I was walking to lunch when I saw the shadow of a MINI behind a Van. When the van moved away I saw a BRG MINI Cooper with what looked like European plates. I yelled out to the guy and asked him where he got them, he said he had them made. I asked if they where street legal, he said yes. I said I had an Indy Blue on the way and then traffic started to move and he had to go. I did't find out where he had them made. I am hopeing someone here knows somthing about this. The plates where white with Black lettering, it had CA on the left side followed by what looked like some symbols then a normal cali plate #. It looked like this:

CA -' 4MLJ779

(The numbers above are made up)

I did get off one picture from a distance with my PocketDigital. I did what I could to enhance it and you can see that it is a wide and thin plate.



The car was in Santa Monica Today 9/10/02 @ around 12:45
The intersection of Lincoln Blvd. & Olympic Blvd.
Does anyone know this BRG?

 

With all the special interest plates that the CA DMV are trying to sell, I would doubt very much if these were really legal. But if they were, how cool it would be to have them!

 

Ahhhhhhh....hence the name Technomage....

I mean comon...who walks around at lunch with a digital camera in their pocket???

Just giving you crap of course.

Anxiously awaiting a response to this thread. I would love to dump my standard Cal plates for the Euro version.

 

To be honest I had two cameras on me, the Logitech Pocket Digital and the Casio WQV3 Color Watch Cam. :smile:
If these are legit plates I MUST have one.

Logitech Pocket Digital

Casio Camera Watch

 

OK....I have to know...

Who do you work for??

There must be some connection between work and cameras...

 

wait a minute!!!!

You work for her majesty's secret service don't you????

What's your number??

008?? 009?? 010??

 

>>OK....I have to know...
>>
>>Who do you work for??
>>
>>There must be some connection between work and cameras...


Erm... *I* am a blacksmith, and I always have my Cannon Digital Elph on me.

<shrug>

 

Anyone know if you can get this in Florida ?

I want it !

 

I work for a Visual Effects House in Santa Monica.
The spy stuff is a side job

 

The car obviously is a European model because it's got the longer plate space in the rear. US specs have the standard short spot int he back and you can't fit the longer Euro plates because it doesn't fit. In fact, I'm pretty sure there's even an indentation made to fit the plates, so you couldn't force the fit w/o bending the plates.

Perhaps this was a Euro model someone imported after living/visiting there and had the car modified for US specs? Did he/she have a British accent?

 

Perhaps you don't know this car very well.
This is a picture taken last weekend in Ohio of a US spec MCS:
:smile:

>>The car obviously is a European model because it's got the longer plate space in the rear. US specs have the standard short spot int he back and you can't fit the longer Euro plates because it doesn't fit. In fact, I'm pretty sure there's even an indentation made to fit the plates, so you couldn't force the fit w/o bending the plates.
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>>Perhaps this was a Euro model someone imported after living/visiting there and had the car modified for US specs? Did he/she have a British accent?

 

Okay, so maybe not obviously :smile: And I do know the car well; I just don't spend much time behind it as I'm behind the steering wheel

 

There is no way that those plates are legal in California (or any state).
If the owner imported the car for travel, thats one thing, but if the car is registered in the US, it has to have state plates on it.

 

I live in the L.A. area and have only seen those legally on cars that were just brought in from Europe. I don't think you can maintain them for long on your car without ultimately getting ticketed. If you really want some however, check out this website:
http://www.euro-sign.com tel: 954-979-1448
These people make replica license plates that look original to me. Different states, countries, and more. You can even order #'s and letters specially.

 

That BRG MINI Cooper in the "Spy Photo" is either an US or Canada spec model. Notice the red marker lights on the left rear wheel arch. Mexican or Euro market MINIs do not have side marker lights mounted in the wheel arches like the US/Canada models do.

That person was obviously bluffing. Unless the car belongs to a diplomat or belongs to someone working for MINI/BMW I very much doubt those Euro license plates are valid in Ca.

Here in Fla I have seen cars brought over from Europe (Particuraly England) with their original plates still attached to them. Also, since in FL you are not required to have a front license tag like in other states, many people buy the Euro "Fashion" tags and out them in the front. I know a couple of places here that can even customize them for you.