All about the Mini Moke

Does professional idiot. After hours.

David you? Okay.

They're all sorted, I'll be fine.

I'll be fine. David sort of.

Looks like he's having a personal earthquake moving.

It looks like about an eight point.

Two on the Richter Scale. We do you like Japanese cars in

Japan's? No first Quake so I can do.

That's true. I mean with Japan recently

reopening is our, you are currently David like you've.

That's right. That's right.

Yes. It's very size of seismically

active for the money. Oh, it's so exciting.

Itit, it went at the source. No, it's all good.

It's all good. Scared the life out of me.

Yeah. What, what size was it?

It was quite a good one. It was six.

Something six or seven. Well, that's up there.

But it's close. Got up there.

Yep. Sorry we digress.

It's funny. Moment we had there's a main.

It was just a picture of the, what's it called, Federation Square. As it was, we will rebuild.

Yeah, I remember that bricks. And copper and glass.

Yeah, we will rebuild, but no good to see.

Good to see all four of you on Tulsa for three of you on tonight. And now Alex in the background.

Hello Alex. We can smoke.

We can we can we can sort of see you there.

We'll get started some car updates.

We'll start with mr. Bunting, everybody you've got a

big week of updates or be quick peak week.

Not really that because I haven't sort of bought or sold anything. But I did on the weekend get the

Moke that I bought running within was very exciting to rewind a little bit. When I first bought it I hooked

up and I've got a big chunk of battery that I bought one of those recycled ones from But with a rebirth, the minutes it's been great, it's a huge battery, it starts anything, I charge it up every now and again, and it's just a good jump starter battery. So, I hooked that up with my fat

proper jumper cables, which are the big amp ones that you pay, like, 100 bucks for these things but they're brilliant.

Again, they'll start anything those PC, little ones.

You buy, that are really thin out of there.

They just don't do the job and given I jump.

Start a few cars I have invested in a pair of those.

So, I hooked up the big chunk of battery, which I charged up, With the big fat jumper cables, directly onto the, onto the terminals of, whether the Moke battery sits, and it just wasn't turning over fast enough. So it was sort of cranky

cranking and started out and everything's working, but it was pretty slow. And I thought that's not a good

sign. I think something's the starter

motor is not right. Or there's an earth, not right?

Or something like that but to rule out the battery itself, I did go and purchase on the weekend a brand spanking battery with 480, cold cranking amps. She's quite a lot more or a Moke

engine for a top 75. A tape.

I wanted what I wanted more because you can get more, but then, the batteries are too big and they don't fit in the hole for them. Okay.

So anyway, I put the new battery in it.

Can't it up crank. The key thinking, I'd get the

same result and it was turning over like a champion and I do.

Alright, now that we have turning over then it's only a one, one little hop, skip and a jump to starting.

So I sprayed start your bastard down the car B.

And of course it Coughed into life pretty quickly and then it died again and I sprayed some more again and whatever.

And after about three times of that, it ran on its own Steam and using the stale, God knows how old petrol 15 year old picture. All that's left in the tank and

it, it set there idling quite nicely and I thought, wow.

All right, that's a good result. That was easy enough for and the

motor. The good thing is the motor

sound and healthy. It didn't make any nasty noises

and which is what the previous owner had.

Told me said it was all service when it was parked and, you know, running well. So seemingly it should continue

to run. Well wasn't belching out smoke

or doing anything horrible. So I thought good, I think that

Motors. Okay, that was my big update.

Very nice. Mmm, there's no interest in

getting a big aspect tree. Like that's a great idea with

project like that because Just takes that one whole level of complication, doesn't it? Yeah, yeah.

So that is really my only card. I did advertise, the Mercedes

230 easy, because some money has to come from somewhere to pay for part of the mooc and haven't had any bites on that or any serious bites on that yet. But early days, it was about

done in the car front. I'm still going through service

month, you know, it's dragging into September obviously.

But that's okay. I'm dropping off the Benz diesel

tomorrow morning picking up the Pajero and we'll keep cycling through the remaining few cars over the next week or so some, what's the Ballina stages? Just sitting there.

I have said get it roadworthy to the mechanic so all you know, check it for roadworthy. It needs a windscreen, Alex

bought me a spare wheel for it on the weekend from the steroid Wreckers. So because The Brina.

Brina, Brina. So yeah.

It shouldn't be too far off Friday with a windscreen and a check over. It really should be pretty good.

So once that's ready, then I'll book an infrared Joe and yeah, put it on the road and then sell it.

Duh, that's the plan. I think that's about it.

