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Atlantic Sat Sep 27, 2008 6:55 am

... with view of downtown LA:



...how did they know?:


B Ramsey Sat Sep 27, 2008 9:10 pm

nice car, just curious, why do poeple and tv shows blur the lic. #?

MAYHEM Sun Sep 28, 2008 7:27 am

B Ramsey wrote: nice car, just curious, why do poeple and tv shows blur the lic. #?

Possiblity that someone could trace the plate to an address that is the location of the car or the identity of the owner. The internet is a wealth of peoples personal info.

Atlantic Sun Sep 28, 2008 10:19 am

Tracing is not really a good reason - I dive my bug around and anyone could just take a note of the number.

People used pictures of another car I had for sale for bogus sale ads - and I feel, obscuring the plate number makes such misuse harder (just ask the buyer for the plate number on a car to run some check on it and here has already a problem).

madscience Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:27 pm

Atlantic wrote: Tracing is not really a good reason - I dive my bug around and anyone could just take a note of the number.

People used pictures of another car I had for sale for bogus sale ads - and I feel, obscuring the plate number makes such misuse harder (just ask the buyer for the plate number on a car to run some check on it and here has already a problem).

It's a good enough reason for me. I always blur my Lisc plate. Putting a picture on the internet is not he same thing as driving around town. If someone lives near your location, what better way to find a car worth stealing ?

If you want to know the cars history you should run the Vin number anyway. No need to run a Tag number.

oldeskool65 Sat Oct 04, 2008 3:57 pm

I took a sightseeing trip in my bug from the beginning of the 2 all the way through wrightwood, hit some snow, made it to the cajon pass and back home, It was fun, wish I had pictures.

Atlantic Sat Oct 04, 2008 5:45 pm

oldeskool65 wrote: I took a sightseeing trip in my bug from the beginning of the 2 all the way through wrightwood, hit some snow, made it to the cajon pass and back home, It was fun, wish I had pictures.

Yeah - it is really great up there. Unfortunately you cannot go to Wrightwood anymore (part of the mountain came down with the heavy rains 3 years ago). But Newcombs - the bar/restaurant up there - is always a cool hang-out.

oldeskool65 Sun Oct 05, 2008 1:10 am

Ya, I tried going through recently and had to go back because of the closure



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