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Fastening your license plate
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Thu Nov 12, 2020 10:42 amby zed
I have spent many restless night trying to figure out the best way to attach the license plates. Fortunately, someone has done a comprehensive analysis of options (for a BMW). See
https://www.e92n55.com/2017/05/how-to-b ... -hardware/I am certain Rob will chime in with his solution.
Now maybe I can now move forward with better nights sleep.
Keith
Re: Fastening your license plate
Posted:
Thu Nov 12, 2020 12:36 pmby RiverPatrol
What's wrong with screws and nuts?
Re: Fastening your license plate
Posted:
Thu Nov 12, 2020 12:56 pmby zed
Oh Leslie, are not Patrol owners as OCD as BMW owners?
Keith
Re: Fastening your license plate
Posted:
Thu Nov 12, 2020 2:14 pmby RiverPatrol
Well I've been called an anal purist before. But screws and nuts are what was used for decades until the advent of plastic bumpers with threaded inserts.
Re: Fastening your license plate
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Thu Nov 12, 2020 2:56 pmby RiverPatrol
They were actually referred to as license plate screws. They used a square nut.
Re: Fastening your license plate
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Thu Nov 12, 2020 4:17 pmby Esteban
Not period correct...
Re: Fastening your license plate
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Thu Nov 12, 2020 4:47 pmby zed
Uh-oh...Esteban is correct! This deviation from stock will then give me nightmares. Time to sell the Patrol and start the restoration of Radio Flyer wagons. Then I could build an outbuilding for the projects.
Keith
Re: Fastening your license plate
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Thu Nov 12, 2020 6:56 pmby plateaucal
Down vote. You could use bailing wire. You could also buy a Jeep.
Re: Fastening your license plate
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Fri Nov 13, 2020 5:29 pmby r1lark
Well..........if you want to be
perfectly factory correct, there should be no license plate at all. The factory didn't put license plates on the Patrols, did they? LOL
Re: Fastening your license plate
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Fri Nov 13, 2020 6:21 pmby zed
r1lark wrote:Well..........if you want to be
perfectly factory correct, there should be no license plate at all. The factory didn't put license plates on the Patrols, did they? LOL
Excellent point. The 1969 Patrol Leaflet omitted the front license plate and the front license plate bracket.
viewtopic.php?f=31&t=1709So now... should the Patrol be shown with or without the front license plate bracket? More restless nights ahead!!!
Keith