Japan Plates on my Z.
 

I have a license plate from Japan that I got from a friend that was stationed over there. He had it on his 300ZX and had to get rid of the car before he came back to the states. He brought his license plate back with him and I asked if I can buy it from him. I bought it for 50 bucks (my offer). At first I got it for show purposes to mount in front of the G I had but now I am trying to find out if there are fees I can pay to transfer my registration to these plates. Does anyone have information on that? I might be out of luck on this but if anyone has information that would be great. Thanks

What state? You cannot register the plates as your own in any of them as your legal tags, but I would be led to believe that any state that allows custom front plates would be okay to have them up front.

/then again, I can only rely on what Google provides given the info I've given it (GIGO)

I doubt if you can make that your official registered plates in any state.
I do have a euro plate from my BMW but used it as an accessory decorative plate under the official registered plate. Never been pulled over yet.

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:icon18: As far as I know, this is not possible. I have looked into doing the same for Europlates in NY and they won't allow it. They will allow you to have them on the car (as decoration) as long as your normal state plates are still showing.

If you lived here, Alberta, Canada...you could do it. And lots do. We don't need a front plate here and that's why. There are some gawd awful plates ranging from the tourist "I've been there" to the truckers naked lady (that you see on big mud flaps).

IMHO, the Euro-plate and the Japanese ones would look good on the front. Personally, and because I live here, I never put a front plate on. If you don't need one... it looks disgusting.


Edit: me bad, I just read what you wanted to do. I don't think that's possible anywhere. Good luck.

There are no states that will allow you to register those, as your own plates. Even if you could here in Cali, you would still need two matching, in which you said you only have one.
When I imported my e36m3 from Japan, I was running on Japanese plates for two months, waiting to get the registration translated. I got stopped and pulled over about once a week for the plates. Never got a ticket though, as it was legal to do, since I did have the paperwork from the DMV.

It's gonna look gay either way. Don't be a poser...just hang it on your wall.

Think how gay a US plate would look on a Japanese car in Japan.

i was gonna buy a japan plate from this custom plate shop in Philly, because I Live in PA i can have a accessory front plate, and no you cannot have your registration transferred to a japanese plate.

No, unfortunately. Although we should make that suggestion to Gov. Brown. He's always looking for a way to make more $$$ for our great state to spend... :)

are those the longer license plates? (what country are those?) If so those would look sick, I see a couple jettas around here that use them, they put them in the front windshield vertically :tup:

The longer plates are Euro plates. Japanese plates are the same size/shape as US plates. Cool thing about Japanese plates, you can get them with the green characters (white plate, green characters) in a translucent green. They have a power source hooked up to them, and the characters light up green at night. Looks pretty cool.

ahh ic, yeah I was referring to euro plates then. :tiphat:

foreign plates are extremely poseur-ish in my opinion. if you're gonna be a japanophile/weeaboo, just wear stupid clothing and hairstyles and claim to speak japanese or whatever.

I agree to an extent, but I think the euro plates on certain cars look good, Ive seen it at a couple car shows, having it in the windshield kind of like this:

http://www.golfmk5.com/forums/image....ine=1263255058

but vertically and usually the car is more tunerish. :icon17:

I thought I would be out of luck. Thanks for the input everyone. Only reason I like that look is because I saw it at a Nissan/infiniti meet and saw a sexy G35 coupe that was gliding on the pavement with the front/side mount Jap plate. Call me poser but I love that look LOL, its all about personalizing in my book. You can't win everyones positive opinion but might as well try and satisfy your own, amiright?

:iagree: It's your car and your money. Whatever makes you happy and satisfied. You can't and would never please everyone here.:tup:

:iagree: I just like the euro plates, I didnt know my opinion mattered so much. everyone has one, I have mine.:happydance: