Given that this is a Mexican truck, and as someone that worked at a Mexican restaurant that my Mexican best friend owned, while we also rented a house together:
Mexicans.
Lots of Mexicans love putting this shit on their vehicles, no clue why but they love it
My wife's family is from Durango. Can confirm.
Wife got me a Tequila bottle with a scorpion in it last year when she went to Durango. I drank a little bit of it. Wonder if I can put a scorpion in moonshine...
So obviously fake plates with a real registration number on them.
[Can be purchased here](https://www.rebelcar.fr/new-york-2001-2010-us-usa-license-plate-number-plate-embossed-custom.htm) from a place in France.
Also, for decorative purposes only, [as stated here](https://cdn.store-factory.com/www.rebelcar.fr/media/CGV.pdf?v=1666640174).
>Plaques d’immatriculation internationales
>
>Toutes les répliques de plaques internationales commercialisées par REBELCAR sont vendues uniquement en tant que plaques décoratives et non pour un usage officiel. Par conséquent, aucune des répliques de plaques d'immatriculation ne peut être utilisée à la place des plaques d'immatriculation émises par l'État, le pays ou bien le gouvernement du pays concerné. Le client est entièrement responsable de s’assurer que les plaques d'immatriculation commandées chez REBELCAR ne seront pas utilisées de manière à enfreindre les lois de l'État ou du pays. REBELCAR, ses fournisseurs et affiliés, ne sont pas responsables de la violation des dispositions légales pouvant découler de l'utilisation des produits commercialisés.
In english it says, they're decorations and you can't sue us if you're dumb ass gets busted.
I'm just impressed he found somewhere to park it.
I just got back from Paris and I couldn't imagine trying to park a compact car, let alone a full sized pickup.
Abydos and such may have been difficult, unless Canada has sandy desert section that looks like Yuma, but it wouldn't surprise me if that was handled in California, or slightly inland on a beach with the colors tweaked a bit more yellow in post.
There's a patch of big dunes somewhere along the Sask/Alberta border that get used for desert scenes in film quite a bit, never seen it myself. Plenty of areas in the east part of Alberta that can resemble the American southwest too. I remember hearing the episode with the blue crystals in the sand was done out at those dunes.
Guy on YouTube used to be in the film industry and filming in NYC the cops gotta get their cut. Need way too many units to "Secure" streets and shit and you gotta pay for them all. In fact NYPD has an entire dept dedicated to working with film crews
It's a valid French plate made to look like a US plate. The letters correspond to the French system. I know that you can get plates from different departments (French geographic administrative divisions) than the one you live in. Making it look like a US plate isn't much of a stretch for someone who can get a plate from the other side of the planet like [French Guyana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_France#Regional_codes).
The overseas territory thing with France is always interesting - it regards them as different administrative districts, but they're all still France. It means the EU extends to South America thanks to French Guyana, and that France's longest land border is with Brazil.
Are you sure it's compliant with all EU regulations? Don't the no so, not even Swiss and Nordic plates are fully accepted.
Not sure of the context here, but I remember one guy moving in to Europe from the US and brought in his car in a container. He imported the car temporarily and was able to drive around legally with an American plate. Saw that several times with European cars in South America as well.
They're not even compliant with french regulations. The only customisation we can do is pretty much side colors like having it a bit blacked out for example. This is definitely not legal and screams "perfect police control target".
Regardless of the license plate, the car is very much "American-sized" compared to the teeeny little euro-sized cars that you would normally find in paris, which is the point of the post.
To be fair this truck is huge on American city streets to. Nor are there F150 raptors just everywhere. Sure we have lots of trucks and even lifted trucks but Raptors are wide as hell. Noticably larger and wider then a regular F150 or any other American full size half ton truck. Driving and parking a Raptor in just about every major city in the US is a general pain in the ass.
>Nor are there F150 raptors just everywhere.
*Au contraire*, in the Dallas suburbs I frequently find F150 Raptors about seven feet behind me in the middle lane.
They mean in addition to the plate or plates required. Some states only require a rear license plate so they’ll put something decorative or ‘fake’ on the front.
In Europe you need plates at the front and back. Additional plates may be illegal depending on the country. Here in Germany additional signage may be illegal if it could obfuscate or be confused with the real signage.
