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[Tamworthbay]

It will be a 'small' museum, just I have been thinking all along

[Ethel]

You'd have to be some serious nerd to be interested in a collection of several hundred Minis where very often the only difference will be the colour scheme and interior trim plus a few decals.

 

IF(and it's a big if) you managed to acquire the car your best option would be to offer it on loan, free of charge, to anywhere that would be prepared to display it. I can't think of any that would be keen on giving their valuable floor area to what amounts to a lump of scrap metal, with little to make it worthy of more than a cursory glance beyond its back story. Maybe a theme park wanting a novelty item for their ghost train ride?

[Captain Mainwaring]

Your not investing persay in the Mini but the idea behind it. As we all know the car how no actual in real terms by that i mean metal etc.

 

www.minincrazy.co.uk

 

 

You're patient and persistent, I'll give you that.

 

It could be said that the works coopers fall into that subset too. I mean, it's all light iron when you get down to the bones of it. 

 

Works coopers are different though, lots of people will chew your arm off to get to them, but I need a couple of rear wheel bearing now and for me at least, I want them more than I would want total ownership of your shell.

 

Good luck with finding people who are similarly interested in a bit of junk - If I had known that you were a collector, then my vast past collection of classic cars in various stages of decomposition and ring rot would not have gone to a better place on the back of a scrappy's 7 tonner......

Edited by Captain Mainwaring, 10 June 2013 - 08:08 AM.

[mab01uk]

You'd have to be some serious nerd to be interested in a collection of several hundred Minis where very often the only difference will be the colour scheme and interior trim plus a few decals.

 

 

I agree.......how many people go to a Mini show and then closely examine several hundred Mini's.........even as a life long Mini enthusiast at a show like the recent London to Brighton which had 2000+ Mini's lined up I struggled to maintain interest in even a fraction of that number when faced with so many often great cars........and for the spectators it was all 'free to view' at Crystal Palace or Madeira Drive!