Looking for a good quality license-plate frame (archive)

After five months of driving around the streets of San Francisco (OK, Palo Alto) with my Euro Tourist plate, I finally decided to play the semi-legal game and put the California plate on the rear (Munich plate still on the front).

I am looking for a simple but high-quality (not pepboys cheezy) license plate frame including a smoked cover to tone down the white plate against my Anthracite car. I've seen the cheap versions at the local autopart stores and some nice metal frames w/o covers in various online catalogs and on the cars of those on this board.

Suggestions? Do I go with a "normal" good frame (like the OEM BMW frame) and then add a cover? If so, where do I go just to get the cover? Pepboys has a cheap plastic cover. Is that the best I can do?

TIA,
Bill

Follow Ups:

How about running around **frameless** ? (m) Stacey 22:49 10/29/2000 (0)
Better yet, do away with license plate holder. Gary Ray 22:07 10/29/2000 (0)
How about an Autothority frame? and a smoke cover? RevHigh 19:45 10/29/2000 (2)
- Is that your new HAI??? (hot air intake) Dan B 19:58 10/29/2000 (1)
  - Because it is end-user friendly , nothing like cutting metal to fit an intake! RevHigh 20:08 10/29/2000 (0)

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