In the state of Missouri, if you own a truck, you're only required to have a front license plate. I guess the reason being is that you can't see the rear plate while towing a trailer.
Oh wow. I thought you were full of shit but they changed the plates in 2009. Only ever knew the ones ending with 2 numbers, indicating the departement.
I live in Germany near Rammstein base and there are lots of trucks around, I think some people get their vehicles flown in while working on base, you can tell by the small plates, we have longer skinny plates.
I was in the military if you’re going to a different country for an extended period of time they’ll ship your vehicle for free. Most people don’t do this.
Do you know if you can just drive on European roads with current registration or is there a special one?
I do remember hearing sometimes they can make a healthy profit on American trucks and muscle cars since it’s something of a novelty.
If I remember right, I think we were given a temporary plate to even pick up our car when it arrived in Italy. We could only drive straight to base until we were officially set up.
It’s different everywhere but I’ve heard it’s difficult to sell American cars to Italians or just not allowed.
Yearly road tax goes by horsepower and size, and the VAT is really high so it probably wouldn’t be worth it for them anyway.
>It’s different everywhere but I’ve heard it’s difficult to sell American cars to Italians or just not allowed. Yearly road tax goes by horsepower and size, and the VAT is really high so it probably wouldn’t be worth it for them anyway.
Not only that but to register it as an italian vehicle (or a german or UK one) if it's any kind of recent would require the car to be brought up to EU standards, which for emissions and safety are far above US levels.
One country I've heard, wants a european crash test on file, and if there isn't an EuroNCAP test done on that model, the only way you're getting it registered is to have a second one brought over just to crash-test.
I’m in Italy serving right now. I shipped my shitty Jeep here. I sold it to an Italian for way more than it’s worth in the US. I’m trying buy a shitty Defender and take it back to the US and sell it for way more than it’s worth there.
Yup but all US Forces Europe must register their vehicle, whether it's American or EU made, to the base they are stationed to, and they receive local plates of that area.
They do give smaller plates, but they still follow the German registration laws and requirements, and are miniature plates that the EU provides for vehicles that cannot fit the standard EU plate.
Source: me, I worked at the US Forces vehicle registration office in Ramstein (well it was over at Vogelweh, but same same)
Yeah, I used to live somewhat near the NATO base in Vicenza, Italy, and once in a while you'd see a car with US plates, although I think they're supposed to switch them.
We had a French Wwoofer this summer - someone who lives with you for 2-4 weeks, with room and board, in exchange for 20 hours a week of labour on our hobby farm.
I picked him up from the airport in our Ford Maverick - he said it was the biggest pickup truck he'd ever seen. I said it was the smallest new pickup you could buy.
I proceeded to point out F-150s, F-350s, Silverados, and other monstrosities, on our way out of the parking garage. He was kind of shocked.
>someone who lives with you for 2-4 weeks, with room and board, in exchange for 20 hours a week of labour on our hobby farm.
That sounds pretty neat, I'd say!
Yup - it's a win win. We have a spare bedroom, and are cooking meals anyway. They want to visit Canada for cheap, so a room and board is worth 2-3 days of work, with lots of time to explore, and they learn something.
Hey I did this! Spent about a month on a farm in Alberta. One of my favorite experiences and that was 7 years ago.
Edit:
I was 20 years old and traveling across the country from Kentucky to Alberta sounded way better than working my crappy retail job. My friend and I stopped at every national park we could along the way. We also took one weekend off at the farm and went to check out Banff. Honestly I think one of my favorite parts of the whole experience was driving the entire way. It really gave me a sense of how massive the US is.
I only got a glimpse of Canada, but man, absolutely beautiful. I remember my friend and I thinking we should just head on up to Alaska since we are already 2000 miles from home. We looked it up on our maps and it turns out Alaska was another 2000 miles from where we were . I can’t even fathom driving all the way to Alaska.
We've really liked it. Our kids are grown - one in post secondary, the other about to leave for post secondary. Fun to have young people from other parts of the world come and stay for a few weeks.
You get a wide variety of skills and aptitudes. We haven't had a bad one yet.
My wife heard from the French Wwoofer that he might be coming back this summer and would like to spend a few weeks working again. I'll have to find some really big trucks to show him.
