Andreas H . Zappel

Martin <[email protected]> wrote:

    >>>>>This car is already in France with US license plates. It is not allowed to
    >>>>>be driven but by an American citizen. Considering the general situation of
    >>>>But this is a problem of the customs.
    >>>The car could belong to the US govt.
    >>Than it isn't only a custom problem.
    >Where did OP mention customs?

The OP wrote: "...It is not allowed to be driven but by an American
citizen..." and this is because of customs. If a french person is
driving this car the car has to be imported and that means the customs
for import and the taxes has to be paid and the car has to get a
french license number.

Greetings from Cologne

Andreas

Jeremyrh Geo

Mxsmanic wrote:
    > J* writes:
    > > This car is already in France with US license plates. It is not allowed to
    > > be driven but by an American citizen.
    > Vandals and other bad guys wouldn't know that, although they might
    > recognize the plates as American. That doesn't necessarily make the
    > car more of a target. American plates in France are likely to be
    > residents, not tourists, and as such they wouldn't necessarily have
    > anything of great value in the car.

You mean no stocks of blue jeans, chewing gum, and nylon stockings?

G;

Stanislas de Kertanguy

Mxsmanic <[email protected]> wrote:

    > On holidays, for some reason, car fires
    > have recently become all the rage,

The word "insurance" comes to mind...

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"Andy Pandy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
    > "tim (moved to sweden)" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    > news:[email protected]...
    >> >> Having said that, it's only a very small minority of people who would
    >> >> be
    >> >> inclined to vandalise anyone's car for any reason; and also, if I
    >> >> recall
    >> >> correctly, U.S. license plates don't actually say "USA" on them, do
    >> >> they?
    >> >> So it might not even be recognised.
    >> >
    >> > But he'd have to have a USA sticker on the car by law surely?
    >> Does such a thing exit.?
    > AIUI every country in the world has a country "code" they must display on
    > their
    > vehicle if they drive it in a foreign country, so the local authorites can
    > trace
    > the vehicle.
    >> I've only ever seen European and Middle East letters
    > Not many other nationalities will take their cars to Europe!

No but USAerns, Canadians and Mexicans do drive across their
respective boarders. Never seens a USA/Canada/Mexico sticker
in the wrong country. Though as you can tell (usually) the origin from
the license plate perhaps this suffices?

tim
    >

Martin

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 07:58:37 +0200, [email protected]
(Stanislas de Kertanguy) wrote:

    >Mxsmanic <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> On holidays, for some reason, car fires
    >> have recently become all the rage,
    >The word "insurance" comes to mind...

The words "global warming" came to mind. :-)
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Martin

Martin

On 8 Aug 2005 22:54:17 -0700, [email protected] wrote:

    >Mxsmanic wrote:
    >> J* writes:
    >> > This car is already in France with US license plates. It is not allowed to
    >> > be driven but by an American citizen.
    >> Vandals and other bad guys wouldn't know that, although they might
    >> recognize the plates as American. That doesn't necessarily make the
    >> car more of a target. American plates in France are likely to be
    >> residents, not tourists, and as such they wouldn't necessarily have
    >> anything of great value in the car.
    >You mean no stocks of blue jeans, chewing gum, and nylon stockings?

Bars of soap?

Usasian in Florida to a Frenchman: "Can you get a woman for a bar of
soap in Paris?"
Frenchman: "No"
Usasian in Florida to a Frenchman: " You could in 1944"
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Martin

Martin

On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 17:28:30 -0700, Gordon Forbess
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 17:44:33 +0200, Tom Peel
    ><[email protected]> wrote:
    >>In fact, the number plates in Germany used by US forces personnel have
    >>been changed twice to make them less conspicuous. Originally they were
    >>green with black lettering and a 3 letter 3 digit licence number, and
    >>they did say "USA" on them. Then they changed to white with black
    >>lettering. Then they were changed again to look almost identical to the
    >>local German number plates, and a German-style licence number, with what
    >>appears to be a (non-existent) city code "HK".
    >US Army Europe plates (1970-71) are shown here, somewhere in a
    >campground in central Sweden, IIRC.
    >http://users.adelphia.net/~gforbess/images/bugntent.jpg

and a genuine US Army bivvy!
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Martin

Jeremyrh Geo

Martin a écrit :

