some so next time go a bit easy on whoever it is you see ask the question
I feel like there is a difference between buying an old plate vs owning the right to a plate. I've got some old plates but I don't think I could just register them again. But I have no idea.
There defiantly is a difference between buying an expensive wall hanger Vs, buying an old plate to use on your car, most states offer a program call YOM or year of manufacture and that allows you to put an old plate on your old car, for example if you were in California and had a 1957 chevy and wanted to put the old yellow and black plates on your car, you would need a matched set of 1956 Cali plates with a 1957 sticker, the plates year needs to match the year of the car. Most states offer this program but not all @@0Rookie0
US is plate paradise. I collect park related and aussie plates. Most current plates tops around 300 bucks.
Here in Alaska I've seen the non-personalized plates "GET 420" and "JET 911". I wonder how much they'd go for...
LMFAO that's some real dark humor right there
@apophisstr6719 I cringed when I first saw it. If the DMV had given me that number I'd have asked for a different one.
Jet 911 💀
@silverfischdotnet stuff like that are customed for the owner asking for the number. But the DMV has full discretion to determine what is good and whats not. They also try to stay up with all the slang and/or acronyms
@@SykotikShadow those two examples were NOT personalized plates.
i didn't even know there was a license plate black market
edit: i guess it's more of a grey market, i kind of thought so.
edit 2: now my comment doesn't make sense, thanks a lot for changing the title for no reason.
Same 😶
its a need-to-know
Not really black actually 😂
It’s on a need to know basis and it’s not really “black market” it’s a shadow market cause it’s legal.
That's what someone who knows all about the "black market" would say.
Point of correction here - the J4 license plate is not an English (ie from England) number plate, it’s a Jersey (Channel islands) plate. It’s an island between England and France, and it’s where New Jersey in USA is named after. The number plate “black” market here is crazy, lower plate numbers (4 digits and below) usually go for huge amounts, bonus points if it’s an interesting combination or sequence like a birth date/year, 1234, 123, etc. I know this because I’m a resident of Jersey. Nice video as always
Concur I came here to say the same. When I first moved to Jersey you could get a 4 digit plate for around £1000.
They also didn’t mention you can’t actually sell or buy plates either. You have to have them on a vehicle and sell the vehicle. The local auction house will list them as “4 digit plate attached to a vehicle of insignificant value”. Owners transfer them to an old banger and sell the car for plate value.
Also it’s Jersey Pounds not GBP (technicality).
@@dpt21 😂😂it’s the same value as GBP so we used it interchangeably anyway mate
In England you can only buy plates that have been officially released in the past and you can't choose to have anything you want. There is a big market for "cherished" plates which are bought and sold as investments. The best plate I know of in England is "A 911" which is owned by Porsche UK and is always on a Porsche 911 press car.
By the way - the reason these things sell for a lot of money is because they are often bought by corporations and used to offset tax. Same with luxury properties and yachts.
I mean you can get a personalised plate from the DVLA that you make yourself but it has to follow certain conventions.
I've once saw the F1 license plate at an auction website specialising in reg numbers. It was going for over £12 mill.
@@MAPLERO4D20that’s not true you can’t “make” a plate, you can only buy one that already exists
@@RatgibbonYh that 440,000 was the original price that it was sold for, the most recent price is £15,000,000
Not surprised it keeps going up.
"But I feel like you're trying to trick us..."
" *YES.* "
Jerry is so funny! Makes the show 10x better
I used to not like Jerry at first but now he's one of my favorites lol
Can we just give props to Jerry for time travelling to buy all this stuff, just so he could one day win random quizzes
FUN FACT
J4 was sold by the Lieutenant governor of Jersey to fund his estate. In Jersey, all of the licence plates start with a J and now go up to 6 digits.
I remember seeing 5 on a Renault 5 in Guernsey in the early 1990s
I quite often find 20-60 numbers in guernsey on the daily, I am also surprised they didn't do the 007 plate from guernsey
Watching these with Jeremiah participating is like watching a modern F1 race with Max on the grid. "I wonder who will be in second?"
