front license plate is not necessary when you drive a lambo...lol j/k! i don't think cops would care because their too focused on the car itself!

I was never hasseled in Ohio until I fell into one of the random Safety Checks. He told me to put it on but didn't write a warning. So what happened? I ingored it. Two weeks later I pull into the parking lot of an empty building. Two cruisers where sitting at the entrance. I assumed they were talking. NOPE! Another random Safety Check. I got a written warning on that one. Had to put my plate on and take it to the Patrol Station for verification. Funny thing is about a month earlier I'd told someone that I hadn't seen one of those Safety Checks in better than fifteen years.

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Wouldn't you know it? It was a perfect sunny day. I drove to my son's graduation in CT on Sunday. It was a beautiful day and I was finally getting home, surprised about not getting stopped by the fifteen cops I passed during the whole 200 mile round trip. Then bam! At the VZ bridge toll plaza, just 10 miles from my house in Staten Island, a cop wanted to know where my front plate was and why is my inspection sticker expired. I replied very nicely, this was the first time this year I have the car out and I thought the inspection wasn't due until July. And the front plate is home. He then made me wait for two tickets. While he was writing the tickets, my wife didn't stop yelling at him. At that point I had to put a sock in her mouth so not to spend the night in jail. After giving me the tickets, I drove off quickly before my wife started up again. I was pissed at her that it might have made matters worse, however the jerk made two errors on the tickets that render them useless and will get thrown out. I think he was afraid of my wife?

I was never stopped for anything in the Lambo. It's been over four years...Wow!!! I guess my first wasn't so bad?

From talking with the State Patrol and a few people who applied unsuccessfully (one was a Mini-Cooper and the other a Rice Rocket), it seems there is no formal application. Looking at the reasons the state denied the requests, and what info they requested from these applicants, all I can offer is how I have made application. I also don't understand why the two unsuccessfuls wasted their time with doing this, even with their argument of value (?) and customizing (?).

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Mounting height. They asked this of both applicants, so I took several pictures with a clearly graduated yard stick positioned vertically in front of the bumber. Close up and back far enough to include the width of the car.

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This is a response to an inquiry of the failed Mini-Cooper applicant:

"To request an exemption from attaching a front license plate to your
vehicle, a letter, articulating why you feel you should be exempt from
the law (a picture of the front of the vehicle is also helpful) should
be sent to:

WSP/ESR UNIT
PO BOX 42614
OLYMPIA WA 98504-2614

The information will be reviewed and a letter with the decision will be
sent to you.

In the letter please also provide make/model/year of vehicle and an
address the letter should be sent to."

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In light of the information requested by the State Patrol, I wrote a letter which included my concerns with not being able to physicaly mount a plate within the law's mandated height requirements and addressed all the concerns asked of the unsuccessful applicants. Then I added the Trooper's reasons for wanting front plates. Identifying a car going the opposite direction of the crime he is responding to (not much of a problem identifying a black countach), and for identifying a possible stolen car (most thiefs only steal a plate for the rear because of time, again not a problem with a Countach). Then I reminded them that they have previously done this for a Pantera and a DeLorean.

Now, it's a waiting game to see what their response is. For your info, the trooper told me there are only about a dozen vehicles meeting the requirements for exemption.

Hope this helps you!!!