American Winkers

American Winkers

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Ballistic Banana

Original Poster:

14,700 posts

274 months

Saturday 26th October 2002
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Whay da Fcuk are them domino shaped winkers doing firstly on the Griffith and secondly that close to the front when you llready have them TAnk Type round ones there.

Its an american thing init.

Must say that the woodwork thing looked good.

BB

Harrigan

410 posts

272 months

Saturday 26th October 2002
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You'll probably find that they are not "winkers", more than likely they are reflectors, and required for the US equivalent of an MOT on a full import like the TVR would be out there...

Or am I just talkng through a hole in my head?

Harrigan

>> Edited by Harrigan on Saturday 26th October 08:57

simpo one

87,095 posts

272 months

Saturday 26th October 2002
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Lucky they didn't have to stick great big bumpers on, like the MGB, E-Type etc...

lestag

4,614 posts

283 months

Sunday 27th October 2002
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looks a canadian ting from the licencse plate... :-)



Its an american thing init.

Must say that the woodwork thing looked good.

BB

simpo one

87,095 posts

272 months

Sunday 27th October 2002
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How did he get a plate that just says 'TVR' anyway? Or is it on private land and stuck on just for a show?

goin2fast52

57 posts

267 months

Sunday 27th October 2002
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you can get custom plates for a small fee

PetrolTed

34,443 posts

310 months

Sunday 27th October 2002
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I met the owner of the blue Griff at the motor show. Good to meet some international owners of the marque.

david010167

1,397 posts

270 months

Monday 28th October 2002
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It is a vanity plate, in the US you need only one legal Number plate and that is usualy on the back, the front in my limited knowledge can be anything.

David

alt

1,879 posts

289 months

Monday 28th October 2002
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Yeah, and can't the legal number plate be anything you want as long as it's unique?
I remember Jasper Carrot talking about a mate you had a plate with BOLLOCKS as the Americans didn't know they are!

venom7

28 posts

276 months

Sunday 3rd November 2002
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In Canada(Ontario) you can have vanity plates($150 Can. if memory serves me) and they go on both the front and back of the car. I decided not to go for them since mostly Camaro and Mustang owners seem to get them. My original plate is more unique than anything they can think up anyways.

simpo one

87,095 posts

272 months

Sunday 3rd November 2002
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'It is a vanity plate, in the US you need only one legal Number plate and that is usualy on the back, the front in my limited knowledge can be anything.'

What fun! I'll have a front plate that says 'get out of my way' in mirror-writing...

roop

6,012 posts

291 months

Sunday 3rd November 2002
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I Believe they are additional lights that come on with the side and headlights rather than indicators (even though they are orangey coloured). There may even be a pair in the rear wings too. I remember my dad's old 3000M had these.

Roop




Whay da Fcuk are them domino shaped winkers doing firstly on the Griffith and secondly that close to the front when you llready have them TAnk Type round ones there.

Its an american thing init.

Must say that the woodwork thing looked good.

BB


>> Edited by roop on Sunday 3rd November 11:50

heliox

450 posts

269 months

Monday 4th November 2002
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its lucky that J walker hasn't been struck yet!!

heliox

Tailslide

15 posts

264 months

Tuesday 5th November 2002
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Nono, you can have a vanity plate that says anything provided it's up to 7 characters, isn't considered obscene and is unique to the state.... so BOLLOCKS is out (put them back in please). However, BOLLOX is certainly do-able 50 times...

icamm

2,153 posts

267 months

Tuesday 5th November 2002
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Don't the US rules on 'plates differ from state to state? Some only require a rear plate and some require both.

However, as has already been mentioned, both Canada and US allow you to buy plates with anything on as long as it is not obscene and is under the maximum number of characters.

mikeboz

14 posts

282 months

Friday 15th November 2002
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hey ....Im the owner of the blue Canadian Griff..Thoses "winkers" are actual lights required by the Canadian Ministry of transport at the time of importation....needless to say, mine are gone when I respray next time...gotta patch up the holes first....where do i get a pair of those small markers you guys have? ....and about the plates...the rules vary province to province...or state to state.. here in Ontario...we are allowed up to 8 characters as long as it doesn't piss anybody off. I just got my new ones "XCESSIVE"...Ill get them on the car soon...$200 CAD
front and back plates are a must here...although I havent had front ones on my Tasmin since 1989...or my griff for that matter...Ive been pulled over by the police several times...thinking I was finally going to get fined... the cops only asked if they can sit in the car....Great deal I thought...and no fine...



>> Edited by mikeboz on Friday 15th November 03:22

david beer

3,982 posts

274 months

Friday 15th November 2002
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Hi,do you mean the small side indicator repeaters we have? There is nothing else i can think of.

Dazren

22,612 posts

268 months

Friday 15th November 2002
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simpo one said: 'It is a vanity plate, in the US you need only one legal Number plate and that is usualy on the back, the front in my limited knowledge can be anything.'

What fun! I'll have a front plate that says 'get out of my way' in mirror-writing...




When DVLA released the "T" plates the plate "T13 VOM" was available for a couple of months, I thought about it but didn't plan on getting a new car for a while so didn't.

Apparently it's recently been on a black ferrari spaced appropriatly to give mirror users a pretty clear message!!

DAZ


>> Edited by Dazren on Friday 15th November 18:14