Front license plate required in Oregon

[Jesse D]

I used some carbon tubes to make a lightweight easy to remove plate holder. I glued/laid up some slightly larger tubes on the inside of my grill piece and made a bracket from two tubes and some carbon plate. All easily available from carbon suppliers. The plate never moves when in place and is plenty strong. Weight measured in ounces.

[Cueball1]

@Jesse Dthat looks like a well thought out and elegant solution.  Not completely sure I can bring myself to cutting the holes in the side of the nose cone 😬 but will certainly use the idea as inspiration! 

[Jesse D]

One of the advantages of gel coat vs paint is that the holes can be glassed over and red gel coat smoothed into the surrounding area in an invisible way that you can't do with paint.

 

[oilteq]

So, in Maine you have to run a front plate, but racing slicks are okay?

[coffee break]

Anyone pondered a mounting that allowed the plate to be layed flat by aerodynamic pressure and return to vertical when stopped?

[Cueball1]

I had a hinged bracket at the top of the mouth of my 94 miata.  Allowed the plate to swing back and not interrupt air flow to the radiator/oil cooler/intercooler.  Was pulled over for it and given a warning the plate needs to be visible at all times. 

[jbcollier]

Here’s the original bracket for a 69 S3:

 

[MV8]

The original type tag mount can also lay the tag back at about 45 degrees like a scoop that doesn't block the nose opening, but it may have just been bent back to that angle in the 1970 article showing the mount. Maybe JB will show the attachment underneath?

Edited September 11, 2023 by MV8

[Jesse D]

11 hours ago, oilteq said:

So, in Maine you have to run a front plate, but racing slicks are okay?

Ha. Normally the slicks come off for road driving but it was only a short trip, Officer, and look it's sunny out and no chance of rain.

 

The reality is as long as I'm moving it's hard to tell they're slicks and the rest of the car draws more attention. It's Maine after all.

[Cueball1]

@Jesse DUnfortunately to the side will block the turn signal on that side.  On my birkin it's mounted low.  

 

You can also see in this pic an aluminum plate across the bottom side of the nosecone.  Looks like my solution will be something like the last couple old school pics with the plate laid back some, mounted to that.  

 

Good news is they did title it through  replica rules as a 1964 vehicle.  No deq test needed! 

[jbcollier]

The mounts for the front plate holder:

 

[Cueball1]

Unfortunately nothing like that exists on my Birkin. Doesn't appear to have ever had a front plate in it's lifetime.  No brackets or mounting points were added during construction.