fun fact. businessmen in haryana stopped getting vanity plates for their cars because they sort of became target for kidnapping. i mean this is not really a fact. this is what i heard from cousins in panipat. 20 years ago, in my dad's village, every house would have at least one car with 0001 number. at the time, connections worked. but then they made them paid and later on they started auctioning. some of them retained the number bringing it to their newer cars. most sold the number because it basically made them a target of local goons.