If you think it makes you and your car look good, then so be it. All I can tell you is that anyone who actually competes in motor sport will know that anyone driving around the roads with numbers on is most definately not an actual competitor in any sort of UK motorsport and will consider those with numbers on to be 'boy-racers' and 'posers'. It is just a 'look at me' syndrome which can only attract adverse attention, especially from the 'Old Bill'.
That is not 'elitism', it's just fact. When I was younger I used to own a share in a light aeroplane, but whilst I have the highest regard for combat aircraft and pilots, I didn't put RAF markings on it and swasticas under the canopy like the RAF boys did in WW2 in order to pose as a would-be fighter pilot, even though I was young then and 'didn't know what stupid was'.
If some in the Mini enthusiast fraternity have now become the sort who want to 'make believe' that they are rally drivers, whilst driving around in cars which don't even look like rally cars, then all I can say is that it's a shame for all of us true Mini enthusiasts.
The Ferrari and Porsche marques have as much or more sporting history than the Mini, but you don't see those cars driven around by make-believe racing drivers sporting stick-on numbers. I wonder why. Perhaps their owners have too much sense.
I dont think for one minute that a mini with numbers on would attract adverse attention form the "old bill"
Thought the numbers thing was about styling much the same as some motorcycle maunfactures (like all of the main ones) produce race replicas for road use.
Think you ought to define "true mini enthusiasts" as the original post was from a enthusisat just wantng to sort his car out.
