[Dan in Pasadena]

daepp - If you do a search there is more on why that name got chosen than you EVER wanted to know!

A shorter answer is that we wanted a place of our own and the '74-'77 models have been referred to as "Mid Years" (and mostly derogatorily so) for a long time. The idea of a club came up in a looong thread I posted when I bought my car over a year ago. Many of us felt the use of "Gruppe" in any way was too derivative of the RGruppe and Gruppe B guys. Personally, I kinda wanted a name that teased fun over our prior negative rep, but in the end I was happy with Mid9. Plus we can collectively be referred to as the Mid9'ers which is semi-cool.