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Old 12-31-2014, 03:45 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ninetynineSC2 View Post
Wait...the article said the engine was wrong and the steering wheel was on the wrong side and that it was likely from around 2000. If that is true then it wasn't really a classic

"While it carried a VIN plate from a car made in 1988 that would have been legal, none of its details checked out: that VIN matched a right-hand-drive vehicle, not a left-hand-driver, and flagged a different engine. Best they could tell, this Rover Mini was likely built around the year 2000."

Not arguing that it was a stupid thing to do though.
Original Mini production continued until 2000 when BMW refused to allow Rover to continue to use the name as they wanted to launch their own brand of MINI aimed at the hairdressers of the world.
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