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Lexxani · #6 05-10-2009, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by pj67coll

Yes, indeed. Very nice. But tell me. Do you have to have that awful oval plate on the front?

- Peter.

Thanks guys!

Nothing like a guiness, aye Lars?

PJ- Find me something better then, I'll gladly place it on the front (anything but that horrible chrome plate with the mercedes star on it, that thing is jsut ghetto)

That oval plate is a German Zoll ("customs") plate. It is assigned to a car when a car is picked up for European delivery in Germany and is good for a period of one year. After that year is up, the car must be removed from the country. That design ran from 1944 (it may have been a year or two earlier) to 1989 when the rectangular plate became the standard.