Can't believe you have that plate, I would have figured some guy from Hong Kong would already snagged it!
Actually the eights are a duplicate of his last number. They just look goofy because they are superimposed over all the other characters. I hear the next piece of bling is a matching backpack.
i had a black on black 328 built 8/88 sold to a nice asian guy without him looking at it. and he offered more than the asking price