Slate Pickup spotted @ Pike Place Market (Seattle)

[Tran]

Slate pickup spotted in public at Pike Place Market. Credit to @heysiren for the sighting.

 

[Adam W]

I wonder if thats the same one from the Needle with the wrap removed, or if there are actually two in town.

 

[Imhotep]

I wonder if thats the same one from the Needle with the wrap removed, or if there are actually two in town.

I thought the same. Looks like the same configuration.

At the Needle, I noted there was no front license plate mount. I asked the Slate rep if I just needed to drill some holes and he said I could either do that or join the movement mounting in California to just not put a plate on the front. LOL didn’t know we needed a movement for that.

 

[E90400K]

Adding a license plate to the front of a Slate truck is really not going hurt the looks. This thing is no beauty queen. Just sayin '

 

[GaRailroader]

Adding a license plate to the front of a Slate truck is really not going hurt the looks. This thing is no beauty queen. Just sayin '

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

 

[E90400K]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I'd say, ADDING a license plate will improve the front end looks.

 

[fuzzmunky415]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. FTFY

 

[Luxrage]

he said I could either do that or join the movement mounting in California to just not put a plate on the front. LOL didn’t know we needed a movement for that.

My first car [Illinois] never had the mounting holes drilled so I never bothered with a front plate. Never was pulled over but was told it was a guaranteed 'reason to pull me over for anything the cop wanted.'

Never got pulled over in Illinois for it for the 10 years I drove that car there... however upon starting college out of state the Iowa Highway Patrol LOVED to lecture me on front plates. Never changed my registration so it always had IL plates and was probably half the reason I kept getting warnings.

I will have to mount a front plate but an offset plate would be cool, my previous LTD had one and I was told it was more of a JDM feature.

Wonder if that center panel between the two squares on the front bumper of the slate will be where the mounts go. My Element had little dimples built in the bumper to show you where to drill.

 

[Luxrage]

Slate pickup spotted in public at Pike Place Market. Credit to @heysiren for the sighting.

Looks like the taillights are going to be a single bulb setup. Was hoping for two for redundancy, that and one being a dedicated turn signal bulb and the other brake lights so we could potentially have amber turn signals if we wanted 'em!

 

[AL-Derby]

Looks like the taillights are going to be a single bulb setup. Was hoping for two for redundancy, that and one being a dedicated turn signal bulb and the other brake lights so we could potentially have amber turn signals if we wanted 'em!

You can always get one of those LED strips that goes under the tailgate.

 

[Luxrage]

You can always get one of those LED strips that goes under the tailgate.

If Slate offers a four-pin towing harness I'll probably end up doing something like that. If that little plastic tailgate wing can be modified so I could put little ambers in the corners of that... that'd be a fun project.

 

[AL-Derby]

If Slate offers a four-pin towing harness I'll probably end up doing something like that.

I guess a seven pin would be a waste. lol