mounting US plates on euro/swiss 512TR?

For those of you that have euro cars in the US, how did you mount US size license plates? @EZORED, @ross, @MITengineer, @Everettpa1? Were you able to get the US brackets, or aftermarket brackets to work? In the rear, the taller US plate should just be able to hang lower. Front is less critical but I would prefer to just put the plate on and not worry about being hassled; the space for the euro plate is inset, so at the very least a bracket would have to hold the taller plate forward a bit.

 

thanks Chris @MITengineer I guess you're not running a front plate. Are you saying you bolted thru the plate? Can't really see at that distance. Not sure I really have a Euro bracket, just a plastic surround with the Swiss dealer's name which is held in with two bolts, which I think are the ones on either side edge of your plate.

Oh, is there some trick to open the glove box? The door pivots from the bottom?

btw, hopefully you figured out I changed my username a couple days ago.. meant to mention that earlier..

 

Vern @Llenroc nice 512TR! I assume you went to Cornell? I'm 1992 BS Computer Science (College of Engineering)

 

Wow so interesting you are related! Yes it was Ezra's house, but he passed before it was completed and has been owned by Delta Phi fraternity for more than a century now. I drank many beers there at parties in my younger days! It's amazing how many Ag products Cornell developed, I put in a small fruit tree orchard earlier this year and researching tree varieties so many had Cornell connections.

 

Oh thank you! Glad I asked and did not pull too hard on the glove box!

It looks like those of you with Euro cars have a piece I don't; I just have a plastic piece from the dealer there, bolted in with two bolts 85 mm apart, see photo.. similar in front, just smaller but same 85 mm spacing. Maybe I should order the US piece? Thank you for the ricambi links @lagunacc!

Greg
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thank you @lagunacc @ross and @MITengineer

@lagunacc do you know if the US front and rear brackets you linked to in your first reply have the same 85 mm bolt spacing for attaching to the car as the Euro cars? I can check with Ricambi as well.

 

@lagunacc I took off the front and rear brackets, those are the only holes to screw into in the bumpers, 85mm apart in both cases, two M6 bolts (10mm socket head). That part 63025500 looks different than any rear US plate holder I've seen, usually they are an H shaped bracket with 4 nylon inserts at the tips to screw the plate into, after bolting the center to the car. Do I understand that I'll bolt that part to the car with the existing bolts, then the plate just snaps in?

63025200 on the front of the 512M is the front Euro plate holder? That looks like the nylon inserts I described above, but the spacing is too small, at least vertically, for a US plate; I guess you are suggesting drill the plate for those mount locations? Ahh but my bumper holes are already drilled only 85mm apart so without drilling new holes it wouldn't work, the screws would be in the middle of the plate.

I may just have to go to a local auto parts store and see if I can find something temporary to get me through the next couple weeks, winter will be here soon!

thank you,
Greg

 

@lagunacc that makes sense now realizing the square holes are for the typical plastic inserts. It's metal? So yes I'd have to drill it for the mounting holes in the bumper, and I guess add some spacers to space the holder a bit away from the bumper.

The US front one won't directly work the way my bumper is drilled. I'll look at the Carbonio, or try to find something I can adapt more easily to the existing holes.

Thank you for all your time!

 

@lagunacc yeah I was looking at those last night.. I think they'd work in back, and maybe in the front with the factory euro front parts you showed on the F512M in post #15.

 

First I need to get it registered.. hopefully today, just waiting on certified translations of the Swiss registration and bill of sale, then fingers crossed things go well at the RMV..

Interestingly the car seems to be missing the assembly number plate, there are not even holes for the rivets where I think it should be. Is it possible they forgot to install that plate?