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 Post subject: Electric Choke (moke)
PostPosted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 10:29 am 
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hmmm....

http://www.alibaba.com/product/primeinvest-105642925-101311793/Electric_Moke_car.html :?

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The Mini Moke was so popular in USA in the 70's they actually named it the Californian

You learn something new every day :roll:

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Kennomini wrote:
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The Mini Moke was so popular in USA in the 70's they actually named it the Californian

You learn something new every day :roll:


Like the story in todays Brisbaine Courier Mail on the Mini Concept Car -" .... after BMW brought the Mini back from the dead"

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Kennomini wrote:
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The Mini Moke was so popular in USA in the 70's they actually named it the Californian

You learn something new every day :roll:

Yeah, last Mini (or Moke?) was sold there in 1967... :lol:

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I read 'electric choke' and thought someone had done a Li-ion conversion to a chinese shell :lol:

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sgc wrote:
I read 'electric choke' and thought someone had done a Li-ion conversion to a chinese shell :lol:


I thought it was an accident with a vibrator
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Odd. Although from the same supplier, comes this:

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"The high speed electric car". Not sold in the US for one very good reason. It's a complete rip off of the Corbin Sparrow, an electric car made by Mike Corbin in the late nineties. What would be entirely appropriate now, and was visionary then, died after only a couple of hundred were made.

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I bet they would make a viable proposition today, subject to speed and being able to be registered. If they're classed as a motorcycle, you can avoid the crash testing and possibly just have to prove the viability of driving in traffic and on motorways.
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What a croc of sh1#!

I'm sorry, and I know the mods might mod this post, but that website is the greatest load of BS I've seen in a long time.

And, by the way, even if they are doing an electric Moke (and that website is not associated with the people who actually make the Mokes in China) it is not a world first as there were 5 electric Mokes built in Melbourne back in about 1980. Look out for full details in a future edition of TME.

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watto wrote:
What a croc of sh1#!

I'm sorry, and I know the mods might mod this post, but that website is the greatest load of BS I've seen in a long time.

And, by the way, even if they are doing an electric Moke (and that website is not associated with the people who actually make the Mokes in China) it is not a world first as there were 5 electric Mokes built in Melbourne back in about 1980. Look out for full details in a future edition of TME.

Cheers,
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Nice... 8) cant wait!

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