Front license plate placement

[AA PT]

I've had my PT/GT 61 months and have 151,300 miles driven from Orange County to Ventura County. I mainly use the 101 Freeway through the San Fernando Valley. Many trips to Santa Monica and all over. I have my front license plate still in the yellow envelope it came in from the DMV.

Now that I've said something I'll probably eat my words.

My wife has been driving Corvettes since 1984 (currently has a 2007 Z06) and she's never had a front license plate on any car.

[Gracefulspice]

I just bought my 1st PT in June of 07. It's a 2006 Touring. Anyways. The bumper was drilled out for the plate already and was not even lined up at all. I don't have the plate on, if I did it would sit off center and not straight. The open holes don't look very good either, but I will eventually have those filled and fixed. I'm just happy we don't have to have the front plate in Pa....Yet.

[Cal Cruzer]

I am finally getting my new licnese plate bracket welded up to replace the one that some fine fellow cruiser owner stole off my car. I will post a picture of the completed bracket and then one on the car if anyone is interested.

[07GTDriver]

I just keep the original front plate frame that came with the car in the back seat. It was never installed ans still in plastic wrap. Best scenario would be that if I were stopped, I could show the new frame in the package and say something like, "my old one broke in the garage, I just picked this up and haven't had a chance to install it." We'll see how that goes. Haven't had a problem yet.

[Goldmember]

After dealing with several police stops I modded my PT like this



no tickets since this mod was done, best of all it can be removed for shows

[AlexJB]

Nice job on the plate holder.
I'm a fresh import from the UK and over there you get in big trougle within an hour of driving with no front plate.
Has anyone tried the Japanese approach, a plate that's nothing more than a decal on mesh, then no problems with deflecting the air from the intercooler.
Just a thought.
Would you get into just as much trouble making up a plate thats just a big sticker?
Worked in the UK on a nissan 200SX - stuck onto a thin mesh then perforated, then mounted in front of the intercooler.
One guy at a custom show who had most of the mid section of front bumper removed (escort RS turbo, a little ford you don't get here) and just intercooler showing actually had his plate airbrushed onto the intercooler.

[AlexJB]

Has anyone made any of the brackets to lower and ofset the plate for sale?

If somebody made some up such that you only needed a wrench to fit them to the underside and a swewdriver to fit the plate, I'd buy them, I'd pay 50 bucks or so for them, I have no tools other than a few wrenches and pliers ect or any kind of shop as I just moved here.

Would anyone else want them?

[Cal Cruzer]

I have made 2 of them now and I will tell you the EASY part is making the bracket. Mounting them is the hard part. You have to drill and tap the bottom of the metal bumper that is behind the plastic. If I ever had to do that again I would just remove the nose piece because trying to do it with the nose on is a PITA. It is not just a screwdriver and a wrench.

[AlexJB]

Thanks, maybe I'll just have to take my chances... I'm a legal alien I can claim ignorance!

Unfortunately the 4 dirty big holes that the plate holder bolts left behind are a bit of a tell tale sign at the moment

[wasmussen]

I have been reading the posts on the license plate postion in the front and have come to on conclusion. Go downtown and complain that my PT. Crusier didn't come from the dealer with a plate bracket so why should I add one. Exempt ALL Pt.C from having to deal with where to put the plate. My wife and I just bought a vanilla colored 2007 with 20,000 miles on it two weeks ago. It is in perfect looking shape but Texas gets pretty anal about those license plates. We have to mount ours or get fined. It's inevitable to get the ticket and pretty quick I might add.

So I went to my friendly Advance Auto parts store and found a license plate holder that was different and universal.

My 11 year old daughter...I needed small little hands to help me put the license plate on the lower right passanger side. The black plastic grille going across the lower part of the car is not very solid but I bought a license plate holder that is chrome with about 10 inch by 1 inch brackets with long slots in them that are adjustable by allen screws on the outer edge of the 90 angle bend where they are attached together. I found a flat car antenna bracket that was just as long with holes spaced about an inch apart. I put 4 screws with nuts on them and had my daughter run her arm and bracket behind the lower grill and attach one of the slotted brackets on the outside of the grill to it and put nuts on it to hold it in place. Putting bolts on the bracket of the inside area of the grill allowed for space for the thickness of the grill as not to crush it.

We then bolted to top holes in the plate to the other bracket that comes with allen type screws that look great and custom. Then we matched up the holes of each bracket on the sides and put the allen head screws in and postioned the plate parallel to the body. The plate sticks about and inch out from the body. It looks good but the curve of the body makes the plate look like it's facing towards the outside of the car a bit. My daughter thinks it looks cool and I think it looks like it's floating and hot rod like. My wife says it looks stupid that way. My response was after reading this forum and the way the plastic bumper would hold it in the middle there is no discussion about moving it!

I keep hearing inter cooler and blocking it with a lincense plate. This is for a turbo type engine pt.C right? Ours is not a turbo model. The brakes and air getting to it is another concern but we put the plate far right but not covering the outer light area as the older pt. C have.