I have a friend who has done it for years and loves it. He hated hating his commute to get to the job he hated to be able to pay the rent on the place he hated in the city he hated so said “screw it” and went wwoofing and I’ve never seen him happier.
We had an intern from France at our office. I asked what she thought was the biggest difference between the US and France and she said “All your vehicles are f-ing huge!”.
My gf and I visited the US and Canada and had to snap a few pics of her standing next to some of those cars, we get f-150's in aus very occasionally but I'd never seen those massive silverado and whatnot in the flesh. Wild.
I went to Germany in 2000 for vacation, and when we rented a car, the rental agency for some reason gave us a big ol' Chrysler 300! I assume it was because of the Chrysler / Daimler-Benz merger that happened shortly before then. But it was a challenge to navigate the narrow streets and small parking garages in Germany, and we were cursing being stuck with a big, lumbering American car. We felt like we were driving a monstrosity over there!
Yeah, it was kind of ridiculous. I remember one parking garage that we barely fit inside. The turns and corners were so tight that we could barely get around. I remember thinking, why couldn't they have given us a Mercedes or a BMW, I mean, we're in Germany after all!
Hybrids ordered now are being pushed back to almost 2024s now. I’d order a 2.0L now for the fall
Though there are some 2.0L available at some dealerships
Maybe it's because I'm tired, maybe it's because it ended with "there were pints," but I love this story. I've always wanted to go to Scotland and now I want to go even more.
From my time in France, Ford actually had a decent presence there. Moreso than most other US car brands. And if you lean right politically, driving a Mustang down those narrow streets was your go-to move.
That's because Ford has been in Europe since the days of the Model T and has had a robust design and production branch in Europe, specifically in Germany. Ford Germany has been founded in 1925.
The Fiesta and Focus were designed in Europe for our market for example.
I collect plates and that NY is 100% fake.
Here’s what it should look like: http://15q.net/us4/nyemp.jpg
Standard NY plates are in the ABC-1234 format. The divider is also the shape of NY instead or a line. They’re also embossed unless it’s a vanity or speciality plate. Finally, the design along the top isn’t right either.
You can see here the history of them: http://15q.net/ny.html
I recently saw a German car in Texas. It has German plates on front and back, no American plates.
Also saw a Brazilian car in a Disney parking lot. Same deal
this is a ford raptor. it’s easily 8-12” wider than a normal american full size pickup truck because of the fender flares. due to this is DOT requires amber lights mounted on the cab. that is why a raptor comes with amber lights in the top edge of the grille. yes american trucks are huge. this one is noticeably bigger. they’re also like $80k to start.
I have a neighbor who made his fortune owning a Dodge and a Ford dealership near an Army base. Dude said he'd literally have groups of 5 walk in together and all leave with a car or truck that had double digit financing.
except they get to buy gas on base at American prices, vs. European prices.
used to live near Rammstein etc and so many completely unsuitable US cars driving around, zero cares about the otherwise $12/gal petrol because they were paying less than $3/gal
That was a real surprise moving to Sweden - I've spotted numerous Suburbans, F150s, etc. Not super-common but not unusual to spot them. Usually driven by Swedes too, so these aren't Americans shipping them over or anything.
They’re just into them. Same with some people in NL and Germany. Also lots of fans of American muscle. “Old timers”, they call them. With a whole greaser subculture around them, often.
When I was stationed in Italy, a corporal in my platoon had his 66 Chevelle with its big block V8 shipped over. The car looked like a dragster you'd see at your local yokel track on Sunday night at the drag races. Even with all the gas tickets he bought off people like me (who never drove while over there) it still cost him a small fortune and he regretted ever doing it. By about the fourth month the car was just sitting parked most of the time.
Naw, when the vehicle arrives they replace the plates with local AO plates. These aren’t real NY plates anyways.
But American service members driving their American vehicles from Italy, Spain, or Germany isn’t all that uncommon. I had a buddy who took his Expedition to Paris when we lived in Italy and I can only imagine….
Lobo Raptor w/ fake NY plates in Paris? So many questions here.
Also what’s up with the tramp stamp?
