im not the type to go around stealing peoples belongings, especially minis, but you all know it happens, and there is little anyone but the law can do about it, im just being totally to the point, it goes on, people buy minis, some know its not as it should be but still but it anyways, and there are those who are oblivious that the 1964 mk1 mini is actually a 1986 mayfair with a tax exempt log book thrown at it from a great distance, it will continue for how ever long minis are around, be it another 100years, or another 500 years (by then i think the mini will be long extinct!)
as for the books i have, i will find a shell to match the year or as close as possible, and build it up from a 2nd hand shell, like soooooo many other mini owners out there have done, and will continue to do so in future, its just what happens, illegal or not
+1 at the end of the day your using the identity of a car which once existed but was scraped, so by using it on a second hand shell it's going to help keep mini's on the road. As long as it's used on a very similar mini I don't have any issues with it at all. Your not creating a new identity your re-using an old one.
Although I know it's illegal, but no one directly (unless you want to start getting philosophical about it) suffers from it unless it's going to be used on a stolen car.
