A GOLF-MAD Rubery man is bunkered after a host of sports-themed car registration plates he bought cannot be used because his car is too old.

Dean Briggs, of Maple Road, began collecting the six plates at the beginning of the year and he estimates they have cost him around £2,000 but could now be worth six times that!

However, the 39-year-old has been stuck in a bunker because his F-registered Ford Fiesta is too old to have any of the plates fitted.

He is now launching a charity drive by selling off the plates to the highest bidder and hopes to raise cash for a cancer research charity and the Finstall-based Primrose Hospice.

The keen golfer told the Advertiser/Messenger: "I originally bought the first one -- T 2 GREN -- for my dad's car and someone offered me £1,000 to buy it, but I decided to keep it.

"I then thought I would buy a few more and started to collect them."

But he cannot use any of the plates because you cannot try to make a car look newer than it is with the use of a new number plate.

Among the plates in his collection are - K 6OLF A, T 6OLF A and T 1T UP.

They are valued at between £600 and £2,000 each.

Dean has now decided to sell them off and will donate half of the profits to a breast cancer charity and the Primrose Hospice after his 94-year-old grandmother, Freda Troth, was diagnosed with the disease.

He said: "My grandmother has already donated some money and now I want to do my bit."

If you are interested in buying any of the plates, call Dean on 07968 661201.