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Number plates for your American car

Here in the UK, the authorities try to restrict the purchase of number plates to only specialist suppliers they can monitor in true Big Brother style. They want certain sized fonts and often a postcode at the bottom of the manufacturer. Who wants that? Big daft fonts designed to fit on standard rectangle number plates squeezed onto small plates?

A few years ago there used to be a company called “States Plates” that used to make up my pressed aluminium style plates. They went bust in the last recession.

Car Shipping and UK Registration

If the HMRC smell a rat with your declared value they will ask for the bill of sale and proof of payment for a corresponding amount. Import duty is 10% on cars and 22% on trucks plus VAT on cost price, shipping and import tax. (Yes – tax on tax – greedy aren’t they?)