Macfreak007

I have seen it done before, someone put a euro plate on a us na 944 but i want to know where they got them from, how they fit, and maybe to see some pictures,i think it makes the front bumper look alot nicer personally, but i need to see mreo for sure. Anyone?

hoffman912

euro license plate? Perry951's the guy to ask.

Sami951

Wild-*** guess - the euro plates are wider than the US counterparts, so you'd either need to make some extra space in the front bumper, or better yet, get an euro bumper from somewhere. I recall seeing a website that sold custom euro style plates with whatever numbers you wanted, but didn't bookmark it ... hopefully somebody else knows it and posts a link

(now that I think of it, it might come in handy to have an extra set of Germany-look plates, like "S GO 951" ... bolt them up when there's going to be speed cameras along the way ... heheh)

Macfreak007

now your thining sami, i just need somthing that will fit in that space in between the bumperpads, or overlap just a little bit, say some thing like RED 944 or CEF 944 < my initials, i know there is someone on here that has a euro plate on their us na, I'll look for it, let me know if you find out first

afx

I had a german plate on my first 944. It was imported from germany and they just left the from plate on and put a US plate on the back. I liked having it up front but I eventually got pulled over and they told me I could not have it on the front. You might wanna check your local laws about front plates. Cops seem the notice the long foreign plate a lot more than no plate at all.

Luis de Prat

Macfreak007, since you're in Louisville, you have it pretty easy. There's an auto accessories store on Hurstbourne Lane at the intersection with Shelbyville Road. I think it's called Graham. I believe they carry Euro plates or can order them for you. Both my 83 and my S2 are Louisville cars. The 83 is now in the Caribbean and ironically, the S2 now lives in Spain and was re-registered with real Euro plates.

Sami, since you mentioned changing plates, I've noticed your rear plate is off-center. Did you fit it that way for a reason, or did you inherit it like that? Looks interesting. Almost like it's a test car and you go through different plates at each track, hehehe...

Olli Snellman

Luis,
Sami's rear plate is off center because this Finnish europlate have fastening holes at the same location as we have with non europlate. When we had these europlates couple of years ago they just make plates wider but left the holes to the same place as we used to have. I also changed my plates to eurostyle plates but i made a special aluminum plate on which i installed my europlate which is at center.With that aluminum plate there was no need to drill extra holes.

Sami951

Oops, busted! I think it's because of these new common European plates with the country id added to the left side, the old plate was probably dead center but to get this new one fit right I'd need to fabricate some sort of a bracket or drill new holes (not likely!) ... it doesn't catch my eye anymore so there's a good chance it'll just stay that way

edit: Olli beat me to it. Maybe I'll monkey the adapter plate from him

mike10562004

hate to bring back a dead thread but i have one ill post pics tomorrow if you want

IGROWL

I have one also. I have it attached to the lowest part of the bumper with plastic ties. They give you the plate with a black plastic frame with it. The frame has lots of holes in the back of it so I fed the ties through the holes and around the bottom of the N/A bumper.

Mighty Shilling

Greg East had one made with his plate number, then had a sticker put on to make it look like a Colorado plate. instead of the EU flag and the country code on the right side, it has the CO flag, and it has a sticker that looks like Mountains. as I understand it, he's never been hassled.

Don 944 LA

I'm on my 3rd one.
got them all from EBay

DarylJ

Here's how I did it....

Take off the bumper. Remove the pads and the lights. Cut the rivets off:


Now you need to cover up the holes from the bumper pad mounts, rivets, and the HUGE gap next to your marker lights:



I roughed things up, and formed it with cardboard:



A coat of glass, then a coat of body filler (horribly mixed, came out terribly after sanding...you can see the air bubbles) and some finishing putty after to fix the ugliness:



Then you give your 6 year old a D/A sander and tell her to go to town:



Then you take your whole car apart, hang miscellaneous small pieces from wires in your garage ceiling, put the bigger pieces on saw horses, build a ghetto paint booth in your garage, and paint everything, including your boots and other things you forgot to cover:



Put it all back together and end up with this (yes, the car is filthy right now):