hiding the front license plate

[HiImBrian]

Well I have been driving around with my license plate in my window for a while now and I know I'm going to get pulled over sooner or later, and with my luck I wont get out of it. As a pre-mechanical engineer and a kid with a love for designing and mechanics, I am thinking about how I could design and make a device for my front license plate to slide up and down on. I have removed my worthless crash bar in the front and I have an excess amount of space right behind the front bumper above the intercooler. I have also had the idea of possibly mass producing this device to sell. Has anybody seen or thought of any possible design that could give me a start to this small project? Any help or advice would be much appreciated. Thanks
-brian

[polishmafia]

this is some james bond type shit going on here lol

what you could do is mount a bracket to a power window regulator (upside down) and hook it to a switch inside the car. press the switch and the plate would go down.

[SpiceyOrange]

I just got pulled over a week ago for no front plate and I got a fix it ticket, I dont wanna drill through my bumper EVER for anything, so it would be cool to see something like this on the market!

good luck with it

[TkrPerformance]

they make something like that for hot rods. I have seen them for sale at back to the 50's every year they get good money for them though

[polishmafia]

if you do go with my idea, im taking 50% of the profits btw :D

[HiImBrian]

Haha I've thought about using the power window motor already and I was wondering if there might be anything a little faster or a different kinda of motor I could use.

[92EvilTalon]

Some RC car servo's could work. Its one flowed motion right? Were do you want the plate to move to?

[HiImBrian]

Behind the front bumper or more specifically behind the mitsu emblem. Just an up and down motion.

[92EvilTalon]

So mounting to heavy duty servo's that have a arm coming down to one of the mounting holes for the plate. And have them pull upward. If you want take a window track and modify it to fit in that small area. And have the plate slide along the track. The Servo's can be pretty damn fast also easy to control and not spendy...like a window track motor.

[Onefast99gsx]

Check out my old post in this link. I actually made it so my front license plate will slide up and down on a track. The track is mounted to the back side of the bumper. I was going to make a motorized version of it over the winter but I'm still working on my motor build and never got to it. It works very slick. I came up with an idea that it will basically stay wherever you slide it to without the need for any pins or locks. Even though it's my own design, it's the best i've seen around. It works excellent for use at the track when you don't want the plate blocking your intercooler.

NOTE: It's not down all the way in the pics.

Post #33 in the below thread

http://www.dsmstyle.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10027&page=2&highlight=license