Check with your (or a) MINI dealer in Virgina and ask them what the convention is.
When I picked up my plates at the MINI dealer in Va, they put a plate on the back, but asked me if I wanted them to put a plate on the front.
When I asked about the legality of not using a front plate, they said a lot of their MINI customers ran with no plate at all on the front. They almost never had problems with the law.
I'd go for the custom plate... (but keep my legal plate handy just in case).
-sly |