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Abu Dhabi: Officials from the Guinness World Records will attend the 'Golden Auction' of the most sought after car number plates such as number 1 to be held on February 16, a senior official told Gulf News.
"Number 1 may break our own world record as the most expensive number plate", said Lieutenant Colonel Abdul Rahman M. Ali Al Kamali, Director of Administration of Privatisation and Financial Investments at the Ministry of Interior. "We think it may fetch more than number 5 which sold for Dh25.2 million."
He said it is the third single digit number auctioned by Abu Dhabi police after numbers 5 and 7 were sold last year. Number 7 sold for Dh11 million. Talal Ali Mohammad Khouri, a businessman in Abu Dhabi, bought both number plates 5 and 7.
Abdullah Mattar, Managing Director of Emirates Auction, which jointly organises the auction with Abu Dhabi Police, told Gulf News that officials from Guinness World Records will attend. "If the record is broken, they will make the announcement on the spot," said Mattar.
The auction will be held at Emirates Palace hotel in Abu Dhabi at 4 pm on February 16 . Multiple digit numbers such as 32, 42, 51, 78, 81, 96, 100, 121, 990 and 1111 will also go under the hammer.
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