MINI collectibles

A few people have seen this Toggle Switch Re-labeling kit, which was shipped to early MINI owners as part of the owners welcome kit. The idea is to have some fun re-labeling the toggle switches in your car – but these labels are no longer available from MINI USA (I can’t even find them on eBay!)
But now, MINI Pirate, an aftermarket MINI company, has designed their own similar re-label kit and is planning to sell a batch:

Visit this MINI2 thread to learn more …

I learned about the latest issue of Dwell Magazine from the NAM collectibles thread, and picked up a couple of copies. There’s a two page spread called “Let’s Visit Five Wonders”:

Following this, the next twenty pages have a “strip advert” on the right hand side designed like a “flick cartoon” showing an SUV failing and then a MINI succeeding in parking! I scanned every page and edited them into an animated GIF file:

 

Tucked in the back of the magazine are a few more adverts, including this pair on the left & right edges of a two page spread:

You can also visit a MINI advertisers page at the Dwell Magazine website

It’s been a long long time since I did anything about MINI collectibles – but sorting through my many yet-to-be-filed items and discovering I have three of these MINI UK 2002 press kit CDs, I figured it was time to let other people see them …

This CD is one of my very favourite MINI collectibles, not because of its content but because of its design! The exterior of the CD case is bright red and ribbed, and when the yellow sleeve is put over it, you have a perfect MINI rear taillight design – and when you open the CD case, you discover that the CD itself is printed to look like the MINI speedometer!

The CD has lots of early MINI press stuff, including a set of images you’ve probably seen before (such as this one of Russ Swift driving a MINI on two wheels); the CD leaflet inside folds out to a very long sheet with all the images shown – this is only part of it (as long as my scanner could scan!)