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They used to have heaps of them as hire cars on Magnetic Island, they've now been replaced by little front wheel drive Daihatsu looking things with the roof cut off, and conventional cars.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

Originally Posted by Davehoos

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

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