Front plate tickets (L.A.)

[campbellcj]

Just heard on the news that starting tomorrow, the "meter maids" in L.A. will start ticketing for lack of front license plates. Supposedly this will be a "fix it" ticket but will still involve a fine (tax) even if you add the plate and get the ticket cleared.

This bites...I've never run a front plate in the last 10 years and my 911 doesn't even have provisions to mount one. I'll put one on the 914 but I refuse to drill holes in the pristine front end of my long-hood 911 just to hang a state tax shingle.

The parking tax jerks just nailed me for $40 Friday during "street cleaning" hours because the ass-end of my 914 was protruding less than 3 inches out of the end of my driveway into the gutter. I hate this crap!!!



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Chris C.
73 914 2.0
70 911E Targa
campbell.chris@gte.net

[mideastmafia]

here in SD they have been giving out tickets for no front plate up the hoo haa. they just walk around public parking lots giving tickets. if i were you, i would carry a baseball bat in your car.. break the *****es legs.

its because of those new cameras they got at the intersections that snap your pic when you run the red light.


SHAUN

[Wayne 962]

There isn't a grandfather clause? I have an original black-plate on my 356 - I don't have a front plate - never came with the car...

-Wayne

[Jack Olsen]

If it gives me the slightest chance of beating the enforcement cameras, I'll happily jump into the next higher vanity 'tax' bracket.

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[SteveStromberg]

I have been make front plates for my cars that do not have them. I use the back plate as a mold. Using GRP, I wax the back of the plate and apply the GRP. When it is dry I paint with paint that I have mixed up at the hardware store to match the color of the plate using their color computer. You cant tell from 5ft away that the DMV didnt issue the plate. Steve

[Don Plumley]

Wouldn't this be illegal - making a copy of a government-issued license plate? I'm not overly conformist (I have a technically illegal cover over my front plate), but this seems like a good way to make a small problem into a big problem. Don

[pwd72s]

Run a bra on your longnose. I do. It has a pocket sewn into it with a clear plastic panel. I slip the plate in it. Have done so for decades now, never a ticket for no front plate, and ZERO holes in my gorgeous '72S steel spoiler. Meter maids don't like having to walk to the rear of the car to write a ticket, you see....if they had to do that, why...they might be tired by the end of the day.

[atr911]

In ontario (Canada) it is required by ALL cars to have a front plate. However, if you dont' want to drill holes, you can (here in ontario anyways) put the license on your dash so they can see it through the window.

I wouldn't drill any holes in my baby, pay the fine

Adam Roseneck

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1978 911SC 3.0
roseneck@cyberbeach.net

[atr911]

or just use duck tape....

quack quack

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1978 911SC 3.0
roseneck@cyberbeach.net

[John Rogers]

It seems if you can prove that your car only had ONE plate issued??? Then you only need one. Check the DMV code at:
http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d03/vc5200.htm

[Jim T]

John, interesting angle, but I don't think it would work. I think that rule is talking about when, as a matter of course, only one plate is issued for a type of vehicle, like a motorcycle, it goes on the back.

For a car, if you tried to use that rule, they would almost certainly say that 2 plates were issued for the car, because for a car, two plates should always be issued. The rule does not really say that if the DMV screws up and only issues one plate for a vehicle that should have two, that vehicle becomes exempt from the 2 plate rule.

The PO of one of my old cars got a "no front plate ticket" and he did not have the front plate anymore. He had to have new plates issued. Kind of a bummer, because that meant he had to dump his old blue and yellow california plate and put on the new, plain reflectorized ones.

[motion]

They come near my single-plated garage queen and I'll sick my damn dog on em!

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-Richard
'84 Carrera Cabriolet
'74 911 Widebody 3.6 Project

[movin]

I don't think they have jurisdiction on private property = park in a private parking lot. You end up still paying!

[SteveStromberg]

It might be but you really can't tell I did the first one so that I would not have to give up my black and yellow plate,.The black and yellow plates were ez to match, the blue was harded thats why I went to hardware store to match the colors with the paint scanner. If you need to know the yellow is a sunset yellow. Steve

[mideastmafia]

at my fathers car dealership, the had plates that had magnets one the back to strap onto cars being test driven.

you could always go like that


SHAUN