SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1988
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LUCKY CAR NUMBER FETCHES $5 MILLION
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SPECIAL VEHICLE NUMBER 8 WAS SOLD FOR $5 MILLION AT THIS (SATURDAY) MORNING'S AUCTION, THE HIGHEST PRICE SINCE NUMBER AUCTION WAS HELD BY THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT IN
THE FIRST CAR 1973.
THE PRICE BROKE THE RECORD FIGURE OF $1,030,000 WHICH FOR SPECIAL CAR NUMBER "3" AT AN AUCTION IN JULY 1983. THE OF TODAY'S AUCTION TOTALLED $7,694,000.
WAS PAID PROCEEDS
SPECIALLY
THE AUCTION, HELD AT THE CITY HALL RECITAL HALL, WAS ORGANISED BY THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR OF THE DRAGON AND WAS THE 121ST HELD SINCE MAY 1973.
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WHO
NUMBER "8" WAS AUCTIONED BY MISS HONG KONG, PAULINE YEUNG, HAD KINDLY AGREED TO BE THE HONORARY AUCTIONEER THROUGH ARRANGEMENTS MADE BY HK-TVB.
THE BIDDING FOR THE NUMBER WAS BRISK FROM THE FIRST CALL OF $80,000 AND MISS YEUNG FINALLY BROUGHT THE HAMMER DOWN AT $5 MILLION.
THE SUCCESSFUL BIDDER WAS PRESENTED WITH A VEHICLE NUMBER PLATE BEARING THE NUMBER "8" BY MISS YEUNG. THE COMMISSIONER FOR TRANSPORT, MR JAMES So,
PRESENTED A SOUVENIR TO MISS YEUNG IN
APPRECIATION OF HER SUPPORT FOR THE CHARITABLE CAUSE.
THE SECOND HIGHEST PRICE AT THE AUCTION, $300,000, WAS PAID FOR LUCKY NUMBER CY 3, WHILE THE LOWEST PRICE OF $20,000 WAS PAID FOR NUMBER BM 821.
FOLLOWING ARE THE RESULTS OF THIS MORNING'S AUCTION:
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$ 5,000,000
AL BB 2623
99
145,000 50,000
CY 3 CW 600
300,000
80,000
CP 22
150,000
AA
818
180,000
DW
1
200,000
AW
2
138,000
AF 18
160,000
CL
33
100,000
BM 821
20,000
AY
125
46,000
CL
9
190,000
CW 888
200,000
AP
11
95,000
213
200,000
XX
28
230,000
HK
77
210,000
THE NUMBERS WILL BE ASSIGNED
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VEHICLES REGISTERED IN THE
NAME OF THE SUCCESSFUL BIDDERS WITHIN 12 MONTHS OF THE DATE OF AUCTION.
TODAY'S SALE BROUGHT THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR CHARITY REALISED AT SUCH AUCTIONS SO FAR TO $57,398,032.
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