(16 Feb 2008)
1. Wide exterior of Emirates Palace
2. Close of Palace
3. Mid of Palace
4. Close up of United Arab Emirates flag
5. Mid of number 1 number plate sign rotating
6. Various of man looking at number plate catalogue
7. Close up of catalogue
8. Various of number 1 number plate sign
9. Tilt up of number 1 number plate on display
10 . People gathered in hallway
11. People looking at number plate signs on display
12. Various of vehicles with number plates that are to be auctioned
13. Close of 100 number plate on car
14. Mid of Mercedes jeep on display with 1111 number plate
15. Close of 1111 number plate on car
16. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Abdul Rahman Al-Kamali, head of investments and privatisation in Abu Dhabim:
"The total outcome of this auction was 89 (m) million Dirham (24 (m) million US dollars) and the highest number was plate number 1 which was sold for 52 (m) million 200-thousand Dirham (14 (m) million US dollars) and with this auction we were able to enter the Guinness records in which this number was the highest in the world. We noticed that there was very high competition between the competitors not for showing off but for charitable reasons."
17. Car with number plate number 1 driving on podium
18. Pull out from 1 number plate on car
19. Plasma projection showing 1 number plate
20. Man bidding for a number plate
21. Auctioneer announcing winner of a number plate
22. Man bidding for number plate
23. Man shouting bidding for number 1 number plate, holding paper reading number 11, then walking forward
24. Auctioneer announcing the winner then pan to winner
25. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic), Saeed Khouri: (++PARTLY OVERLAID WITH PLASMA PROJECTION SHOWING NUMBER 1 PLATE SOLD++)
"There was no competition, I liked the number and I got it. I have also number 11 and I like the numbers with digit 1 and this is the second number I won. Number one is the best number and the man should be first always ."
26. Various of Saeed Khouri receiving 1 number plate
28. Pull out from Khouri holding the number 1 plate trophy to photographers and audience
STORYLINE:
The value of "vanity license plates" climbed to new heights on Saturday when a car license plate with nothing but No "1" on it went for a record 14 (m) million US dollars at a charity auction in the Emirates capital.
"There was no competition, I liked the number and I got it. I have also number 11 and I like the numbers with digit 1 and this is the second number I am winning it. Number one is the best number and the man should be always first," Saeed Khouri said, a member of a prominent Abu Dhabi family that made its fortune in real estate.
Khouri added that he bought it because he wants to be the best in the world.
Khouri refused to reveal how many cars he owned and which one of them will carry the record-breaking single digit plate.
Vanity license plates, as they are popularly called, are a series of unique car license plates which the state auctioneers in this oil-rich Gulf state began auctioning off last May.
But unlike ordinary car plates issued to drivers here and most other vanity series plates, which carry both Arabic and Western numerals and script, defining the issuing city and country, Khouri's plate had only the Western numeral and no letters.
The record sale surpassed that of its predecessor, an Emirates license plate that had just number "5" on it, also no Arabic numerals or letters, and which is owned by Emirates stock broker Talal Khouri, according to officials at the Emirates' state-run auction house.
Keyword wacky bizarre

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