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saw black bentley 1A with escort heading north outside KL. Think I know the owner. First the white rolls, license plate A1
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h119/yee...ry/_MG_6455.jpg This car is in the Royal Automobile Gallery which is the private collection of the sultan of Selangor (see
Royal Auto Gallery Photos). Sooo, since there are no historical instances of license plates in Malaysia starting with a number (excluding present diplomatic corp and UN plates, which must be 8 characters including dashes and historic sarawak division plates which must be at least 4 charachters with a D in the second position) this plate could not reasonably have been bought by private citizen. Also, it is common knowledge that Malaysian royalty reserve the right to certain numeric ranges (namely 1-99) as a suffix for security personnel.
Since 1A does not match any Malaysian license plate scheme (promotional plate schemes, military, diplomatic, or historic), the MY royalty have traditionally had access to private numeric ranges, historically only government related vehicles have had numeric first designation and the sultan of Selangor has a penchant for license plates (having purchased WWW1 for his proton satria for $500,000rm) my guess is that this car can only belong to the sultan.
In fact, it would not surprise me if the sultan arranged (bought) for the 1A plate to mirror his A1 plate. The effect would be a yin to yang (Black 1A luxury vehicle to White A1 luxury vehicle).
https://forum.lowyat.net/uploads/attach-78/...21455_thumb.jpg Could be wrong - just an educated guess - but I could not imagine anyone having the ability to obtain the plate 1A without strong diplomatic pull, given its non-existence in existing plate schemes.
Also for the record, G1M is a promotional scheme (that was actually used to avoid import taxes) so if you see it on a luxury vehicle, it probably allowed the owner to avoid import taxes by registering in Langkawi with a G1M plate and transferring to anywhere in peninsular Malaysia.
1A was a special number requested by the late HRH Sultan Azlan Shah of Perak. He wanted to have A1 as that was the very first Perak registration number but HRH Sultan of Selangor refused to sell to him at any price - primary reason being his heir and Crown Price of Selangor's initial is AI - Amir Idris.
His widow HRH Raja Permaisuri Bainun is occasionally chauffeured in 1A these days beside the family's Lexus LS600L in dark blue ABK1.
The current ruler of Perak HRH Sultan Nazrin Shah enjoys his anonymity on KL roads without much fuss usually chauffeured in a black 7 series AEU1 or an off white Daimler Super Eight ABC1. Only tell tale he has his UTK black bike by his side, most of the time without police patrol car and outriders.