As we all know Texas requires a front license plate on cars - how many of you actually run with a front plate on your car? Thanks... Joel
I only recently started running a plate on my Stingray - too many stops and warnings. Have not yet been cautioned in the Ferrari but I do drive it a lot - about 10K miles a year.... thinking of "just waiting"...
I got a quick on/off license plate holder from catnip for my Cali. It's sturdy and really easy to put on and take off. I'm pretty bad about remembering to attach it. 😉 Pictured above is its usual location. T
Carbonio (FChat member) has recently started offering a quick disconnect mount for Ferraris that is easy on / easy off. (Just noticed it, no affiliation) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gfvWasNIxY
I'm 59 and every since the legal driving age of 16 (at the time) I have never had a front license plate on any of my vehicles. In 43 years I have been given a verbal warning one time ... lived in Texas all of my life.
From a safety standpoint, that is the worst possible advice to dispense! If you are in an accident, even at 20 MPH, whatever is not secured could be flying around in the cabin upon impact. That license plate striking human flesh at 20 MPH will require more than a few stitches.
Back when my Maranello seemed to be getting a LOT of attention, I made color photocopies of my front plate. I then had it covered in plastic at the copy store. I would just tape it on the front bumper until it would blow away. I would then tape on another one. Never had anyone say boo, even when I got a high speed commendation award. PS My award came with verbal praise for having a fast reaction time.
It won't "pass" either. I have had LEO tell me so..... I always say, in these threads "it depends on use".. The DPS will stop you, for the lack of a radar reflection. I have had them do a U turn, to do it.... And the other day, I went thru a "local Code enforcement" road block in Pearland. They had picked ONE intersection, on SH288, and there were 7 motorcycles, 9 squad cars, officers standing in EVERY south bound lane, and u Turn, and checking EVERY vehicle that came by! That's legal. Take your chances.
Most departments don't have quotas, they allow their officers to write as many tickets as they can.....
LMAO - I like that one!!! I've had one chuckling as he wrote the ticket, that I had a beautiful 4-wheel drift through the exit of a nice S-curve. Wrote me for a non-moving violation Seatbelt instead of the speed (I was strapped, but agreed not to contest it if that's what he wrote), because he needed to write something. That fun spot is now lost to heavier traffic, repaving crown, and curbside parking. Sigh. Focusing purely on "safety" with such efficient use of safety personnel on our dime. SAFETY!!!!, kids.
I've never been stopped and I drove BMWs with no front license plate before getting the Ferrari. If I get stopped, I'll probably pay the fine and still won't run a plate.
Hmmm... I was stopped in the 430 this year for no front license plate. I was in a line of cars doing the limit. The state trooper was on the side of the road and pulled into the fast lane and stayed on my bumper for about a minute and then sped off in the fast lane. About a mile up the road he was sitting on the side of the road again, let the group of cars pass and then pulled me over. The trooper walked around the front of the car and then said I was supposed to have a front license plate... and then he said he was going to issue a ...Warning, (not a ticket). Why not a ticket? My opinion is that there are soooo many cars running with no front plate that its unenforceable in court since enforcement is so sporadic in Tx (even at the State Police level as in my case). Just speculation on my part. Then again, I was a cop for 17 years and might have just a tad more insight. But in the end, just speculation.
Toll stations photograph front plate. No plate, no toll collection. Drove my truck through toll stations 100 times and no bill. Put on the front plate, bingo, got a toll bill with photo of front of truck. The radar signature line is BS. Modern radar sees cars with no plate just fine. I got a no front plate warning 1st year here. 45 or so years driving in California and all the tickets I had and all the times I was pulled over for one reason or another and the lack of front plate never entered the conversation. My driving record used to read like the vehicle code but never written for no front plate.
Yeah, it's not for radar. It's a convenient target for lasers though, which is why the bills to eliminate the front plate requirement have failed in spite of huge support from motorists.