The car stuff. Not much else are you know and

then I did some more work on the mic now that I know that motor silver, right? I pulled off the brake master

cylinder started. Pulling off the clutch master

cylinder. I'll pull off all the hoses on

the weekend. They're all crunchy like the

heater hose in the fuel hose and the and I'll just take them down to Repco and get links cut you know of the same wing and then sort of refit all that we might do a bit of a working, be on a Thursday night. Another friend might come over

and yeah try and help me pull the clutch master cylinder out.

The remaining King thing in that, it's hard to get to maybe pull a radiator out, send that off, and get that saw it.

So, there's not crazy things to do on it.

It's just fiddly because They're not easy to work on because everything is so crammed in, in the in those Motors are very exciting times. Just a bunch of it.

Is it is it is getting better and I can't wait to drive around like an idiot. Yeah, top-down bunting out.

He's happy. Yeah.

Yeah. The tops off and I pulled all

the whole soft top off. So, it's full convertible now.

Looks good. I will get to the garage and I'm

like, mmmm Scott of this with you.

Me not much actually just haven't had time and just recovering the Olney that's getting there.

So I just haven't been able to do that much.

I did grab a little Hot Wheels car.

Oh my gosh. That looks a little old.

I line there. That's mad.

Nice colors here. Okay.

Remember if I've already got that one or not but you know grab that anyway, just in case. Absolutely correct.

The ones that I like you got a magazine in the mail to Maddie that's on its way to your place. So you score the, I really

appreciate that. You post me money.

Yep, posted it. Very 19.

I still even after that I still did not see want to any server anywhere, I even went to the to newsagents down the road for me and they didn't even have it. So what makes the final motor

all the final edition of motor? I got that one on its way for

you to be able to have a read through that one.

Other than that, I've got I got nothing no car news.

I will soon because it's coming to holidays are 31.

There's a whole bunch of stuff I want to do on the 31.

None of it. Yeah, 31.

This is Mike. Who's on the road?

First, let's, let's throw down a challenge.

Yeah, could be good to Spur you on and spur me on.

It could be good. Girls is probably closer to

roadworthy than mine. My

rain hail or shine. We pay with taking that car

there. Even if it's even if you have to

carry it, there it's happening. Yeah.

Just got to check out this little seal We miss fire at the moment hopefully it's nothing big.

Yeah, I don't think things to almost everything is going to be brand new in there that could cause her.

And I don't know how much fuel is in the tank.

So I might check in another 20 liters of 98 in there, and Run that through to see what this little misses at the moment.

But I'm changing most of all electronic stuff.

So I got that new throttle position.

Sensor have got a new one that will go in there.

That could be a bit of an issue because if I sit there in the engine bay and just give it a REV if I do it really fast as I can pause and then it revs so it doesn't keep UPS, not keeping up properly and yeah just a little little miss.

Once there. No, that's all good.

I'll be, I'll be happy engine-wise.

Absolutely. And then I can just do some

suspension bits and pieces. What else do I need to do?

I don't know if I'll be able to pass with that front suspension at the moment, but I'll investigate.

I might be able to. It was good friends in the

roadworthy business that might be able to help you.

Yeah, I mean, it's safe and everything, they just reckon when it's lifted all the way up, this spring raises up a little bit, it doesn't stay seated properly, which is weird because I bought it as a whole kit. So, It's not like I bought a

separate, I will roll. Is one whole brand-new

replacement because it is weird. That's pretty weird.

Yeah, I just got to get those original original wheels for it and get new ties for that. So then that will pass

roadworthy, nice and easy, can't get original, the original hubcaps or anything for them anymore.

To put on there. The GXP had a very specific

hubcap to yeah, mine were all cracked and Rec so I just took them off because it just look hideous, it was better without it. Yeah.

I mean, he's cracked missing bits and stuff on.

It looked horrible. There's a cheap set of t.i.

Alloys came up the other day, on Facebook Marketplace, OU didn't think to send them to you. I didn't know you were looking

for Wheels. Rise.

Cheap is odd. Usually they go see if they seem

cheap, I can't read what that we all have conceived this to me.

Yeah, that that might be good to just slap on and then I can just take my time with getting my other aftermarket wheels.

Next up properly can do that in the background and have these will sell at least I can still drive it and then I think, once it's all road with, you can start doing the manual swap, maybe good change for manual which I think I've pretty much got absolutely everything. In should have everything just

got to get the one part underneath the current borders, even called. Now my mind's gone blank.

So hold up the transmission, the crossmember braces that amount plus 1 bar, that's the word I'm looking for.

Yep, so I've just got all I want but I need the manual ones but that's easy to get because it's after market place that just makes them. Anyway yep I can slap that Ian

and I'm pretty sure that's about it might need some bolts here and there I think to bolt it up but other than that it's not too tricky to get some good bolts for the bell housing and that to size. It up.

