I have a license plate from Japan that I got from a friend that was stationed over there. He had it on his 300ZX and had to get rid of
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12-22-2012, 03:00 AM | #1 (permalink) |
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I have a license plate from Japan that I got from a friend that was stationed over there. He had it on his 300ZX and had to get rid of the car before he came back to the states. He brought his license plate back with him and I asked if I can buy it from him. I bought it for 50 bucks (my offer). At first I got it for show purposes to mount in front of the G I had but now I am trying to find out if there are fees I can pay to transfer my registration to these plates. Does anyone have information on that? I might be out of luck on this but if anyone has information that would be great. Thanks
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12-22-2012, 04:57 AM | #2 (permalink) |
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What state? You cannot register the plates as your own in any of them as your legal tags, but I would be led to believe that any state that allows custom front plates would be okay to have them up front.
/then again, I can only rely on what Google provides given the info I've given it (GIGO)
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I doubt if you can make that your official registered plates in any state.
I do have a euro plate from my BMW but used it as an accessory decorative plate under the official registered plate. Never been pulled over yet. 040.jpg |
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As far as I know, this is not possible. I have looked into doing the same for Europlates in NY and they won't allow it. They will allow you to have them on the car (as decoration) as long as your normal state plates are still showing.
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IMHO, the Euro-plate and the Japanese ones would look good on the front. Personally, and because I live here, I never put a front plate on. If you don't need one... it looks disgusting. Edit: me bad, I just read what you wanted to do. I don't think that's possible anywhere. Good luck.
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There are no states that will allow you to register those, as your own plates. Even if you could here in Cali, you would still need two matching, in which you said you only have one.
When I imported my e36m3 from Japan, I was running on Japanese plates for two months, waiting to get the registration translated. I got stopped and pulled over about once a week for the plates. Never got a ticket though, as it was legal to do, since I did have the paperwork from the DMV. |
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i was gonna buy a japan plate from this custom plate shop in Philly, because I Live in PA i can have a accessory front plate, and no you cannot have your registration transferred to a japanese plate.
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No, unfortunately. Although we should make that suggestion to Gov. Brown. He's always looking for a way to make more $$$ for our great state to spend...
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12-23-2012, 04:31 PM | #11 (permalink) |
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are those the longer license plates? (what country are those?) If so those would look sick, I see a couple jettas around here that use them, they put them in the front windshield vertically
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The longer plates are Euro plates. Japanese plates are the same size/shape as US plates. Cool thing about Japanese plates, you can get them with the green characters (white plate, green characters) in a translucent green. They have a power source hooked up to them, and the characters light up green at night. Looks pretty cool.
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foreign plates are extremely poseur-ish in my opinion. if you're gonna be a japanophile/weeaboo, just wear stupid clothing and hairstyles and claim to speak japanese or whatever.
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but vertically and usually the car is more tunerish. |
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