Was helping out a mate, getting his moke to his new workshop, as he can't drive manual yet.
It had the best of everything, 1275 supercharged engine, with front disc brakes, and pretty much every part on the car was new.
Brand new, first time it touched the road since the rebuild that took about 2 years, just got passed for rego recently and I got to drive it about 50km, to its new destination
Interesting drive to say the least, lol. About 30km into the trip, i heard something drop onto the road, on the highway, and the engine doing 100kim on the highway, suddenly became much louder, looked behind, to see the back end of the exhaust and muffler rolling away, lol. interesting to say the least, lucky no one was behind me, couldn't stop either, so kept going. Stoped when i could and found the rest of the exhaust was hanging and hitting the ground every so often,but couldn't do anything but looked like it would hold and then about another 10km, the next bit of exhaust fell off, by then the manifold was the only thing left, lol only had about 10 kms to go, so i plodded on causely. Tho i must say for a 1275 supercharged, idling at traffic lights, and taking off, was quite a sight, everyone was looking at me, and as im sure you all know, it sounded pretty tough
and bloody noisy. Was pretty much def by the time i got there, but it was all part of the fun, lol.
Though i must say it was a privilege to drive it, and loads of fun, never driven a moke b4, and specially not a 1275 supercharged!
It has made me realize that i still love mini's and now mokes
and the enjoyment i get out of them
and can't get out of the mini business, like i thought i would.
Here are some pics and video's, just to amuse those who would like to watch.