Yep. And that is it that is

everything awesome. There are calico way to make it

happen so he will come over and give you a hand doing it for.

Do it in one weekend and make it make it.

Yeah, I'm menu. Well that's why I'm by that time

should be in the new house. Okay.

In the garage. Yes.

Hang on. When you are building a new

house. Yep.

When's it finished. I was thinking maybe January.

Okay. Okay so groundspeed broken.

Yeah that's all done. We got the slab down everything

and the frame is coming this week on Thursday.

Yeah. The frames coming then.

So yeah. It's on its way.

Excellent. Oh yeah.

Grunts Cody. Thank you very much.

So pretty excited with that. Absolutely?

As you should be. Mr. Prince care of dates with

me, I was thinking today is I was driving around a huge amount, done a bit more work on the Civic.

I'm just waiting on my maze who's going to do some body repairs for me. So I've done done, all the

wheels taken them off, clean them all up and memory, spray them and put the nice new center caps with the bright red centers, on them, which is Factory.

So, So and I also played around with some just cleaned up the car be as best I could. So haven't actually taken that

out again since it no driver the last time.

But that's hopefully job for this weekend but what else have I been doing? We had a great gearbox last

weekend. Good turnout.

We had a bit of a spring clean out of the gearbox in anticipation of, in of a wave of Stuff that I can tell you about next week, probably when we actually give it, but there's there's a lot of stuff in the gearbox, which cook people who don't know what the gearbox is. It's the, our cake loves 40-foot

container full of old and cool spare parts.

Well old, cool and pretty chunky, if they're not what you looking for spare parts. Maddie Maddie knows Ed.

And Ed knows it. Well and there's, it's a rule,

its first Saturday of every month.

We sort of Get together and it's open.

And the idea is people can come down and grab stuff out of the the anything they need for their car that they that we might have down there and make a donation to the club so it works really well. So that's all good been tied up

with a few tricky. Would jobs work-wise.

I've got half of the interior of a over 100 year old Rolls Royce in my garage at the moment, so that's about it. 19.

I think it's a 19-15, silver Ghost and the great jobs to do because they're really interesting and unusual.

And it's inversely proportionate to how much of a headache there, too, because it's a hundred-year-old.

Well, this one was restored at some stage, so it's not 100 year old leather, thankfully, but it's all bad and like an old chest to feel couch and stuff in it.

It's almost orange. It's like a creamy beige color,

but, but it's it's got a real orange tinge to it and the cars been re sprayed original color, but Henry's Fred is going to turn out beautifully and it's like I think they're called the Jag colors called, squadron blue.

So it's a really rich sort of royal blue color with this.

This orangey trivet looks amazing.

So, but of course, the thing is, it doesn't they don't want it to look knew they wanted to look 15 years old.

So, it's a very fine line between doing too much risk, duration, leaving a little bit of patina to it, but making it better than it was but not as good as it could be.

So how do you find out fine line like that?

Like that is like, I mean it's I know what you're trying, you trying to get out and and the inverted commas, the standard that is. But you know it's it's like when

people like just just put clear coat over like a old, you know, whether it? Yeah, they've they've passed it

up. There made a look.

Good. But it still looks the age but

it's protected and it'll be okay.

Did you just like, you just start scuffing it back a little bit with the business with a bit of Sandy?

Or do you just know that idea because it's is Feliz, caftan, and Martin, some stage. It's had some water on it, so

it's got some water stains and things like that on it.

So it's more about sort of, literally, sort of fluffing color over it and sort of building it up.

So, sort of do a little bit in various areas.

But of course the color where it hasn't seen the light, is it different color as well so that you sort of got a blend between the faded out sort of looking what the original color is because if you painted all the original category paint everything whereas that's not what they want.

They sort of want it to look like a bit of a little bit of Aging is fine but yeah they just don't want basically no one wants to know that I've done anything to it.

That's the trick. Yeah.

So you know that it's basically that don't want to no one wants to know where I've been. So I didn't leave no evidence,

so that's been fun. That takes up quite a bit of

time on the weekend to though just because it's a very time-consuming job. So trying not to eat into the

day too much. And I today I've had a big job

where a was rectifying. Some damage already have a 1/2 a

day, go at this car and then they panel shop finished putting the pack a bag together. Then of course, didn't tell me

that they will B. That also need repair.

Work done to them that it's a was a ranger of all things.

And the guy had a pot of resin sitting on the passenger seat on the way home. I did point out today, you know,

it's a dual cab. You know, that's what the back

of the cars for like, putting stuff in because, of course, the person that ran into the back of it and did 20 grams worth of damage to the back of the car, the As in that course flew off the seat, hit the dashboard and sprayed everywhere in the car.

So now we're picking risen off all sorts of things.

