Offered for your inspection is the world's largest KV Mini 1 collection [SAAB 96 for scale]. It would delight me to be proven wrong with evidence of a greater accumulation elsewhere:
The one with racing stripes is from the recent auction at the Bubble Car Museum; I haven't yet determined whether they make it go faster.
Furthermore, since I've heard the British have some sort of obsession with number plates, I'll demonstrate my US approach in the spirit of completely missing the point.
It doesn't preserve the French registration (too many characters for Washington), but at least it provides a certain transparency:
Yes, it looks better without the new plate; yes, the new plate is required by state law. So be it.
Mike Harrell