No one wants a front plate. For those of us in front-plate-states, there's always that dilema on whether to go without the front plate and risk the fix-it ticket. But it's actually slightly more risky than that; Could the lack of a front plate get you pulled over in the first place, where he might have let you go if you had it. Like, maybe you're speeding some, but not enough to bother with.. ahh but then.. he's thinking.. they're taunting me by running without a front plate.

Let's guess.. maybe, what.. half of all sports car owners in front plate states go for it?? It's very popular to go without. I certainly debated it for a long time. From day one, I've ground off the lip edge border of my car's plates, just to make the plate less bulbous. Took it as far as I thought I could, without a cop noticing that I'd "cut into a license plate" .. "Ahh.. what's this??!". There's no statute against it, or sentence.. "though shalt not maul state license plates".

Then I saw one of those ads in Bimmer mag for Bimmian products. They offer custom euro license plates. You give them your state license plate numbers and they make you a Euro plate. Then after that, I noticed how some of the cars in the mag had front plates from states where they put the tags (year / month stickers) up along the top row, instead of the bottom row like in my state.

Ok, that did it. I decided I'd turn my front plate into a "mini Euro plate". Went to the DMV, told them I'd accidentally damaged my tags / stickers and needed new ones. Paid $10 for a new set. Went home, and cut the bottom off of my front plate, and re-mounted the new tags along the top row. Voila.. a mini Euro style front plate...

Whaddya think? [ It's ok. I can take the heat ]