Who's laughing? I am... because there's nothing "factory special" about the car owner simply claiming a number and sticking it on their signature, or their car. Nice try - keep dreaming! But hey, if you manage to fool someone into thinking it is, more power to you... until they find out it isn't, and sue you - for $5,000,000. Bilbo... there were over 300 MINIs at the MINIs on the Dragon in 2005. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to go to MINIs on Top too, if I had the opportunity... but the Dragon was the biggest this year!

 

To get really crazy, MMC should lock it down at 500 - thus creating a limited edition to the numbering, which would in-turn, give more value to the exhisting numbers.

Kind of like those Beany things.

This way, even crappy number 289 will have value.

 

Well I'm MMC#46 and a proud member of Team Craptastic +MC^2 #1033

 

geeezz...talk about being nasty. Thanks Eric for the rather mean spirited reference...wink or no wink. What did I ever do to you?

 

FWIW, I have apologized privately and will now do so publicly to kdgblu. My comment was not meant to be hurtful, and I in no way meant to malign the character of any motorer, especially a hard working club officer!

 

And i helped you get your number Eric.

 

Locking it down to say the first 300 would seem mean-spirited when the whole point is to have virtual fun.

But now, I got to go to Quickstickers.com and have some vinyl made up to stick in the bonnet bay. Documentation is very important. Since the threads are archived, you can't cheat so the numbers were always FIFO. Once the cars hit Barret-Jackson they are going to WANT that documentation.

However, locking down the numbers DEFEATS the purpose of having fun.

It would be more fun to watch nay-sayers (and since this IS America, they can say Nay) cry when the MMC labeled cars go WAY up at auction.

 

LOL keep dreaming, chows... but the question then becomes - is the number assigned to the car or to the owner? If a MMC "member" <cough> trades in for another MINI, do they get a new #, or does it stay with the car?

I'm guessing the silly number is tied to the driver, since people won't want to "give up" their precious lower number... which completely and utterly destroys the laughable concept of increased value...

BTW I am already crying... because I'm laughing so hard.

 

Uhm No. got it wrong. Its tied to the Individual/Car ... obviously

If your keeping it to go to auction and your not the original owner, value goes down ... so tying it to the person OR just the car makes no sense since they were assigned together!

Better go back to crying its ALL in the providence

 

Sorry Edge and Chows, but you're BOTH wrong........

The number would have to stay with the car............otherwise the numbers wouldn't match..........duh!

Many well respected posters on this Forum have assured us that in 15 years, the 02 to 06 Coopers will be the ones to have and will command top dollar at Barrett Jackson.

Then there are those 02 and 03 owners who feel that theirs are the purer cars and will thus command top dollar. Meanwhile the 05 and 06 owners feel that with the superior gearing and the proper integration of the Home-Link system and the rear fog light, they will be sitting pretty. Don't get me started on the JCW devotees and their claim to increased desireability down the road.......

Personally, I think a 02 JCW with the rear-fog light retrofit kit, a framed carbon-fiber JCW certificate AND matching car MMC numbers will be the Mini equivalent of the Hemi Cudas at Barrett-Jackson in twenty years..........

 

I thought I said that. It stays with the person AND the car. If it becomes a second owner car, it looses value. Barret-Jackson starts in Jan on Speed Channel. Look in the trunk where they keep the providence.... the original papers. Original owners always get more money. Low mileage creampuffs.

Hemi-Cudas, dont get me going, I almost bought one and instead bought some STUPID sports car

 

My bad. I just get so excited thinking about what my 03 MCS is going to be worth in 15 years that I misread your post.................

 

Just keep it in pristine condition ... low miles ... keep the original paperwork and who know??? One day you to could be front row center down in Arizona? Just waiting to see what you get for that OLD car