[Groucho]

I got a parking ticket yesterday in downtown LA that cited me for no front plate.

I had to watch the metermaid write the damned thing while I was stuck in a meeting on the fourth floor of an adjacent building. With the Monaro re-conversion offering very little hint as to the identity, and Holden not exactly being a household name, it was hilarious to watch her try and figure out what kind of car it was. She literally stood there looking at the car, paced a bit, and scratched her head.

On the ticket, where the "vehicle type" line occurs, it states "Other." :rofl:

Luckily, it's non-moving violation, so I simply kick a check for $25 over to the City of Los Angeles and I'm done with it.

 

[Borsig]

lmao

Dont you know they have to have somehting to shoot with the laser?

Big fat front plate, nothing better for reflectivity and size.

 

[HotRodGuy]

I'm not sure the meter maid is allowed to write you up for that. Atleast they weren't too in the past.


That said, i've probably got a dozen no front plate tickets and another dozen window tint tickets under my belt

 

[GTODEALER]

That is hilarious!!:lol:

 

[Groucho]

I'm not sure the meter maid is allowed to write you up for that. Atleast they weren't too in the past.

I wish someone would tell her that:

DISPLAY OF PLATES- NO FRONT PLATES

Here's what I need : http://media.putfile.com/licenseplate

 

[CMD]

Your car is registered as a Pontiac. You can attempt to contest the ticket on the grounds that it isnt your car. Or just pay the 25.

 

[Groucho]

Your car is registered as a Pontiac. You can attempt to contest the ticket on the grounds that it isnt your car. Or just pay the 25.

Pffft. It's only $25- not worth it. It's not even a fixit ticket!

 

[PEARL JAM]

Pffft. It's only $25- not worth it. It's not even a fixit ticket!

I'm sure she went home satisfied that she helped rid the streets of LA of evil-doers.(meanwhile there is a mugging happening across the street)
:shutme

 

[jortegasr]

I wish someone would tell her that:

DISPLAY OF PLATES- NO FRONT PLATES

Here's what I need : http://media.putfile.com/licenseplate

That is pretty sweet. I wonder how much somthing like that would cost?

 

[HotRodGuy]

Your car is registered as a Pontiac. You can attempt to contest the ticket on the grounds that it isnt your car. Or just pay the 25.

he wouldn't win a battle over it being a pontiac or not

 

[dealernut]

That is pretty sweet. I wonder how much somthing like that would cost?

He would have to get 400 of the said tickets to compensate for that.


Plus drive a Cobra. HAHAHA!!!!!


Thought the front plate was a moving violation?

 

[CMD]

Thought the front plate was a moving violation?

Can be either.

 

[nineball481]

Luckily, it's non-moving violation, so I simply kick a check for $25 over to the City of Los Angeles and I'm done with it.

25 is worth not having a plate on the front of your car IMO

 

[Groucho]

25 is worth not having a plate on the front of your car IMO

Exactly.

I've had the car 15 months and put 60,000 miles under the wheels, during which time I've been pulled over 4 times and never once hassled about my lack of front plates.

No big deal.

 

[LYNMUP]

25 is worth not having a plate on the front of your car IMO

So does that mean I can send the city of Omaha $25 and remove my front plate and fill the holes and paint? That would be so sweet! That would be that much less wind drag.

 

[fergyflyer]

In California the issue fix-it tickets. You have a time period to head to the local DMV with the repair they want done. They check to make sure it's done. Depending on who wrote the ticket it's free or $10. I kept waiting to get one for the Z28. Pa doesn't have front plates, so there wasn't anyplace to put it. You have to change the grill and it looks awful.
I went a full year without a ticket. On my move to Florida, I was in west Texas were 20 and 10 split. The speed limit was 75 and I was doing 79. As I crested a hill a Texas trooper was on the side in his Intrepid. As soon as I went past he pulled out. Then bam on come the lights as he gets behind me. He asked me where I was going and I said moving to Fla. He said the speed limit in texas is 75 and they take that limit seriously. I appologized, thinking that I had never been pulled over for less than 5 over.
He came back to the car with a warning for the speed and a nother warning for not having a front plate. He then told me the plate would need to be fixed within 24 hours or I would be cited if I was pulled over again. It gets better!
He then noted the time was 6:20 and dusk started in 5 minutes. The night time speed limit is 55 and he advised me that I should drive 55 when i pulled out. I thanked him, pulled out got up to 54 and set the cruise with him following me. He followed me for 70 miles before I hit Fort Stockton and decided that it was a waste of time to drive like this. I went to bed early and got up early the next day.
That stupid trooper let about 30-40 cars and trucks pass us, some doing well over 80.
Oh well the point is it took a Texas trooper to cite me for not having a front Californa plate.

 

[707GTOLS2]

Yea everytime I got pulled over they never seem to mind my front plate missing and my tinted windows, they always to seem to forget to write me a ticket too!!! :cool
they're too infatuated with the GOAT!!!

 

[eldodroptop]

Fergy, The nightime speed limit in Texas is 65 not 55... I will bet the Trooper was following you laughing his ass off....

 

[fergyflyer]

In east Texas the speed limit at night was 65, but in west Texas it's 55. Anybody from El Paso????? Did it change this year??? I also noticed the speed limit was 75 in west Texas, but 70 in east Texas.

 

[04m6_ca]

Are you serious?

4 different speed limits, based on time of day and your location in relation to the city? WOW.:confused