pushed it home this arvo.... it only lived a couple of blocks (downhill) away
I'm not sure if it's supposed to be a 1275 or not, the compliance plate has 998 next to the GVM, now GVM means Gross Vehicle Mass, mokes are only meant to be 630kg or so, and my mate has a gal californian that was a 998 and his has 998 on the compliance plate, so maybe it was originally a 998, it's also got a police assigned engine number. However it did have disks on it, the guy who had it put them on his other moke.... wierd.... anyway, build date is August 81, so it's pretty darn late ccording to that. The radiator is enormous, my mate with the gal moke has claimed it tho
the starter motor looks very unusual, as does the alternator
It has a bit of surface rust in places - some quite bad underneath, I had a poke at it and it isn't deep, will hit it with the wire brush soon-ish and see what it's like.
Does anyone know how to definitively tell if it's a galvanised body? other than that bit of surface rust underneath there is no rust anywhere on it
it's missing a few bits and pieces, and someone has provided it with some crap paint over what appears to be the original white - check the overspray on the front indicators! and the insane negative camber on the right rear wheel - I bought some radius arms off ebay to replace this one
here are a few pics - apologies to the 56k'ers
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