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Linda Lusardi

Linda Lusardi - A very special birthday present

Linda Lusardi and Sam Kane are one of the UK's best-known celebrity couples. They must also be amongst the busiest. As is often the case, each of them is probably best known for a particular moment in their working lives - even though both careers have moved onwards and upwards since their respective moments of initial fame. For Linda that point was a spectacularly successful career as one of the country's top models, while for Sam it was a role in a popular television soap opera.

LU54 RDY is Linda's first personal car registration, although several years ago at a photo shoot she was offered a chance to buy L1 NDA. “Oh it was perfect, absolutely perfect,” she says. “They said I could buy it if I wanted to before they sold it at an auction. Ah, but they only gave me one evening to decide because it was going to auction the next day.” Sadly, Linda couldn't talk her husband at the time into agreeing to the purchase, so the registration was sold at auction. “Every time I think about that I kick myself that I didn't buy it!

Although that one might have got away, Linda is delighted with LU54 RDY. Sam decided some time ago that it would be a great birthday present, and he arranged for Regtransfers to secure the registration on his behalf as soon as it became available.

“It was something I thought about when they first started issuing the new number plates,” he says. “When was that? 2000 wasn't it, when the ‘00' ones first came out? Well, I was just looking for new registration numbers on the website and I saw that thing that lets you make up your own number plate and see if it's available. I had hours of fun playing with that!

“I worked out that when the ‘54' registrations came out, by seeing the numbers as letters, LU54 RDY would work. The only variation is the last letter, which is a ‘Y'. Linda's name actually ends in ‘I', but they don't issue that letter on registration plates.”

Although the idea for Linda's gift had occurred to him two years earlier, Sam didn't forget and when the release date for ‘54' registrations drew nearer, he contacted a friend who put him in touch with Regtransfers. When we called Sam a few months later to say that the number had been secured on his behalf he was delighted. “I can't thank you guys enough. I'm thrilled to bits.”