It also cuts down on reflection if you are constantly on dusty road construction projects.

All good points. Any punching tool would eventually wear out and you wouldn’t actually catch the issue until much later. The big one there leaving behind burrs or an extruded hole which will darken those perforations (have some experience with this).

Texas and some other states don’t even stamp metal anymore. Its vinyl on aluminum. No embossing. It’s all printed. This probably gives more leeway with adjusting the luminosity and reflectivity to find a good middle ground for cameras.

Tinted plate covers exist for cops to add that ticket if they ever do pull you over. Like they won’t pull you over for having one, but they’ll certainly ding you for it when they stop you for something else (or at least that’s how a cop friend of mine explained his process). Same goes for overly-tinted windows.

As you said, license plates are embossed. You are not cutting the metal. To actually perforate a metal plate in the shape of individual letters might be cost prohibitive because anything that cuts metal would eventually dull and need to be sharpened or replaced. You could use a water jet but that is more expensive and…

Wouldn’t it just be simpler to make the numbers/letters the only part of the plate that was reflective?

License Plate Scanners saved my cousin’s life.

Like in Japan?

Do Something about People Driving around with these Tinted Covers

20 years, David Tracy hides in a corner in the post-apocalyptic hell that is the United States of America. Armor-clad police march in columns down the street. Jim Spanfeller, having somehow failed his way into a role as Ivanka Trump’s Vice President, shouts over loudspeakers about beans. People writhe in agony on the…

Literally the next sentence explains “because it desperately needs a reduced corporate emissions average”

People take me for a “car guy”, but in reality I’m only a “3 specific models of horrible 80s van” guy. I know those inside and out, but show me almost any other well-regarded classic sports car or race car and I just go “Yeah, that’s car shaped alright. It’s a nice one.”

I consider myself someone who is comfortable doing anything. I have painted cars (with good results), rebuilt suspensions, I just rebuilt a steering rack, I am one of those weirdo’s who actually likes doing electrical, I am no stranger to a welder and making custom parts, and I have even done light interior work…

It’s my experience that Hagerty’s value tool is typically about 10% optimistic over current market realities. Maybe its a time lag thing, but I try and temper expectations based on that rule of thumb.

BaT is the automotive equivalent to those restaurants that offer $25 hamburgers.

3 to 5x in 10 years would be my guess. Really 4.5x as I see $100-150K. This one is on the low end of Hagerty’s valuation already, no where to go but up!

I think, barring apocalypse (which, it’s only halfway through 2020, so don’t get too excited), this car is guaranteed to appreciate in value. It’s just a question of by how much. Will you make tenfold on your purchase? Not likely. But I’d say that it’s not unlikely that you could make 50% back on top of your purchase,…

This is 100% the correct take. The Blackwing was cool only in the sense that it was Cadillac-exclusive, and that it had reverse-flow heads (Something shared only by the Scorpion Diesel from Ford). Everything else about it was utterly yawn-inducing in today’s market.

As I’ve said before, this is the whole issue I have with GM. They lag and lag behind the industry, and then when they finally do what everyone else has been doing, they want all kinds of pomp and circumstance for it. Then, after they get it right, the entire project loses steam and gets cancelled.

I feel like Chevy and GM in general is just a very safe brand as far as taking chances is concerned. Take a look at what they project the interior would be on their autonomous car. It’s sickeningly tip-toey and boring, and they could have done so much more!