Miata Mailing List: April 1994, Message #5
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   From: a.mccombs3@genie.geis.com
Subject: FRONT PLATES
   Date: Fri, 1 Apr 1994 06:57:03 -0500

Skip this if you've seen it before - but I pulled the front license plate
bracket off of our Miata, and secured the plate directly to the mounting
bolts for the bracket, up inside the "mouth".  One has to put a slight bend
or curvature across the plate, since the bolts are vertical (thus the upper
edge of the plate becomes horizontal).  If you step back two or three car
lengths, the plate is perfectly readable from sitting-in-car height, where a
cop would see it.  Don't know about other states, but in MD (where the car
is licensed) the law says on the subject of front plates, essentially only
that there must be a front plate, and that it must be visible.  It's only
been a few months since I did this, but I haven't been stopped yet, for that
or for anything else.  One disclaimer:  This blocks some of the airflow into
the radiator, so I don't know how well it will cool in the summer.  We have
had a couple 70+ degree days, though, and the temp. indicates normal, same
as always.
                                                        --Jack M.--