I bent up a piece of aluminium into a V so that the front plate on my sidewinder sits vertical.

Jon

beelzedub you got any custom designs in mind ? i may well be interested 

The front of a sidewinder is notoriously bad for a plate.

If you fit it in the recessed position, I bet it lies at a 45 degree angle and you wouldn't be able to see it properly, if at all, from the front.

This bothered me, so I created some stand off type brackets (lengths of strip steel bent into a v shape) to make the plate stand more upright.

Ive had no issues yet.....

Same on prowler but handy as it hides my none uk spec no.plate 

I mounted my number plate on the front bumper for the very reason of visibility 

Mines vertical,(can I say that on a public forum?) I think it looks good.

beelzedub you got any custom designs in mind ? i may well be interested 

no not really as i've never really thought about. if you want to go down this route then have a little think and then give me a holla.
i would need the dimensions of your can to build something though.

Beelzedub can you cut out stencil like in stainless and form it or just sheet stainless formed ?

I like the idea of an exhaust cover, save trying to polish all that spaghetti 
Shame to hide it though, although I do worry when driving in town and soppy mums walk behind  the car with a toddler in a push chair.
Mesh might work and would show the exhaust still but be a bugger to keep clean, a plate with laser cut words or something might look cool.  Can you get plate laser cut Mike?
Maybe on mine bracketed on the bottom of the rear cage
Dave

i can do both, although laser cutting costs alot more, i can plasma cut here but it takes alot longer to clean up the edges and make it look nice.

probably a dumb question but does it have an MOT? and was it like that when it was inspected?

Mot is not a true roadworthy insection in my opinion look at the german tuv inspection which cheeks on none standard parts ect

As far as i'm aware the reg plate has always been like that throughout all its mots

just ask yourself, if you cant read it then its illegal 
I think you will find anything more than 4" outside the body is a no , no.
A bit of common sense tells you that you cant win with the law 

hopefully now ok

thats better, you can blame that MEL for that ,I bet he was lying on back when he did that bit