Front number plate placement

[rms427]

The original steet cars like mine have a spring loaded license plate bracket that attaches to the lower portion of the bumper hoop. It folds down as you drive and pops up when you stop. I have been stopped numerous times for a lack of a license plate while driving by police but have never been given a ticket.

While driving on our honeymoon (1970) we were stopped twice. We drove about 1400 miles from Southern California to Northern California and back. The first time the officer stopped us and saw the license plate up, after we stopped, he apologized and let us go. My wife started to tell him what happened and I just told her to keep quite. The second time the fellow watched us drive by and followed us for 20 miles to see if we would speed. He kept ducking behind trucks. He then drove past us and looked in his rear view mirror to make sure that there wasn't a front license. He pulled behind us and put on the lights. I was a bit pissed that he followed us for 20 minutes and to make sure the license would flip back up I jumped on the brakes. To avoid us he drove off the road. He was mad about going into the ditch and asked me where my front plate was. I told him it was right up front. When he looked there it was. He kicked it and it folded back against the spring. He asked if I thought I was being funny and I told him that's the way the car came from the factory (true) and he then told me since he was such a nice guy he was going to let me go. Ya, right.