Miata Mailing List: January 1993, Message #145
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Subject: Re: Front License Plate
   Date: (none)

On Thu, 28 Jan 1993, Gary Fischman wrote:
> Front license plate?  Never!  It totally ruins the lines of the car.  I live
> in NJ where a front plate is required.  But I only put it on the car for about
> 1 hour every year when I take it for state inspection.  In almost 3 years, I
> haven't gotten a ticket or even a warning.  Even if I do, its worth an 
> occasional $25 ticket to keep the car looking good.  I suspect most cops are
> sympathetic to the cause.  Besides you could always say "The damned thing fell
> off and I haven't gotten it replaced yet."

That's what I've always said too.  I did get a ticket for it once.  But
that was because when the cop came up to the car to lie to me about
clocking me with radar, I was sitting there pointedly looking at the radar
detector on the dash (which hadn't made a sound).  I could see the wheels
turning in her head... after about 20 seconds of thought she said she was
giving me a ticket for the missing front plate.  She didn't even ask me
where the missing plate was...  :-)

That experience really shook what confidence I had left in the honesty of
cops.  She definitely had every intention of telling me she had used radar
when she really hadn't.  I was glad I had the radar detector out that day. 

-Andy

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