    > On 8 Aug 2005 22:54:17 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
    > >
    > >Mxsmanic wrote:
    > >> J* writes:
    > >>
    > >> > This car is already in France with US license plates. It is not allowed to
    > >> > be driven but by an American citizen.
    > >>
    > >> Vandals and other bad guys wouldn't know that, although they might
    > >> recognize the plates as American. That doesn't necessarily make the
    > >> car more of a target. American plates in France are likely to be
    > >> residents, not tourists, and as such they wouldn't necessarily have
    > >> anything of great value in the car.
    > >
    > >You mean no stocks of blue jeans, chewing gum, and nylon stockings?
    > Bars of soap?
    > Usasian in Florida to a Frenchman: "Can you get a woman for a bar of
    > soap in Paris?"
    > Frenchman: "No"
    > Usasian in Florida to a Frenchman: " You could in 1944"

Sounds unlikely - if you believe Mixi they'd still have been working on
the one they had in 1939.

G;

Tim Challenger

On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 00:55:04 +0200, Mxsmanic wrote:

    > Martin writes:
    >
    >> The car could belong to the US govt.
    >
    > Then it would generally have diplomatic plates, orange on green in
    > France.

Only if it belonged to the diplomatic corps.

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Tim Challenger

On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 00:47:40 +0200, Mxsmanic wrote:

    > chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco
    > writes:
    >
    >> Certainly, if you've got vandals in the area intent on damaging
    >> something, anything that catches their attention could be trouble. We
    >> gave up replacing our front door bell- it's been removed twice. Either
    >> we get one that is almost impossible to remove or one that blends
    >> perfectly with the colour of the wood on the door.
    >
    > The bell is on the outside? Why?

Because that's what Brits call a "bell-push" ? Duh!
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Tim Challenger

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 01:28:35 +0100, Andy Pandy wrote:

    > "tim (moved to sweden)" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    > news:[email protected]...
    >>>> Having said that, it's only a very small minority of people who would be
    >>>> inclined to vandalise anyone's car for any reason; and also, if I recall
    >>>> correctly, U.S. license plates don't actually say "USA" on them, do they?
    >>>> So it might not even be recognised.
    >>> But he'd have to have a USA sticker on the car by law surely?
    >> Does such a thing exit.?
    >
    > AIUI every country in the world has a country "code" they must display on their
    > vehicle if they drive it in a foreign country, so the local authorites can trace
    > the vehicle.
    >
    >> I've only ever seen European and Middle East letters
    >
    > Not many other nationalities will take their cars to Europe!

I've seen enough USA and Canadian ones - although not so recently.
I used to see quite a few in Germany before the iron curtain was drawn.
Nowadays, I mostly notice motorbikes.

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Tim C.

Martin

On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 00:45:44 +0200, Mxsmanic <[email protected]>
wrote:

    >J* writes:
    >> Is it dangerous to drive a car with US licenses plates, in France?
    >No. You may receive a citation if you are residing in France, though,
    >since you have to register the car with the French government if you
    >are a resident. And since the only way to drive a car with US plates
    >in Europe is to ship the car to Europe (which implies a long stay),

or be employed by the US govt.
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Martin

On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 00:47:01 +0200, Mxsmanic <[email protected]>
wrote:

    >J* writes:
    >> I am asking if ,according to hearsay and experience if a person, may have
    >> her car vandalized , on the account of having an american license plate on
    >> it?
    >No. American plates do not make a car any more of a target than any
    >other foreign plate. They do imply that the owner is a long-term
    >resident

How does a US plate imply residency? Do GB and NL etc. plates in
France imply the same?
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Martin

Tim Challenger

On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 01:10:42 GMT, No Spam wrote:

    > In North America, it typically does not work that way.
    > The plate is usually issued by the state or province or
    > territory, and a national emblem is not required.

Unless you travel to another country? Perhaps Canada and Mexico have a
special agreement with the USA?
But it's generally true what Andy Pandy said. It's nothing to do with
Europe.

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Tim C.

Martin

On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 00:48:43 +0200, Mxsmanic <[email protected]>
wrote:

    >tim (moved to sweden) writes:
    >> Does such a thing exit?
    >Yes.
    >> I've only ever seen European and Middle East letters
    >Most people don't ship cars to Europe. And Americans are notorious
    >for ignoring local laws.

As are French people according to you.
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Martin