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Tubesock Holocaust posted:Hold on, they rivet your plates in place there? Those must stay with the car, then.
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Collateral Damage posted:The country sticker hasn't been required for ages. In the EU the country code is part of the license plate since 1990, and afaik it was never a requirement in the US? IIRC the oval was (is?) required if you take your car to a foreign country and you don't have the flag/letters on your plates. Norway introduced the flag plates in 2006, so it's not exactly ancient history - though I think we were among the last.
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spog posted:They don't stay with yours? Depends on the state you're in. Some states have them stay with the driver. Here in Minnesota, the plates stay with the car, but are replaced every ten years, and there are several special plates you can get if you donate to wildlife conservation at your yearly registration, so they're screwed on. Granted, the screws are usually rusted solid!
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My plates have been stolen three times in my life and my current one is bent from an attempted theft. I like the idea of rivetting them in place.
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Rhyno posted:My plates have been stolen three times in my life and my current one is bent from an attempted theft. I like the idea of rivetting them in place. Sharpen the edge before you do.
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Aug 11, 2016 14:36
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What good are stolen license plates? Just slap them on your unregged car and hope no one notices?
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Raluek posted:Maybe they're just getting into the early drag car / fuelie look. I was gonna say prerunner. Is license plate theft still a thing? Seems like now that every police car has quick access to run said plate, and some are even automatically scanning all plates, it really becomes worthless almost immediately.
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Stealing fuel with a stolen or copied number plate is a big thing.
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IOwnCalculus posted:I was gonna say prerunner. It happens a lot here. As Cakefool says it's really common to use a series of stolen plates to keep stolen trucks on the road since it's a lot easier to steal a plate than another car.
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SCA Enthusiast posted:Depends on the state you're in. Some states have them stay with the driver. It also depends on the country in Europe. Cause, you know, they have wildly differing laws and regulations.
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Would, that's awesome.
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Code Jockey posted:Would, that's awesome. It looks like bulldog trying to look imposing.
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I'm wondering what the hell it does to the suspension roll center.
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IOwnCalculus posted:I was gonna say prerunner. I was thinking Gasser style. The stolen plate thing works since it would take most people days if not weeks to actually notice that their license plate is missing. Being idiot teenagers, we stole the plates off of a friends car and he didn't even notice. Gave them back to him after a day or two and he was super confused.
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I've had my registration sticker stolen off a car once. They cut that corner of my license plate off. I didn't notice until a cop pulled me over to let me know.
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My plate was stolen off my VFR this spring. I had just memorized the last goddamn plate number, I'm still working on memorizing this one. I know it didn't fall off because I check the plate screws daily out of paranoia. Someone seems to have gotten interrupted in the theft of my current plate with security style bolts because I found it hanging by one the other day. I zip tied it on the missing side for now until I find an option for plate security that's actually worthwhile.
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To which ever one of you goons is continually stealing his license plate:
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Honestly if someone stole my plates and put random other ones on in place I doubt I'd notice till I got pulled over. Fortunately they mostly seem to just take the plates. No one except my neighbors and people who grew up in the neighborhood even realizes the road I park my cars on exists, though, so I doubt I have much to worry about. My plates did get stolen off my 96 XJ in 2010 but I'm reasonably certain it's because I had it parked in an upscale neighborhood a few blocks from my apartment and someone decided to try and get my ugly car towed by taking its plates off and calling it in as abandoned.
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GutBomb posted:To which ever one of you goons is continually stealing his license plate: I live in the ghetto, I doubt it was a goon. They die if removed from the suburbs.
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PCOS Bill posted:I live in the ghetto, I doubt it was a goon. They die if removed from the suburbs.
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I've had the plates on my cars stolen twice. Doesn't help that AZ has actual copper historic plates.
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PCOS Bill posted:I live in the ghetto, I doubt it was a goon. They die if removed from the suburbs. i thought Pittsburgh was a cool city that wasn't lovely at all???
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Krakkles posted:Even from you, the utter lack of self-awareness is impressive. I died years ago. Alaois posted:i thought Pittsburgh was a cool city that wasn't lovely at all??? Everywhere I am is the worst part of wherever I am
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Alaois posted:i thought Pittsburgh was a cool city that wasn't lovely at all??? http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3222431&pagenumber=705#post463051935
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PCOS Bill posted:I died years ago. It's almost as if there were some common theme or denominator. vv I'm a sucker for dragging out punch lines. TotalLossBrain fucked around with this message at 22:07 on Aug 11, 2016 |
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TotalLossBrain posted:It's almost as if there were some common theme or denominator. i think that was 
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this was either a labor of love, or a distraction from the worst relationship in history.
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A happy ending!
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Powershift posted:Stance is dumb that type of stance is really common on donks. at least, the type where they're squatting down as low as possible on those big rims. they usually are able to get the rears tucked in a good deal more than the front due to clearances needed for steering, and they often sit nose up.  i like donks - i am the terrible car stuff.
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That's been a thing in truck circles for a while, too; they call it "bulldogging". There's also "reverse bulldogging" which is jacking the rear end end way up so you're staring through the windshield down at the road while driving.
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Gomi Day posted:that type of stance is really common on donks. at least, the type where they're squatting down as low as possible on those big rims. That car would look infinitely better stock.
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Gomi Day posted:that type of stance is really common on donks. at least, the type where they're squatting down as low as possible on those big rims. Speaking of donks, I finally saw my first donk in the wild today. Except it wasn't one of those really well done themed donks. All I saw when I was turning was that it was green and there was "Green Lantern" written out in what looked like green tape on the sill. I wish I had been able to get a picture of it because it was interesting, but definitely would have fit right at home in the thread.
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PCOS Bill posted:That car would look infinitely better stock. it wasn't the best example, but imgur was sending me into an infinite verification loop, whenever i tried to upload an image, right now. you'll find tonnes of examples of what i'm talking about, both bad and good with a GIS for "26 inch donk squat" Gomi Day fucked around with this message at 02:57 on Aug 12, 2016 |
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DarkSol posted:Speaking of donks, I finally saw my first donk in the wild today. Except it wasn't one of those really well done themed donks. All I saw when I was turning was that it was green and there was "Green Lantern" written out in what looked like green tape on the sill. We've got a donk in town with hot pink underglow and led strips mounted in the rims. I'd drive it while laughing my rear end off. It is in fact awesome.
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Enourmo posted:That's been a thing in truck circles for a while, too; they call it "bulldogging". On trucks it started as the cali lean, because pre-runners with soft long travel suspensions naturally squat at the back, so guys who wanted that but didn't want to spend $10k on suspension started just installing the front half of a lift kit so people thought they had a pre-runner. then it naturally got out of hand. 
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My favorite is the guys who put leveling kits on their trucks to "correct" the natural stance unloaded HD pickups have. And not just on brodozers, I see it on actual work trucks that are regularly loaded to max and beyond. Apparently these guys have no problem carrying 3 tons of weight in the bed while having no direct sightline to the road ahead.
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I see donks all the time. They are super common in my neighborhood and I think some of them are cool looking and others are poo poo. There's a wide range, in my mind.
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