Got ‘CASH?’ Personalized California license plate can be yours for a mere $2 million

With enough cash, you can have your own “CASH” personalized California license plate.

Claude Arthur Stuart Hamrick, a retired Silicon Valley patent lawyer, registered the flashy license plate based on his initials in 1970 and retained it for 50 years, transferring it from one vehicle to the next — mostly Cadillacs, The Mercury News reported.

“Every time I traded cars, the dealers tried to buy it from me. Every car dealer in San Jose wanted that plate,” Hamrick, 83, told the publication. “I told them I wouldn’t sell it for a million dollars.”

Now he has listed it with a license plate broker for sale for $2 million. It takes a lot of cash to drive around with “CASH” on your vehicle.

Hamrick was “one of the first patent attorneys in the Silicon Valley to patent semiconductors,” the listing reported, name-dropping luminaries such as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.

“The Plate Broker thinks this plate is perfect for a high profile performer, investor, or socialite,” the site advised. “4-letter full word plates are rare, plus this word itself is special and appropriate for the coveted California lifestyle.”

California Department of Motor Vehicle rules allow the owners of personalized plates to “release interest to new owner” of their plate configuration.

Other personalized license plates listed on the broker’s site include plates reading “MM,” “MD” “GO VIRAL” and “888.”

This story was originally published February 22, 2023 at 9:48 AM with the headline "Got ‘CASH?’ Personalized California license plate can be yours for a mere $2 million."