Got Pulled Over
Burning Brakes
Joined: Jan 2011
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From: Springfield IL.
Oldtimer
My son-in-law and I both run front plates. I don't think the C5 looks as bad as the C6 with the front plate. I don't need to ASK for a ticket. The 5 still looks great even with the plate.
Safety Car
Joined: Apr 2007
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From: . New York
I feel your pain brother. We are required 2 plates in Texas as well. I ran only one for years. I kept receiving verbal warnings and chose to ignore them. Finally one LEO gave me a written warning, so I decided to do the right thing. The reasoning behind needing a front plate is simply idiotic. Try reading the front plate of vehicle approaching you.
And the plates used to be embossed (stamped, raised lettering) and now they are nice flat, reflective surfaces. Perfect for hitting with Radar/Lidar.
NY so I run two, dont mind it with the smoothie plate surround.
Drifting
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From: Peoples Republik of Kalifornia Ka
Instructor
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From: The Colony TX
Must have been a slow day for the cop.
An LEO here in Texas (2 plate state) said that if they enforced the law.............they would spend their entire day stopping Corvettes. He indicated he had more pressing things to do. Like catching speeding Corvettes and add on the no-plate penalty to hammer home the point.
An LEO here in Texas (2 plate state) said that if they enforced the law.............they would spend their entire day stopping Corvettes. He indicated he had more pressing things to do. Like catching speeding Corvettes and add on the no-plate penalty to hammer home the point.
She was pulled over on a residential street by a Texas State Trooper (HUH?). He told her he pulled her over for no front plate and then she began to defend "her" car by talking at a speed of well over 90 MPH. "It came from the dealer this way... Why would a dealer sell us an illegal car?... We've never been pulled over with either of our Vettes for over 12 years... My Father-in-law was a cop for 30 years and he told me the only cop that would pull me over was either bored or he was having a bad day... Blah, blah, blah......."
After a few minutes of not being able to get a word in edge wise the Trooper handed her back her license and told her to move along. I guess he must have been married too.
Team Owner
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From: Somewhere in Mo
St. Jude Donor '09-'10, '14
Wow, really. It's not remotely the same. If a front license plate is so valuable a tool for the police, why are they not required in over 50% of the states in the union. It doesn't carry your current registration tag as here in Illinois, (on back plate). It serves no purpose other than having the ability to generate more state revenue. Cops dont pull in front of you and run your plate number do they? There was a study done that eliminating the front plate would save the state of Illinois over $800,000.00 a year in a black hole of goverment spending, (the state manufactures the plates), via private party. Did it pass the legislature, nope. Is our budget balanced, NOPE!. The status quo is easy, next time it comes up, YOU need to talk to your congressman and let him know where you stand.
Our governments, local and federal, are out of frickin control.
Safety Car
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From: Lake Havasu City Arizona
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St. Jude Donor '12
CA requires two plates however thats not something you generally get stopped for. You certainly can but usually not having a front plate is just PC if they want to stop you.
If you get stopped for something else and dont have a front plate, it might get added on as a second violation.
If you get stopped for something else and dont have a front plate, it might get added on as a second violation.
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Texas is a two plate state. Currently there is some information going around that for the time being it is unenforceable.
I have lived here since 1982 and have had 5 Corvettes on the road over the years. I never had a front plate on any of them and never will.
If I get popped, I'll pay the fine. I understand the potential repurcussions and I have accepted them.
I have lived here since 1982 and have had 5 Corvettes on the road over the years. I never had a front plate on any of them and never will.
If I get popped, I'll pay the fine. I understand the potential repurcussions and I have accepted them.
Team Owner
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From: Somewhere in Mo
St. Jude Donor '09-'10, '14
Pro
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From: Los Angeles
For all you Texas drivers...
Not sure if they fixed it yet, but I have never run a front plate or got a ticket and now I keep this article in my car.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/1...n_1098274.html
Not sure if they fixed it yet, but I have never run a front plate or got a ticket and now I keep this article in my car.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/1...n_1098274.html
Racer
Joined: Aug 2008
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From: Batavia IL
The easy answer for the states is to have another level of plate registration for rear plates only. Now in Illinois you pay a premium for vanity plates and the subsequent re-registration of the tag associated with those plates. How about another $70.00 to the registration for a rear plate only registration. The plate would look different, (easily identifiable by police), the state would get their money, I would get what I want, everybody wins.
Wow, that was easy! Next state pension plans, stay tuned.
Wow, that was easy! Next state pension plans, stay tuned.
Instructor
Joined: Oct 2002
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From: The Colony TX
A front license plate on a Vette looks like ****, period. That's not whining. That's just a fact.
Le Mans Master
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I don't know about you Doug, but I don't want anything on my car making it look like ****, especially a "bug/rock protection". If I want bug protection then I'll hang an electric bug zapper on my hood.
A front license plate on a Vette looks like ****, period. That's not whining. That's just a fact.
A front license plate on a Vette looks like ****, period. That's not whining. That's just a fact.
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From: Downers Grove IL
St. Jude Donor '15
Le Mans Master
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If you think the ugly Illinois plate looks better than the cover that comes with the car then you are high. That said, I am not a "whiner" when it comes to front plates. I run one on my C5 and don't even give it a second thought. I just chose a plate that looks a little better than the white "Lincoln's Ghost" plates that are fugly.
I never look at or think about the front plate unless I'm washing the car-if you spend more time thinking about your front plate, maybe you need more to do?