{"id":144279,"date":"2016-11-23T18:21:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T16:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=144279"},"modified":"2016-11-23T18:21:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T16:21:45","slug":"collector-snaps-up-valuable-gp-number-plate-collection-for-r1-9-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/144279\/collector-snaps-up-valuable-gp-number-plate-collection-for-r1-9-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Collector snaps up valuable GP number plate collection for R1.9 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s most valuable number plate collection \u2013 1-GP through to 8-GP \u2013 has been sold on auction in Johannesburg on Tuesday, for R1 890 000.<\/p>\n<p>The winning bid for the collection came close to matching its estimated price of R2 million on the Stephan Welz &amp; Co auction, while <span lang=\"EN-ZA\">the \u201cmissing\u201d 9-GP owned by Springbok great Joost van der Westhuizen fetched R167,000 which exceeded its estimated price.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Numbers 1-GP to 8-GP were sold to a classic car collector who intends to use them on eight of his prized possessions, said Stephan Welz &amp; Co consultant Jack Rosewitz.<\/p>\n<p>Number plate Mandela GP sold for R66,000, while a Cobra race car once owned and raced by former South African cricket captain Clive Rice, who passed away last year after a battle with cancer, was sold for R222,000, matching its estimated price.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Cobra-e1479917762818.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-144281\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Cobra-e1479917762818.jpg\" alt=\"cobra\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/143845\/south-africas-most-valuable-number-plates-go-on-auction\/\" target=\"_blank\">South Africa\u2019s most \u2018valuable\u2019 number plates go on auction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s most valuable number plate collection \u2013 1-GP through to 8-GP \u2013 has been sold on auction in Johannesburg on Tuesday, for R1 890 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":103819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-144279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144279"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144287,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144279\/revisions\/144287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}