03-01-2016, 07:13 PM | #1 |
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What is the proper location for the front license plate on a 29 sedan?
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03-01-2016, 07:20 PM | #2 |
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Mounted on the head light bar in the middle.
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03-01-2016, 07:24 PM | #3 |
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Centered on the headlight bar
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I realize it is middle ( common sense ) but I put my vintage plate beside it. Wayne
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Pop always told me to off-set it. Wind will eventually angle it in, and if it is centered it will contact and start to bugger the fins in the radiator.
He always put it to one side so that if it got pushed in it would stop when it contacted the radiator shell and not touch those fins. Ken
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03-01-2016, 09:28 PM | #7 |
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From the beginning of production until May 1929, the license plate was hung below the headlamp bar. From June 1929 through the end of production, the top holes in the license plate and the bolts for the clamps on the headlamp bar are above the bar. There is an illustration on page 18-3 of the "Restoration Guidelines".
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Great picture, SeaSlug! I think that one could use a little elbow grease.
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The 28 cars and early 29 cars had this type of license plate clamp, and the place hung below the headlamp bar. In 40 years of driving this car I have never had the plate move towards the radiator, and I have driven it over 60 mph.
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I don't have a front plate. A few years ago Ohio changed and said that if you have a YOM plate you only need to display it on the rear.
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"... for some reason my 28 Phaeton works it's way forward as I drive."
If you do a lot of water crossings here, the thing sticks out (forward, from the water turbulence?) and then breaks off. Someone decided to make a general purpose replacement. number plate 4.jpg |
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