This is car trivia with the same rules as “ Who’s Line is it anyway “ 👌🏽🔥
Delaware has a crazy market for license plates, they are all numbered plates with 2 digit tags going for 100s of thousands, 3 digits for 10s of thousands and even 4 digits for 5k+. And yes people will buy them as soon as they are up for sale
I was raised in Delaware. It always blows ppls minds when they find out how much we pay for good plates and even trade cars for plates. Lol
This is the only channel where I don't forward through the in video ads, hilarious when you guys get to make them
The garage setup and lights and overall production for this vid were 🤌🤌🤌
This was definitely one of my all time favorite episodes. I couldn’t help but laugh along with the crew
This was fun! Something else I know nothing about either. Much more e eye training than the millionth video explaining how turbos work or something 😂
Jerry is like the Max Verstapen of this game. Just dominating for no reason 😅
This is a good switch from guessing car prices 😁 great to play along at home.
Congrats on 8mil Donut team 🎉🎉🎉
I’m rockin the Id Rather Be Driving plate cover on my 19’ Corolla hatchback and I absolutely love it
In india, buying and selling license plate is a very common practice In india and
the market is huge and even the government supports it
Most middle eastern countries are like this as well
I’ve heard some plates in the UAE can go for millions
With that scamming income into your economy the prices must be out the charts 😂
Do they collect tax?
@@juansotelo3996 🤣 I see what you did there 😏, so where are your papers/documents 🤣 and can you cut my grass
@@juansotelo3996 but in all seriousness India 🇮🇳 is much more than just a scam call center, once you go brown you turn that frown upside down
Look up 'Delaware plates' if you really want to go down a rabbit hole. Yakuza plates in Japan are also interesting.
From DE, can confirm.
@@tommyriebel4503 Hi neighbor. License plate 4 is on an old Lexus IS up in the rich people area.
From Delaware also...can confirm.
@@tommyriebel4503what part of DE u from?
@@travisstamp7428 Down South, Selbyville area.
Jer is my favorite person ever. Theres nothing he can't do. He always makes me giggle
Watching this while stoned has me in tears right now. Jeremiah is way too funny
Automobilia collecting is something that I’d like to get into
at a buffet, i personally sneak corndogs into the buffet so others can enjoy them. I hide 6 corndogs in my jacket pockets. it then, is a joy for me to see other patrons of the establishment eat my corndogs thinking they were part of the buffet.
good to know
Do you also burp on the vegetables at Walmart before the store opens?
Genius
@@xploration1437 excuse me what
@@turbo_marcfrom now on when we buy vegetables we all will think about that some random person could have burped on it😂💀
Loving the light bars in the background.
There was a plate in the UK that was PEN 15 it was recalled by the driving agency and removed from.the car it was on and taken out of circulation as a number plate. They try not release anything dodgy but sometimes a few get through.
Why are we not talking about how fast James can draw animals 😂
I love donut media. But why are your videos so short we don't mind watching a 30 -40 minute video 😅
Probably because 30-40 minutes worth of content takes weeks to write, film, edit etc. Donut might be a youtube channel, but it's still a business. They have to pay their bills, pay business expenses, pay all the guys' salaries, so making more frequent shorter videos makes more sense financially, than putting all their eggs in one massive basket and hoping that this one long video gets 10 times more views than a shorter video would get (which it wouldn't). More frequent videos also mean they can accept more offers from sponsors. It's their livelihood at the end of the day, they can't put food on the table with just your happy emojis and comments.
All of the above, plus the algorithm heavily rates you on "average percentage viewed" - a high percentage of people will watch all the way through a 10 minute video, but most folks would jump out before the end of a 40 minute one which would hurt their ranking
15:12 moving the Chang Li with a pallet Jack? Sick 😂
this channel is literally the only channel i’ll actually watch adds on, they’re always different or entertaining.
adds? or ads?
Yay, now we're getting that sweet gambling money from companies that tell us never to say that they're gambling companies. Good thing that I'm guessing around 2/3rds of your 8m subscribers are under 25.
Still, thanks for the video.
Creativity on the edits for the video is amazing know the lord is watching and he sees the work you guys are putting in ,it may seem impossible or really hard at the moment but know the lords blessings will reign over you and shower you infinitely in ways you didn’t think possible 🪽🙏Believe in the father for judgement day is approaching ❤️‼️Keep up the great work ,True story of doing what you love and believing in yourself ,never forget where you came from and make sure to never lead astray to who you truly are ♾️
8 MILLI THATS CRAZY AMAZING. Let get the other channel up there too. Love both channels keep up the great content
Please more these type videos, they are hilarious
Day 390 of asking James to do an Up to speed on his Dad
(this is a long time running joke from years ago, so relax with the creep comments lol)
Yeeeeaaaahhh!!!!! Miss you bro, welcome back!!!!