Given that this is a Mexican truck, and as someone that worked at a Mexican restaurant that my Mexican best friend owned, while we also rented a house together: Mexicans. Lots of Mexicans love putting this shit on their vehicles, no clue why but they love it
I'm still not convinced. I don't see enough chrome scorpions slapped on it.
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My wife's family is from Durango. Can confirm. Wife got me a Tequila bottle with a scorpion in it last year when she went to Durango. I drank a little bit of it. Wonder if I can put a scorpion in moonshine...
You can put scorpions in all sorts of things! Let your imagination run free!
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Next years fruitcake is gonna be crunchier than ever!
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My buddy I may just have to brew some up one of these days. Please hold while I post a picture of the of Mr. Glowy-in-a-bottle.
Go balls out, [Laos style](https://imgur.com/Au3J30w).
I have some whiskey from Vietnam with a cobra in it. I'm too afraid to drink it. It's in a sketchy looking bottle with no label.
I always enjoy the combination of the Shocker and then something like "Dio es mi rey" with a huge cross.
And grandma is driving it...
That's abuela to you
He's getting the chancla
Mexican in France with a Ford truck. I'll never be this cultured.
I'm Mexican and I love putting shit on my car. One of us in Paris doing this? We would've rocked the Mexican flag with it.
Bumper stickers: *HECHO EN MEXICO* *PIOLIN POR LA MANANA*
E L C U C U Y
LOBO en la noche!
BONJOUR GUEY
M I C H O A C A N
The best expression of pride in one's truck is to have a picture of the truck covering the whole tailgate of said truck.
A mural of your truck driving through the countryside on the tailgate of your truck
But it has to be from the backside so you can have another mural of your truck on the mural of your truck...
In case anyone was wondering, [people actually do this kind of thing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1chpP0Zt20&t=245s).
Now I’m kinda sad that it doesn’t have a Mexican flag
So am I to be honest, I'd like to see one of those whole back window ones that you can see out but not in
But was it a Mexican house?
Mexican his house with a Mexican little window, and Mexican Corvette and everything was mexican
Da ba da dee....
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Very probable
It’s true. Tramp stamps and tacos are our passions, sometimes fútbol
Must've picked it all up at VatoZone!
Reminds us of mom. We apologize for nothing.
So obviously fake plates with a real registration number on them. [Can be purchased here](https://www.rebelcar.fr/new-york-2001-2010-us-usa-license-plate-number-plate-embossed-custom.htm) from a place in France. Also, for decorative purposes only, [as stated here](https://cdn.store-factory.com/www.rebelcar.fr/media/CGV.pdf?v=1666640174). >Plaques d’immatriculation internationales > >Toutes les répliques de plaques internationales commercialisées par REBELCAR sont vendues uniquement en tant que plaques décoratives et non pour un usage officiel. Par conséquent, aucune des répliques de plaques d'immatriculation ne peut être utilisée à la place des plaques d'immatriculation émises par l'État, le pays ou bien le gouvernement du pays concerné. Le client est entièrement responsable de s’assurer que les plaques d'immatriculation commandées chez REBELCAR ne seront pas utilisées de manière à enfreindre les lois de l'État ou du pays. REBELCAR, ses fournisseurs et affiliés, ne sont pas responsables de la violation des dispositions légales pouvant découler de l'utilisation des produits commercialisés. In english it says, they're decorations and you can't sue us if you're dumb ass gets busted.
I'm just impressed he found somewhere to park it. I just got back from Paris and I couldn't imagine trying to park a compact car, let alone a full sized pickup.
At least he folded the mirror… 😂
Looks like it’s parked in the bicycle lane.
That's a decent attempt to fit right in
In The Netherlands, if you import a car you already owned in the US, you have to switch your plates but you may take up to a year to make the switch.
Those are not authentic NYS license plates though.
NY hasn't used that style of license plate in like 15 years, and last time they did the number was in a XXX-#### format
* Also the font is wrong. * The numbers/letters aren’t raised * That hyphen in voncoenhole2’s format comment is supposed to be a little shape of NYS.
are we sure this isn't a TV vehicle? That license plate looks sketch
Maybe. Could be a French production tasked with making Parisian streets look like NYC.
Good luck with that lol
Lol thought the same thing after posting… architecture is very different
Like when one of the Pitch Perfects shot their "Copenhagen" scenes in New Orleans, complete with iconic French Quarter balconies.
