Miata Mailing List: August 1993, Message #118
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   From: Andy Poling 
Subject: Re: License relocation
   Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1993 15:44:48 -0400


On Mon, 16 Aug 1993 MANSON@fsd.com wrote:
> I can't remember whether I read it here or on Miataville, but discussion of
> the relocation of the front license plate has convinced me to relocate mine
> somewhere other than on the front of the car.  A friend of mine has had his
> off for two years without consequence, even having been stopped twice by
> the MD State Police.  Mine is now in the trunk, and if when stopped anyone is
> asked about the plate (in my family of drivers), the answer is "it fell off
> this morning, and I need a 6mm nut to put it back on.  It is in the trunk."
> Of course all of the associated hardware is available to substantiate the
> story, but I am guessing about the 6mm nut, it's probably more like 4, or 5 mm.

I got a ticket from a Md state trooper for not having the front plate on
my RX-7 once, but that wuz because the trooper pulled me over wihtout
having actually clocked me (had the gun mounted on the cruiser but
apparently suffered momentary brain-fade) and had to come up with an
excuse for the pull-over when she walked up to the car and I was pointedly
looking at my radar detector.

Who knows what she would have had to cook up if she hadn't had that
bail-out bogus excuse for a ticket... I shudder to think.

Haven't had the nerve to take the front plate off the Miata yet - I like
to attract as little attention as possible (what with racing tires and
all...).

-Andy

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