@@RandomStuffGarage619 why don't you set up a automatic script that runs whenever james upload a video
@@neunzehnvierundachtzig well there is already a notification bell, but what script would I run?
Congrats on 8 mil subs guys! I'm here since 2018 I think, I miss up to speed, it was so fun :D
Jerry really Max Verstappening through this type of competitions lmao
that F1 plate is probably the most expensive UK plate. Current owner wants £15 million ($19m) and he has rejected offers of £10 million. He bought the plate for £440k in 2008
I've been watching you guys for quite a while now. Being from Kentucky I feel a certain alliance with you. Love you guys, keep it up
no way i just clicked on a Donut Media video and then proceeded to watch a Borla exhaust commercial thinking the video already started
CONGRATS DONUT
6:00 Dude I completely forgot British magazines did that that was really cool to look at.
great video as always!
Damn, 8 million subs and climbing.
I had to do some digging thru state pages. I found out that I subscribed May 8th of 2019, although I think I started watching sooner than that and just didn’t realize I wasn’t subbed. But at that time, you guys were just crossing 2M subs. Crazy to see how big this channel has gotten. Granted, it’s owned by Recurrent now, but much of the growth happened before that.
With that acquisition in mind, maybe that’s why the content got a little dry there for a bit. Lately, though, it seems like a good balance has been achieved.
Bring science garage back tho. And some more money pit. Oh and when’s James gonna do an up to speed on his dad?
12:49 “that’s it?!” Lmao Breh
I really appreciate that quick reference to The Bends cover art. That was a nice little easter egg.
According to the LEDs in the back, Jerry would be a sith😂
Great video as always guys❤
Thank you for uploading so much. It's neat and appreciated.
“hoohoo” had me dying 😂
Jerry's laugh always gets me to laugh my ass off and i love it 😂
There is a barn in Vermont that is completely sided with license plates. In Massachussettes you cannot keep your old plates (I do not know when they started that). In New Hampshire you cannot use an old license plate.
8 million subs congratulations boys 🎉
8 million subs!! Wow I remember when James had a fun little show I watched between hoonigan vids lolol.
LOVE YOU DOUGHNUT!!! Y’all are dope and thanks for the vids there funny as hell and super informative👍👍 keep up the great work
Grats on the 8, yall rock
Conrats on an EPIC 8 million subscribers!
The Idaho plates in the vanity animation were dope!
The picture they used for Jerry’s score is perfect 😂
Love you guys!
"hmmm that guy"-Nolan 😂😂
The Radiohead album art for Jer’s face. So great. Props to the editor
I have been here since before 1 mil subs. You guys rock!
Always enjoy the vids. But I was pretty surprised when I saw James on the episode of 2 Broke Girls i watched the other day😂😂
the writer's strike is helping everyones channel lolololol. Great show this was good
Donut Ads are the only Ads I watch fully and I ain't even mad
YEAH I hit the CASH one right on the money~~~ Gotta love it as my Frenchie's name is Cash... nice job guys!
I loved your bola commercial 😂
WAY back in 1978, while my mom was driving through Oakland CA, we found ourselves driving next to a car with a plate that read 007WIT. ( only three letters and three numbers back then) 1978 was before personalized plates. How much would Bond fans pay for that plate today?
One of the infamous UK registrations is PEN 15.
But obviously it's been spaced so it reads PEN15.
In the UK the number 1 is identical to a capital I so it's not too difficult to work out what the plate tries to say.
shoutout to the new(?) colored lights behind them at the beginning. the red and blue and green highlights on the sides of their faces look cool imo.
Congrats on 8 million boys!!.
Wow Nolan with a Pusha T reference! Sick!
I gotta say, I was with Jeremiah on the F1 plate 😆😆 I was beeper typing my brain away 😂
I got the “stock exhaust, Borla exhaust “ AD 😂
15:02 I thought James was about to rap LMAO
Been diggin the “Joe cam” since it’s been out glad to see him outside of Past Gas
Love these!
Surprised the Delaware black plate hasn't shown up. The black & white "20" tag last sold for 400k.
Jeremiah: i mean how crazy could these guys be
James: i mean they bought soccer
james has ball knowledge
I swear, Jerry has become the Ken Jennings of these games 🤣
Please do an everything you need to know on the Lexus GS400. Thank you 😁
This was fun to watch.
LOL at the ASSMAN. Classic
Please send the guys on a road trip up the Alcan Alaskan highway! I see the team
Doing an amazing road trip
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