License Plate on Ruf style Valance

[William Miller]

I've got the B&B cooler, brake ducts and rubber splitter done on the fiberglass valance. Last thing to figure out is the license plate bracket.

Please show me yours. I hate to ruin the looks but I guess I don't want tickets either.

[Bill Verburg]

Heres' mine

[Yellowbird RS]

I don't have front license plate in my car

some pics. of CTR w/LP


euro style

[Ashley Bowler]

Not exactly RUF ...but I wouldn't have a clue where to put a front plate. I think in L.A., its just a matter of time until I'm "told" to put one on.

[charlesbahn]

Yup- just got a warning for not having the front tag on in Maryland. I think it would have been a ticket, but fortunately I had the license plate with me and told the officer I had just gotten the car (just a little white lie) and didn't know where to put it.

My car is just like yours Ashley Bower, I guess we're going to have to come up with something clever.

[William Miller]

My car is just getting the valance and will keep the SC Bumper.
My thought was to mount it low, simular to the stock location, but I'll have to make a bracket to span over the grill. I think the 4 holes in the plate will possibly line up just above and below the opening. I need to come up with an attachment method so it doesn't screw up the fiberglass. I'll just take the plate off when I go to the track.
Anybody got some ideas for the fastners that will work in fibreglass so I won't have to get to the back side?

[umgang]

How can you bear to disfigure your car? Isn't it better to lie, ..er I mean "compromise the truth" to a cop? People who own Porsches tend to be pretty creative. I bald face lied right to a state trooper who was on a jag, told him it was a european car and oil lines etc are routed behind there, making it very difficult to mount, but...we are working on a solution.HA!
Nick

[charlesbahn]

I was told if I was stopped again and it wasn't on the front of the car I'd get a ticket.

[Wavey]

Originally posted by William Miller
Anybody got some ideas for the fastners that will work in fibreglass so I won't have to get to the back side?

Couple of ideas -

There are Pop-rivet style inserts available that might work, but not sure if you can get them large enough to hold the plate. You would drill a hole through the f/g, install the threaded insert from the outside using a poprivet gun, then you're left with a threaded boss you can install a machine screw in. You'd probably want at least 3/16" screws, 1/4" would be better.

Or, there are expanding rubber plugs, which have a rubber washer face with a tube behind it; the tube has a threaded metal insert and when you tighten a screw into it the rubber expands and grips from the back. When you took the plate off you'd be left with the holes in the f/g.

Or, you could install a bolt through the back with a washer/nut to hold it in place from the front, then use an acorn nut to hold the plate on.

[Spede]