I prepared secure plate hardware for this before leaving home. This
allowed me to lock the rear plate access door closed and also attached
both plates with 4 Allen bolts each. Then I put a gob of glue in the
Allen heads to make it tough to take them out even with the right wrench.

Mark

John Goubeaux wrote:
> Nice Mark, Thanks !
>
> The part about the California license plates made me laugh ... :)
> I recently had a friend ship her car ( with CA plates ) back to Zurich.
> She was so proud to have CA plates ( a big status symbol in EuroLand )
> on her car.
> I warned her to remove them BUT she did not listen and sure enough they
> were stolen in short time.
>
> I look forward to hearing more stories.
>
> -john
>
> n 7/18/15 7:13 AM, mark drillock wrote:
>> We shipped our Westy over and camped in 10 countries. We covered about
>> 6,000 miles in 2 months, mostly on secondary roads and smaller. We
>> stayed at public and private campgrounds and often took trains or buses
>> from them into the cities for tourist activities. The camping was easy
>> and the people were friendly. Our Calif plates stood out and people
>> gawked at them everywhere we went, at times like we were in a UFO. I
>> can't tell you how many times someone saw the front plate and then went
>> to the back to see if it matched, then scratching their heads.