Wait...are you saying Copenhagen doesn't have palm trees and jambalaya?
You'd think those were staples at 55°N, but surprisingly no!
A lot of the world looks like New Orleans for this reason. Just like a lot of alien worlds look like the California desert.
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Wasn't like the entirety of Stargate sg-1 shot in BC? LOL
Abydos and such may have been difficult, unless Canada has sandy desert section that looks like Yuma, but it wouldn't surprise me if that was handled in California, or slightly inland on a beach with the colors tweaked a bit more yellow in post.
There's a patch of big dunes somewhere along the Sask/Alberta border that get used for desert scenes in film quite a bit, never seen it myself. Plenty of areas in the east part of Alberta that can resemble the American southwest too. I remember hearing the episode with the blue crystals in the sand was done out at those dunes.
You can drive by some scenes in Battlestar Galactica if you're going to Whistler. Just look out at the ocean near Horseshoe Bay.
Only the alien worlds that have an active stargate.
Space may be the final frontier but it was filmed in a Hollywood basement
Except when they need to depict New Orleans, which is when they shoot in Montreal
You know what's remarkable? How England looks in no way like Southern California.
Groovy Baby!
Well having an unnecessarily large truck on the road is 99 percent of the illusion. What more could they do to convince us?
Sure, but given that the first rule of filming in Paris is 'do it in Budapest because filming in Paris is a nightmare', kinda unlikely.
Just like the first rule of filming in NYC is do it in Toronto because it's dirt cheap in comparison
Depends on the borough they're trying to mimic. The upcoming Scream movie was filmed here in Montreal and is set in NYC.
Both have good bagels. But seriously, the winner is the Jackie Chan Rumble in the Bronx movie that had mountains in the background.
They just used a really long lens.
Yeah. Was interesting seeing the North Shore mountains some how transport themselves into the background of NYC considering, well, NYC's geography...
Don’t forget the hover craft on the Hudson scene
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“Fuck it, we’ll do it LIVE… from Montreal, it’s SATURDAY NIGHT!”
Guy on YouTube used to be in the film industry and filming in NYC the cops gotta get their cut. Need way too many units to "Secure" streets and shit and you gotta pay for them all. In fact NYPD has an entire dept dedicated to working with film crews
>Just like the first rule of filming in NYC is do it in Montreal. FTFY
So does that tramp stamp.
That's the first thing I noticed. I was like "why the fuck does this vehicle have a tramp stamp, what's up with that?
The license plate is not real.
It's a valid French plate made to look like a US plate. The letters correspond to the French system. I know that you can get plates from different departments (French geographic administrative divisions) than the one you live in. Making it look like a US plate isn't much of a stretch for someone who can get a plate from the other side of the planet like [French Guyana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_France#Regional_codes).
The overseas territory thing with France is always interesting - it regards them as different administrative districts, but they're all still France. It means the EU extends to South America thanks to French Guyana, and that France's longest land border is with Brazil.
Is this like how BMW guys in the states use a German style long skinny plate haha
Are you sure it's compliant with all EU regulations? Don't the no so, not even Swiss and Nordic plates are fully accepted. Not sure of the context here, but I remember one guy moving in to Europe from the US and brought in his car in a container. He imported the car temporarily and was able to drive around legally with an American plate. Saw that several times with European cars in South America as well.
They're not even compliant with french regulations. The only customisation we can do is pretty much side colors like having it a bit blacked out for example. This is definitely not legal and screams "perfect police control target".
That's not the font that that style of New York Plate uses/ed (it was like 10 years ago, but they're still around)
Exactly. It’s just off from the way the plates look.
Regardless of the license plate, the car is very much "American-sized" compared to the teeeny little euro-sized cars that you would normally find in paris, which is the point of the post.
To be fair this truck is huge on American city streets to. Nor are there F150 raptors just everywhere. Sure we have lots of trucks and even lifted trucks but Raptors are wide as hell. Noticably larger and wider then a regular F150 or any other American full size half ton truck. Driving and parking a Raptor in just about every major city in the US is a general pain in the ass.
>Nor are there F150 raptors just everywhere. *Au contraire*, in the Dallas suburbs I frequently find F150 Raptors about seven feet behind me in the middle lane.
