The Moke is coming back!

My mum had one when I was a kid a Blue Californian one with white sunraysia style wheels, and white tube bulbar similar to the one pictured earlier. It was our family car for years, we travelled everywhere in it. As Mick they had an awesome heater. My dad taught me to drive in it around the paddocks at home. It was in really good condition when she traded it in, on an 84 Mazda 323..... They only gave us thousand dollars for it from memory, I was 16 at the time and wanted her to keep it as my first car. It'd be worth a fair bit now, if its still around.

They used to have heaps of them as hire cars on Magnetic Island, they've now been replaced by little front wheel drive Daihatsu looking things with the roof cut off, and conventional cars.

I went to the auctions a couple of years ago when they sold them all off, and couldn't believe the prices they were fetching. 6, 7 and 8 grand each, they were all unregistered, un road worthy and generally in very poor condition. Even the crashed ones without engines were going for 1, or 2 grand.
I was considering grabbing one as a fun little runaround, but quickly dismissed that idea.

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Originally Posted by bacicat

Without twin airbags, ESP and ABS it won't be able to be registered in Victoria...

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I don't see the loss here?;)
Unless it's got an industrial heater onboard as well as battleship sized windscreen wipers I can't see it being a fit for Vic anyway.:twisted:

A topless car in Vic is like taking your shirt off and rolling in the snow. Increases adrenaline at the time but then cold and self doubt kick in.:twisted::D:D:D

BTW, I never owned a moke so maybe would look at one.

Ralph

Mokes can be considered: 'cute'.
This new thing ranks more like: 'ugly'.

I like the later model originals, good fun in bare bones motoring.
Recently I came across one with a turbo Toyota motor and transaxle (with LSD) in it, went like stink but the owner admitted it was 'challenging' to drive.

There was a red Californian on the South Gippy Hwy today being used for advertising,,

I'd have one :D

my storeman told me that he had a early moke to travel to sale RAAF.

he refered to it as a skateboard with brakes optional.cost him a pushbike.

Mechanic I worked with saving for a house comuted with a BMC moke for a few years.he had assembled mokes at a Newcastle dealer that came in kits like motor bikes and lawn mowers.
he had a steel roof and canvas steel framed doors collected water,and no heater.

My thoughts are with road safety P/C fight is to stage an event on the NSW boarder for stuntmen to drive across into VIC.I can remember been told how strict USA and JAPANESE laws are to see cars without panels-trailers tied to the back of cars and small micro Japanese vehicles regoed as golf carts.how many Quads are being used by farmers because they cant buy utility vehicles.

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Originally Posted by Davehoos

......how many Quads are being used by farmers because they cant buy utility vehicles.

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Most farmers today use quad bikes where fifty or sixty years ago they would have used a soft top swb Landrover. This change is partly because quad bikes did not exist then, but also, as you suggest, because there is no real equivalent to these vehicles made today.

And from the safety aspect - quad bikes are the leading cause of farm deaths today in Australia, a figure that would almost certainly be reduced if they were replaced by 80" Series 1s, despite their lack of safety equipment.

John