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They used to chop up the old Porsches; now they do just about anything to keep the old 356s on the road. They're just too valuable. Ours has jumped in value about 20K in the last 2 years or so, and sometime in the future they'll regret doing this to the old Minis. Same thing happened to WWII planes--just chopped 'em up after the War, and now there's only a handful of some models--or less!