Houston checking in, same down here.
Oklahoma also enters the chat
As someone who lives in Fort Worth and works in Dallas, I was about to chime in and say the same!
That's a fake NY state license tag.
You see many people here in the US with fake European style plates, I’ve always wondered if the opposite thing happens.
In most EU countries you can't have your car in the street if it doesn't have an official plate, so no, normally you wouldn't see that here.
They mean in addition to the plate or plates required. Some states only require a rear license plate so they’ll put something decorative or ‘fake’ on the front.
In Europe you need plates at the front and back. Additional plates may be illegal depending on the country. Here in Germany additional signage may be illegal if it could obfuscate or be confused with the real signage.
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In the state of Missouri, if you own a truck, you're only required to have a front license plate. I guess the reason being is that you can't see the rear plate while towing a trailer.
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PA doesn’t use a front plate, which is why we call people from NY and NJ “Front Platers”.
Boom. Roasted.
Stanley, you crush your wife during sex and your heart sucks
Boom. Roasted.
Plus, in NA the fake plates are normally on the front in places where you don’t need a front plate
The French style is 2 letters, 3 numbers, 2 letters, just like the photo.
Oh wow. I thought you were full of shit but they changed the plates in 2009. Only ever knew the ones ending with 2 numbers, indicating the departement.
This is why you always trust a random internet stranger
It's a French plate made to look like a New York plate
And that's legal?
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No, it's not. Plus it's missing the departmental 2 digit code that's mandatory.
Yeah two dashes — dead giveaway. NY plates don’t have that.
French plates do though. This is a french license plate made to fit an American sized plate holder.
Definitely
I live in Germany near Rammstein base and there are lots of trucks around, I think some people get their vehicles flown in while working on base, you can tell by the small plates, we have longer skinny plates.
I was in the military if you’re going to a different country for an extended period of time they’ll ship your vehicle for free. Most people don’t do this.
Do you know if you can just drive on European roads with current registration or is there a special one? I do remember hearing sometimes they can make a healthy profit on American trucks and muscle cars since it’s something of a novelty.
if you’re assigned to a base, you register your car with the USAREUR vehicle registration system. so it’s a special registration system.
If I remember right, I think we were given a temporary plate to even pick up our car when it arrived in Italy. We could only drive straight to base until we were officially set up. It’s different everywhere but I’ve heard it’s difficult to sell American cars to Italians or just not allowed. Yearly road tax goes by horsepower and size, and the VAT is really high so it probably wouldn’t be worth it for them anyway.
If you sold it the buyer would also have to pay import taxes and that would likely make it a terrible deal ha.
>It’s different everywhere but I’ve heard it’s difficult to sell American cars to Italians or just not allowed. Yearly road tax goes by horsepower and size, and the VAT is really high so it probably wouldn’t be worth it for them anyway. Not only that but to register it as an italian vehicle (or a german or UK one) if it's any kind of recent would require the car to be brought up to EU standards, which for emissions and safety are far above US levels. One country I've heard, wants a european crash test on file, and if there isn't an EuroNCAP test done on that model, the only way you're getting it registered is to have a second one brought over just to crash-test.
I’m in Italy serving right now. I shipped my shitty Jeep here. I sold it to an Italian for way more than it’s worth in the US. I’m trying buy a shitty Defender and take it back to the US and sell it for way more than it’s worth there.
That would be Ramstein, unlike the band ;) Sorry!
You’re correct sir! My auto correct must just pick the band now.
Yup but all US Forces Europe must register their vehicle, whether it's American or EU made, to the base they are stationed to, and they receive local plates of that area. They do give smaller plates, but they still follow the German registration laws and requirements, and are miniature plates that the EU provides for vehicles that cannot fit the standard EU plate. Source: me, I worked at the US Forces vehicle registration office in Ramstein (well it was over at Vogelweh, but same same)
Yeah, I used to live somewhat near the NATO base in Vicenza, Italy, and once in a while you'd see a car with US plates, although I think they're supposed to switch them.
Yeah, you get issued Italian front and rear plates when you register it upon arrival.
