I've heard people from Britain talk about getting busted by the cops for having number plates made up with different scripting or older style scripting and such.

Since a North American style plate will not fit the rear of my 2CV and I've had to mount a Tennessee plate off the bumper to be legal, I thought about having the numbers from my TN plate made onto one of these type of plates:

http://www.licenseplates.tv/tennessee_e ... _7085.html

I had this same company fabricate a faux Serbian plate for the front of my Yugo.