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Hey? I'm just curious. I don't know if it's illegal, but I'm pretty sure it is that if you don't put one of your license plate up in the front of your front bumper. I personally didn't drill any holes into mine so it's not on there at all. Nor do I even put it up on the dash by the window. I think it kinda kills the look of the car. Having it in the back is good enough. What about you?:confused:

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I have been told many times that it is illegal not to have a front plate, but i have never had any on any of my cars, its looks dumb, but i do keep it under my seat just incase. I have been pulled over with no plate and yet to receive a ticket for it, and i have been pulled over quite a few times.

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I had mine off the front of my car also, but my dad screwed in holes for it so now it's there..haha. I haven't heard of anyone being ticketed for no front plates either, but it suppose to be illegal. :/

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I got pulled over three times in one month with the laser for it. I think the total was seven times that summer. I have never been pulled over for it with the conquest. I have been pulled over for speeding and had the cop walk to the front to get the plate only to have to walk to the back. He didn't say anything.

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Putting it in the window doesnt do you any good, its only asking to be pulled over.
I've been pulled over maybe twice for it. No big deal really.

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in wiscowsin, as of this last year

it only has to be visible from the front.

in mn, it has to be on the front of the vechile.

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If you are getting pulled over for nothing but the front plate not being where it should, you have to spend your time actually breaking laws. I found that once I was driving like the back seat was on fire, I wouldn't get pulled over for dumb shit.

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I know people that have gotten pulled over for it, but I got away with it for 2 years on a lowered honda, that I took down to porky's and everything.

It's just a roll of the dice. The conquest is never gonna wear a front plate, I don't have the bracket for it, and if I did, it would probably have rusted off.

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No front plates for me ever on numerous cars, I have been pulled over a few times for it though (just fix-it tickets, no actual fine).

Putting it in the windshield is just asking to be pulled over though. If the cops sees it in the windshield he'll imediately realize thats illegal where sometimes they won't even notice the front of your car doesn't have one.

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Yea! Good point $2kracka. I agree with you.

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I've been harrassed for it a few times, ticketed once (in the stealth, first day I got it!).
I don't want to be harrassed with a vehicle that has a lumpy idle, 4" exhaust, and a roll cage, so it's going on the front :). The less I stand out the better.

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I got pulled over once awhile back for no front plate, and got a ticket.

i just went to a hearing officer, and told them that the bracket fell off, and that its on there now. And i didnt have to pay a cent. :)

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i got about 4 tickets for it in one summer, two of them were on the same morning. I went to court came out with a ticket for no front plate sitting on my windsheild, drove home and got pulled over on the way and got another no front plate ticket. Needless to say i stayed home for the rest of the day.
I started a petitiononline.com about the eradication of the no front plate law in mn, a couple years back, and i still get emails about it. LOL

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http://www.petitiononline.com/mnplate/petition.html theres the link

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Probably the greatest thing you have done with your life ;).
Actually, its very popular and I see it on every MN forum about every 6 months.

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I now own the laser and have also been pulled over, only down at uni. I never got a ticket though.

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I've been pulled over twice for it in my 1st 1G, never in my Red 1g. I keep it with me in the car, but its not even visible

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Hmmmm.......we don't have to have a plate on the front of our cars in Louisiana.

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I got a front plate ticket in St. Paul when the car was parked. Of course this was on one of my shit box 1G winter beaters and the bracket HAD actually rusted off! It was only off for like a week (that's the kind of luck I have). I zipped tied the plate to the bumper after that even though that isn't technically legal either.

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Mine is zip tied on and I even have the zip ties sticking straight out like 6" and they are white ones on a black car.

People always give me funny looks when I say they help me parallel park.

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I used 2-sided tape to attach my front plate once so I could get my fix-it ticket signed off on. I got a very funny look, but it was signed!

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My first car was a 73 Plymouth Valiant. On the way to school, I got pulled over for no front plate. I told the officer that the plate was there the last time I looked. He said, no there isn't. So I got out and showed it to him.

I had to wipe the 1/4" of dirt off of it so it could be seen. Now if they pull me over in a shitbox like that for no front plate, I can imagine they will pull anything over. And this was over a decade ago!

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I have probably the coolest setup for a front plate on my 99 GSX. I dreamed the entire idea up last winter because I couldn't find anything on the market. I hate the front plate look but one of the troopers here is a dink. I trimmed the Wisconsin lettering off the bottom of the plate. Technically it's not ok to do that but the worst state trooper there is, said he was ok with it just as long as he could see the letters/numbers. On the back side of the fiberglass bumper(that's behind the bumper cover), I have 2 flat metal slotted rails. The distance between the slots is the distance between the screw holes on the plate. When I goto the races I just get out of the car and push the plate up. When i'm done, pull it down. I devised a bolt system that keeps enough constant pressure to keep the plate where you slide it too. No need for any clips, pins, etc.. When it's down, it sits about 1" from the front of the FMIC. Looks awesome and have had several comments about it.

I'm working to design an electronic motorized version and integrating that into what i have now.

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Any pics? That sounds like a good idea.

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I will take some pics tonight and post them shortly after. I will post with it up and with it down. In case it wasn't assumed above, there are no tools required. You don't have to loosen or tighten anything in order to move the plate. You just plain move it and it stays. Super nice at the track with full flow of air to the FMIC.

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Its illegal to not have one in CT. However with all the other things that are illegal on my car that is the least of my worries. :)

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A few guys from x-rated have hinged their plates. Works great, or so it appears (up and out of the way of the FMIC when driving, down when you stop).

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Alot of JDMs do that.

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Pulled over once the same week I got my car, got a 60 dollar fine and the cop was an asshole.

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You should have punched him in the throat!

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I use bungy cords when necessary.

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Wheni hit my deer it ripped the front plate off my galant, A day and a half later i was pulled over for no front plate. I wasnt even doing anything wrong at all and he turned around pretty fast for it. Anyways, he just said ok when i told him what happened, but how patetic is it that it only took me a day and a half to get pulled over for something so stupid.

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Here is some pics. I didn't realize until later that it wasn't quite all the way down as you can see in the pics. It comes down another 1/2-3/4". You can just barely see the top edge of the numbers/letters when it's down. You get the idea.

Niterydr- I did look into the flip down/ flip up method. There was a how-to from some guy that had an MR2 I think it was. Our opening isn't quite deep enough to do that. The ledge would have to be around the same depth as the plate. .... So I came up with my own idea here.

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Hey, that's really cool. Great idea!!!

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Thanks, I appreciate it. I absolutely hate the front plate look but it's the law to have it on. At least this way, it still looks cool and it abides by the law. I should have took pictures of the construction of it but anyone with some inginutiy could reverse engineer what I did. The flat metal I used with the slot in it just happened to be something I found laying around my dads machine shop.

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You think you could give some more directions/plans in addition to your reverse engineering statement?

I would really like to do something like this as I actually do not have a license plate bracket for my car, and this type of thing would be perfect for me.

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I ran my fiero without front plate... everytime I got pulled over for no front plate (3 times)... ticket everytime. Jimmy (TalonFiero) never ran a front plate on his... he (to the best of my knowledge) never got 1.

Not a problem anymore since I sold the car :D

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I got pulled over last summer IN Porky's in front of like 75 people for no front plate, but they were all on my side, razzin' up the cops and such. I think it was just a fix it ticket, IIRC.

the cops were looking for anything at that point, but if they had looked anywhere besides my car, they would have seen 10 camero's and a bunch of other cars w/out a frontal plate.

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I will draw up a blueprint of it using the Microsoft paint program and post it on here. It won't be until tommorow though.

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Cool, thanks!!