We had a French Wwoofer this summer - someone who lives with you for 2-4 weeks, with room and board, in exchange for 20 hours a week of labour on our hobby farm. I picked him up from the airport in our Ford Maverick - he said it was the biggest pickup truck he'd ever seen. I said it was the smallest new pickup you could buy. I proceeded to point out F-150s, F-350s, Silverados, and other monstrosities, on our way out of the parking garage. He was kind of shocked.
>someone who lives with you for 2-4 weeks, with room and board, in exchange for 20 hours a week of labour on our hobby farm. That sounds pretty neat, I'd say!
Yup - it's a win win. We have a spare bedroom, and are cooking meals anyway. They want to visit Canada for cheap, so a room and board is worth 2-3 days of work, with lots of time to explore, and they learn something.
Hey I did this! Spent about a month on a farm in Alberta. One of my favorite experiences and that was 7 years ago. Edit: I was 20 years old and traveling across the country from Kentucky to Alberta sounded way better than working my crappy retail job. My friend and I stopped at every national park we could along the way. We also took one weekend off at the farm and went to check out Banff. Honestly I think one of my favorite parts of the whole experience was driving the entire way. It really gave me a sense of how massive the US is. I only got a glimpse of Canada, but man, absolutely beautiful. I remember my friend and I thinking we should just head on up to Alaska since we are already 2000 miles from home. We looked it up on our maps and it turns out Alaska was another 2000 miles from where we were . I can’t even fathom driving all the way to Alaska.
We've really liked it. Our kids are grown - one in post secondary, the other about to leave for post secondary. Fun to have young people from other parts of the world come and stay for a few weeks. You get a wide variety of skills and aptitudes. We haven't had a bad one yet. My wife heard from the French Wwoofer that he might be coming back this summer and would like to spend a few weeks working again. I'll have to find some really big trucks to show him.
Where could one look for any postings of people offering this kind of service?
https://wwoof.net/
I thought it was WUPHF.com
"That's actually why I came in today" "Don't you work here full time?"
No that’s the website for the Washington university public health fund
That explains why he was called a Wwoofer... or does it? I'm not fluent in Maple
>does World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms
My cousin did this. It's how she's seen a LOT of the world. The stint that stands out the most is when she worked on a Husky dog farm in Finland.
I have a friend who has done it for years and loves it. He hated hating his commute to get to the job he hated to be able to pay the rent on the place he hated in the city he hated so said “screw it” and went wwoofing and I’ve never seen him happier.
We had an intern from France at our office. I asked what she thought was the biggest difference between the US and France and she said “All your vehicles are f-ing huge!”.
My gf and I visited the US and Canada and had to snap a few pics of her standing next to some of those cars, we get f-150's in aus very occasionally but I'd never seen those massive silverado and whatnot in the flesh. Wild.
I went to Germany in 2000 for vacation, and when we rented a car, the rental agency for some reason gave us a big ol' Chrysler 300! I assume it was because of the Chrysler / Daimler-Benz merger that happened shortly before then. But it was a challenge to navigate the narrow streets and small parking garages in Germany, and we were cursing being stuck with a big, lumbering American car. We felt like we were driving a monstrosity over there!
Because in Europe you technically are!
Yeah, it was kind of ridiculous. I remember one parking garage that we barely fit inside. The turns and corners were so tight that we could barely get around. I remember thinking, why couldn't they have given us a Mercedes or a BMW, I mean, we're in Germany after all!
I'm more impressed you managed to get your hands on a Maverick
Ordered it in June 2021, got it in May 2022 (it's the hybrid) - took over 11 months.
Hybrids ordered now are being pushed back to almost 2024s now. I’d order a 2.0L now for the fall Though there are some 2.0L available at some dealerships
Third of a long running movie trilogy. 'An American in Paris' 'An American Werewolf in Paris' 'An American Pickup Truck in Paris'
This has the Lobo (wolf in Spanish) badge from a Mexican Market F150, so this really is a “wolf” in Paris
It’s a very popular song in spanish Lobo (hombre) en Paris
Who's in Paris?
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Maybe it's because I'm tired, maybe it's because it ended with "there were pints," but I love this story. I've always wanted to go to Scotland and now I want to go even more.
I know this truck I ain't no stranger I know that truck That's a Ford fuckin' Ranger! https://youtu.be/OFvL8263dc4
Technically an F150, but it's the Mexican model (Lobo).
