2 AMG GTs, 1 street, 0 front plates

"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein) 01/30/2020 at 20:15 • Filed to: None

0

17

Spotted tonight in downtown Bethesda, MD: not one, but two, AMG GTs street parked on the same block. Although the second one was “only” a GT 53 four-door coupe   sedan which has a starting price of a mere $99,950 for its piddly 429 hp.

The DC area is weird with nice cars. There are very few full-on exotic cars for the amount of rich people here. Usually the most people are willing to flex is top end Mercedes, Range Rovers & Porsches plus a smattering of the priciest BMWs and Audis.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > Textured Soy Protein 01/30/2020 at 20:34

0

Sweet. They were very capable cars.

The “No Front Plate” thing bugs me here in CA... where they don’t seem to enforce it at all, despite being a state requirement. Meanwhile? My home state is a zealous one on enforcement..

Don’t know how all the Tesla guys get by with never mounting a front plate here. I’d be stopped twice a week back home.

camarov6rs > Textured Soy Protein 01/30/2020 at 20:39

0

I can’t remember if Montana requires a front plate

Textured Soy Protein > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 01/30/2020 at 20:45

0

I’ve been rolling with no front plate since 2013 ( the blue BMW behind the sedan is mine ), first in Wiscons in and now in the Maryland suburbs of DC, with frequent travel to DC & VA. Never been hassled about it. I even got a speeding ticket one time in Wisconsin where the cop either didn’t notice or didn’t care about the lack of front plate. 

Textured Soy Protein > camarov6rs 01/30/2020 at 20:47

1

Around here, usually you only see Montana plates on cars that belong to Virginia residents , because of the annual car tax that Virginia charges.

(I used to work in Virginia and there was one company in my building that had several reserved spaces, which were usually occupied by double-parked fancy cars with Montana plates.)

fintail > Textured Soy Protein 01/30/2020 at 20:53

0

It has to be virtually unenforced here in WA, I suspect it is in other places as well - at least for expensive material (I doubt if a 19 year old in a clapped out fart can Civic from a marginal area would get away with it as much) . I think half the local Tesla population lacks a front plate, along with much of the tuned/exotics. Says so much when states can’t even agree on this detail.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > Textured Soy Protein 01/30/2020 at 20:55

0

Wow. That’s completely different than my experience with Maryland troopers and the dozen   other “police forces” we had patrolling around our offices near BWI. I always thought the MD State Police were the worst. Between the plate scanners and the random stops.... Ugh. Bad memories.

I bought an Audi A8 from a dealer in West Virginia to drive while I was out there. Had a valid dealer tag from WV posted in the rear window (as is the WV law) with the paperwork to title in UT out west here... which is also where UT posts the temp tags.

This MD Trooper lights me up as I’m pulling into the company’s lot. I’m getting my lunch out of the car to go back in and get to work— and this guy lays into me for the new Audi.... And he won’t give up on the “Maryland law requires a dealer tag to be posted in the license plate area”. I tried to explain reciprocity and the compliance with the dealer laws WHERE I bought the car and WHERE it was to be titled. Prik.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > camarov6rs 01/30/2020 at 21:07

0

Yes Montana does require a front plate. I got pulled over once because the officer claimed he couldn’t see mine. It was bent up at an angle. He really wanted to write me a ticket for something. I think he tagged me going 95 up a hill and it took him a while to 180 and catch up.

Textured Soy Protein > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 01/30/2020 at 21:24

1

I could just be lucky with this . Who knows.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Textured Soy Protein 01/30/2020 at 21:29

2

There’s a bill here in Vermont that if passed will remove our need for front plates. I really hope it goes through because the front plate does not look good on the Corolla.

Then again the two holes in the bumper from the plate mount would probably drive me up the wall...

Textured Soy Protein > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 01/30/2020 at 21:35

0

You can get overpriced color-matched plugs for those holes from bumperplugs.com . Maybe they’re the ones lobbying for this change in Vermont. 

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > Textured Soy Protein 01/30/2020 at 21:41

0

I had a work colleague who’d just bought a new E class Benz. Literally had just picked it up, moved the plates over but hadn’t gotten to MVD to shift the plate over in the system . HE gets nailed by “the plate scanner” with a MD State Cop a half mile from the office.... literally on the first trip to the office.

I think between four of us we had like 6 traffic stops inside of two months— all within a mile of the office. And, ALL driving nice machinery.

AestheticsInMotion > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 01/30/2020 at 21:48

0

It’s interesting to see the variance in enforcement. They’re required in Washington state , but I’ve gone seven years without a front plate on my daily driver and been pulled over for it just once. And that’s in a car that belongs on a racetrack and looks the part, no less . No ticket, I said there wasn’t any mounting hardware and the cop didn’t seem to care much. It was a while ago, but I seem to recall his reply being “oh, okay. ”

Textured Soy Protein > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 01/30/2020 at 21:51

0

Could be that area around BWI is more heavily patrolled. There’s a lot of long distance interstate traffic on 95 that’s just passing through MD, and if I were to guess, the state troopers view it as a nice healthy revenue stream.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Textured Soy Protein 01/30/2020 at 21:54

1

The Corolla’s plate mounts into the grille so it’s just black plastic and not paint.

I’m kinda glad neither the front or rear plates are on top of the blue, the green plate would probably clash horribly.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > Textured Soy Protein 01/30/2020 at 22:14

0

Yeah, I was only partially joking on the number of different “police forces”... in a normal day I would see.

City police
AMTRAK police
Baltimore BWI Airport Police
Anne Arundel county police
MD State Troopers
NSA Police
Maryland Transit Police (for the light rail, I guess)
Military Police
And a bunch of official looking three-letter-acronymy -cop cars

It seemed , ahem, excessive.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > AestheticsInMotion 01/30/2020 at 22:19

0

Yeah, I once drove a project car in ill-state-of-repair (A David Tracy type deal) 2350 miles across the country WITHOUT a front plate on, but with insurance binder papers and the car sale paperwork. I had my documents, but the plates were “not transferred over” just yet.

I get literally FIVE miles from my own DMV... which was going to be my first stop and this locally stationed State Highway Patrol guy does a full U-Turn, in heavy traffic, to light me up and be a hero. He “let me off” with just a warning... but I’m like “you’d really endanger all those people just now over a front plate not mounted???”.

Some places it must be a hot button.

haveacarortwoorthree2 > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 01/31/2020 at 08:30

1

Texas only enforced it when I was in my Mustang and they assumed a kid was driving. Pulled over multiple times for no front plate, then let go every time without a ticket. One cop even walked up to the window, saw my old ass sitting there, and just said, “You’re good. Have a nice a day.” Never once pulled over in my Jag, though, despite generally driving on the exact same streets and highways.