Hey.... I have driven almost 2000 miles with the plate on. Been amost 2 months, too. I have been seen by ATLEAST 40 cop cars(some could have been the same) and had never had any problems before. I was stopped by my suburb PD and since my suburb is just a quiete upscale area.... I guess they were looking for ANYTHING to stop anyone. Hell... I bet if I were to mentionI have EURO headlights he would have ordered me to change them... they're THAT anal here. I can't complain too much... atleast the porker was friendly with me. But come on! pulling me over for having Euro plates with EXACT character sequence as my Ohio plates?! I will put them on later on in the year.. I will see what happens.

We don't need them. That's not the point. I have a Eurospec 240D, and I think that it's fitting to have a Euro plate on the car. Mine is even a Germany plate. They add a bit of character to the car IMO, and they are interesting.

Here in the state of New South Wales in Australia we have to have plates front and back. They used to be ugly black on yellow but for some time now other varieties have also been available. We can also choose our own letters and numbers. Have a look at:
http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/nd/nd4/ndconfig.nd/OLPS/pgSpecialPlates

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107.023: 350SLC, 3-speed auto, icon gold, parchment MBtex (sold 2012 after 29 years ownership).
107.026: 500SLC, 4-speed auto, thistle green, green velour.
124.090: 300TE, 4-speed auto, arctic white, cream-beige MBtex.
201.028: 190E 2.3 Sportline, 5-speed manual, arctic white, blue leather.
201.028: 190E 2.3, 4-speed auto, blue-black, grey MBtex.
201.034: 190E 2.3-16, 5-speed manual, blue-black, black leather.

You should go to N. Carolina- I sent a friend an old NH plate of mine, and he used it for months, just for the hell of it. His car was registered in NC, he had a euro plate on the front, and my old expired NH plate on the back. Never got pulled over! In MA or VA, they'd send you to the gallows for such a thing!

As a sidenote, we have 6 million kinds of license plates here in VA. As if that weren't enough, it seems as if every 2 out of 3 people have some kind of stupid vanity-plate message on theirs. Makes me want to run some people off the road, when I read plates that say things like "BillNME" or "kidzvan" or similar dumb stuff. My one favorite though: on a new white Lincoln Town car: "captlsm"

JAS

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