Front license plate mounting

[sunbby]

I'm tired of being nervous about not having a front plate, which I believe is de rigueur in Illinois. I have no bracket at all, and eBay items usually go pretty steep, so I'm looking to rig something up.

I'm using a boat trailer license plate bracket, by the way. Galvanized steel, and cheap, too. But hardly original.
Ken

Ken, sorry jumped forums on you, but is that on the front or rear?

Also does anyone know the size of the bolts into the front valance offhand?

 

[Ken Ellis]

Just the front. I have the lighted bracket on the back. If you go to a West Marine, or a decent marina with trailer supplies, sometimes even WalMart, etc... they'll have something that should work. I have fabricated sheetmetal below the front bumper, so no existing mounting holes for me... and not much structure, either.

If you think you might do fog/driving lights, you might want to make kind of an upside down badge bar, attached via existing bumper bolts, that is beefy enough to hold your plate and extra lights.

Ken

 

[sunbby]

Thanks Ken.

Not sure that a regular bracket will work, at least not without combining it with something else. The front valance mounting holes are ~14" apart, maybe for those wide UK type plates? Seems US plate mounting holes are only 7" apart.

I'll just cobble something up, then it will match the rest of the car.