Comment on NY woman who used to own "NCC-1701" license plate ticketed thousands of dollars because of cars with Star Trek novelty plates going through traffic cameras.

• Anivia@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d have to drill holes into the front

  So what? That’s how it’s done at the factory too

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  • Graphy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because front plates look like shit and Id rather not have to drill into my car just to make it easier on the cops?

    That’s how it’s done at the factory too.

    Wow no kidding.

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    • princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For fun I looked up how I’d have to mount a front plate and it’s just gross. I’d have to drill holes into the front…

      Wow no kidding.

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      • Graphy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Nice to see you really wanted to keep this post going lol

        Almost as if there’s a difference between

        An assembly line making perfectly centered holes into a part that they’ve yet to finish painting and detailing

        versus

        my ass crouching down and praying I can get four clean pilot holes in and by some miracle the paint not start flaking

        Not to mention what if I put the plate slightly too high and it catches more wind and starts making some annoying ass whistling

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• marlowe221@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I used two self-tapping sheet metal screws when we moved from a single-plate-on-the-back state to a double-plate state.

  There’s no holder but…. That’s pretty much decorative anyway.

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• kieron115@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “lopsided” font plate was almost a badge of honor back in the day lol because it meant that you had a front mount intercooler that needed air (and if you did the offset plate without an FMIC you were ridiculed endlessly for being a buffoon)

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