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Re: Cop vs. LBC's

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Subject: Re: Cop vs. LBC's
From: Max Heim <mvheim@attbi.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:41:15 -0700
OK, so what's the excuse for not having a front plate on the Mountaineer?
The standard sports car reasons (mars beautiful lines, blocks air flow to
radiator, ruins aerodynamics, no place to mount it) certainly don't apply...
<g>

(Actually, what bugs me is no rear plates... my guess is 10% of the cars on
the highway in CA have those paper dealer ads instead of plates)

on 8/19/02 8:11 AM, mg-dennis@mindspring.com at mg-dennis@mindspring.com
wrote:

> It seems California is cracking down on no front plates.  A lot of the cities
> are
> installing red light cameras.  The cameras take a picture of the driver and
> front
> plate.  I was at a mall in the mountaineer which had no front plate and when I
> returned to the car it had a ticket on the window..  Looking down the isle so
> did
> a lot of other cars..  The sheriff was cruising the mall parking lot writing
> every one he saw!
> So far I haven't been caught in the MG...
> 
> Dennis
> 67 MGB
> 
> R C Engelhardt wrote:
> 
>> Our cars may not be too popular in the eyes of some law enforcement
>> officials. This Saturday our club the North Bay British Car Club
>> (www.nobbc.com) had a ride from Santa Rosa to Lake Berryessa in Napa
>> County, Ca. It was a great day and a great ride until we took a lunch
>> break at a picnic table at a Bureau of Reclamation boat launch site. A
>> Napa sheriff deputy rolled in and in a stunning display of abuse of
>> power wrote us all $65 citations for lacking front license plates. I
>> don't *even* have a place to mount a plate. First time in years I felt
>> like calling a cop a pig! To make it even worse, he didn't recognize the
>> brand name or models of our cars. I was waiting for him to ask me how to
>> spell MG.
>> 
>> Ron
>> 58 MGA
>> Santa Rosa, SONOMA COUNTY, Ca.
> 

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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires

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