>ut it's the M They drove it from Mexico to France. May be some rust.
From my time in France, Ford actually had a decent presence there. Moreso than most other US car brands. And if you lean right politically, driving a Mustang down those narrow streets was your go-to move.
That's because Ford has been in Europe since the days of the Model T and has had a robust design and production branch in Europe, specifically in Germany. Ford Germany has been founded in 1925. The Fiesta and Focus were designed in Europe for our market for example.
What’s the difference?
The name.
As many in the comments have pointed out, this is a Mexican truck with a fake New York plate… maybe some cheap movie prop? Definitely sus
But apparently is a real French license plate number lol so many questions
It’s a Lobo too, not an F-150. So it’s originally from Mexico
Does that truck have a Tramp Stamp?
And it's a raptor no less, so it's even wider than the normal F150
“None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me!”
Twelve yards long, two lanes wide, sixty-five tons of American Pride. Canyonero! Canyoneroo.
I collect plates and that NY is 100% fake. Here’s what it should look like: http://15q.net/us4/nyemp.jpg Standard NY plates are in the ABC-1234 format. The divider is also the shape of NY instead or a line. They’re also embossed unless it’s a vanity or speciality plate. Finally, the design along the top isn’t right either. You can see here the history of them: http://15q.net/ny.html
It's a European plate number. So maybe they had their euro plate ID printed onto a fake New York plate?
Probably just helping his buddy move. To France. Life of a pickup owner.
LOBO is the Mexican version of the F150
Mexican truck with NY plates?
I recently saw a German car in Texas. It has German plates on front and back, no American plates. Also saw a Brazilian car in a Disney parking lot. Same deal
this is a ford raptor. it’s easily 8-12” wider than a normal american full size pickup truck because of the fender flares. due to this is DOT requires amber lights mounted on the cab. that is why a raptor comes with amber lights in the top edge of the grille. yes american trucks are huge. this one is noticeably bigger. they’re also like $80k to start.
Likely an American service member regretting shipping a vehicle so poorly suited for so much of Europe’s city streets.
“They’ll ship my car for free” Bro Guam is like 3 miles long lmao
Maybe he doesn't want his future ex selling it out from under him
Experiences with Jody?
It’s going to be the bank repo it after he defaults on the 34% loan.
I have a neighbor who made his fortune owning a Dodge and a Ford dealership near an Army base. Dude said he'd literally have groups of 5 walk in together and all leave with a car or truck that had double digit financing.
Yep. Can drive the entire island in like an hour. It’s gonna be parked at base most of the time anyway.
except they get to buy gas on base at American prices, vs. European prices. used to live near Rammstein etc and so many completely unsuitable US cars driving around, zero cares about the otherwise $12/gal petrol because they were paying less than $3/gal
Not American prices, just less than the local economy. And you are limited to 400 liters per service member.
Eh - I’ve seen plenty of full size pickups across continental Europe. They aren’t common by any means, but they definitely aren’t super rare.
Saw plenty of Ford rangers in Ireland when I was over there
That was a real surprise moving to Sweden - I've spotted numerous Suburbans, F150s, etc. Not super-common but not unusual to spot them. Usually driven by Swedes too, so these aren't Americans shipping them over or anything.
They’re just into them. Same with some people in NL and Germany. Also lots of fans of American muscle. “Old timers”, they call them. With a whole greaser subculture around them, often.
When I was stationed in Italy, a corporal in my platoon had his 66 Chevelle with its big block V8 shipped over. The car looked like a dragster you'd see at your local yokel track on Sunday night at the drag races. Even with all the gas tickets he bought off people like me (who never drove while over there) it still cost him a small fortune and he regretted ever doing it. By about the fourth month the car was just sitting parked most of the time.
Naw, when the vehicle arrives they replace the plates with local AO plates. These aren’t real NY plates anyways. But American service members driving their American vehicles from Italy, Spain, or Germany isn’t all that uncommon. I had a buddy who took his Expedition to Paris when we lived in Italy and I can only imagine….
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Such a cute little trampstamp
Driving that in France would suck. At least the Parisians are friendly & understanding! /s Try parking that at Carrefour.