{"id":4896,"date":"2010-10-12T14:49:56","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T14:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/10\/12\/doting-dad-buys-26000-number-plate-for-daughter-11\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T12:47:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T12:47:06","slug":"doting-dad-buys-26000-number-plate-for-daughter-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/12\/doting-dad-buys-26000-number-plate-for-daughter-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Doting dad buys \u00a326000 number plate for daughter, 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>\u201cThere was no way I was going to leave without it,\u201d says Harbhajan Bains<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"180\" height=\"303\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/HarbhjanBains_180x232.jpg\"\/>SHE may not be legally old enough to drive, but that didn\u2019t stop one doting dad spending a whopping \u00a326,000 on a personalised number plate for his young daughter.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Birmingham pharmacist Harbhajan Bains vowed he would buy the \u201899 A\u2019 number plate for his 11-year-old daughter, Amun &#8211; whatever the cost!<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>With a portfolio of 25 historic plates already to his name, the 41-year-old self confessed personalised registration aficionado declared \u201cthe sky was the limit\u201d moments after the auctioneers\u2019 gavel came down on his prize at the DVLA Personalised Registrations\u2019 autumn auction at Rudding Park, near Harrogate, Yorkshire.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cI promised my daughter \u201899 A\u2019 and there was no way I was going to leave without it,\u201d Harbhajan admits.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cWhile I was prepared to spend at least \u00a315,000, the truth was I would have bought it no matter the cost. It is perfect for her, the \u201899 A\u2019 combination representing her birth year and initial.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He added: \u201cWhile some people may think \u00a326,000 for a number plate for an 11-year-old is extravagant, I see it as a superb investment. By the time she\u2019s old enough to place it on a car, I\u2019m confident it\u2019ll double in value, that is, of course, if she wants to sell it!\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere was no way I was going to leave without it,\u201d says Harbhajan Bains SHE may not be legally old enough to drive, but that didn\u2019t stop one doting dad spending a whopping \u00a326,000 on a personalised number plate for his young daughter. &#13; Birmingham pharmacist Harbhajan Bains vowed he would buy the \u201899 A\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}