It was Heavenly light board that whether it was going to be ripped off or not. So and I think that's what the

guy probably wants it. So but see they know we're going

to fix it. We're going to fix it so of

course it's got to be perfect. So that's taken far longer than

I would have liked but I made it with my while.

So yeah. Absolutely.

Yes. And that's about make have not

necessarily my car updates. I haven't told you Legend sold

that was last week. Just wasn't it?

Yes yes. Yes that that's that's gone.

Yeah. No no.

It's bad for me. I think probably work.

We also joined by Robin Holly but it just needs to be highly.

Their roses area is. You can hear him in the

background. Close the blinds make it look

professional. How are you gentlemen?

What's happening with you? Car updates on your end mate.

I was in such a rush to get to car talk today or scratch me rims on my F100 and you know where I did it, the Red Rooster dry fruit. effector is mass designed those

curves at Red Rooster Ridiculous.

No God, happy Jane. Well they the GT wheels and you

want to do. Yeah.

Mustang wheels. Oh no.

It it please do not hang yeah. Sorry 90s mornings.

Yeah anyway they're cheap. Anyway you can buy another set

for anything between six and thousand dollars with new tires on it. Yeah.

You should be how to get them repaired for a couple of bucks of room. Yeah.

But you can get another room for 50 bucks that cheap, you're just as well. Yeah, so never mind.

So apart from that, taking the Mustang in for a service tomorrow, Friday, no news on my cars, probably won't hear anything in the pot until they arrive.

Really than expecting the tell me anything really.

It's been like that at the moment, isn't it with the kindest tree? Yeah, crazy.

He said it was pretty good when I actually bought the Mustang back in 2017, even though I had to wait for a year for it.

It was telling me where it was, where it was within, the manufacturing line was getting on the sheer, with our ship was across the, you know, the waters, but nothing with these cars. Yeah.

Pussy for did that with me as well, for work with my fear.

So they said, okay it's you've got a VIN number.

Hasn't been built yet. Your car has just been built.

They said, it's been like, there's someone I want to the to the waiting yard to get, put on a ship to tell me what sugar was on the tell me when I arrived, they told me when it was on its way to the dealership, they told me like that they, they were really good about that. So it's really weird that that

Suzuki and stuff like an informed and in general for your van as well. Didn't really have never really

seen anything anything at all. Yeah, they don't expect until

next year anyway. So yeah, yeah, I was going to

say. I don't think you will hear

anything, but I think that they are Dating customers as much as they used to. So, that's pretty much it for

us. Really?

We went for a, do we get for driving a weekend?

We take too many cars out. We took lat Mercedes out the

week Before you depart from that and haven't really done much with the cars at all. Nice, my updates and I might

just to get the MR2 today and took it for a nice drive Excellence. Yeah.

Had to give it a good spin. The battery was getting really

rude. And I brought that back home.

How did you manage to do that? Was that between classes or did

you? I was actually in the city today

and so I was like, you know, perfect up.

Ready to go. Yeah, you know, spread its wings

on the phone, the freeway to and from and yeah.

Lovely. Wow.

So yeah, gave it a nice. Give a nice driving.

Yeah, I really really like that guy.

It's a fun little car, so it's yeah.

And the Aiken, the air conditioning is working really nicely and make sure five minutes as you say and would five minutes of air con and five minutes once a week, full, cold low fan. So we need to do to keep aircon

working, still waiting on the fiesta, I believe they're waiting for it to get there, waiting for the coding to the guys to go put the coating on. So, so that's just, so the car

is done, it's just waiting for that.

Speaking of the Fiesta, Ford sends me an interesting email this week. They said, on top of the $500,

we offering we've offered you and we're going to give you another $250 because because it was it, It was missing a few things that the previous one didn't have so seen total 750 and I think that's a, that's a pretty decent outcome for it.

Also. Sorry.

So is it missing a more things? The folding mirror function, but

because of the chip shortage they said, this is just like to sell cars. They couldn't, they have to get

rid of a couple things and that was one of the things that they got rid of. So if you had noticed that, I

had noticed that I was like, I was like, whatever.

I don't really believe me folding mirrors, but the fact that they said look, it's yeah, it was missing that as well and we'll be honest about it and his extra 250.

I was like, you know what, that's that's okay.

That's pretty fair, they order to get the fuel consumption as well. You then there might be a class

action and you might get some more.

Mmm, what was that? If your consumption, that's a

very good. It's pretty much.

It's pretty much the six and a half to drive it too.

Sitting on five. So it was pretty good.

It's I mean it's being a 3 cylinders and really use much but Yeah, it's it's it's been it's been good.

Well I mean I'm enjoying my travel experience.

The great, the great H2 is a is and you know, I'm noticing it on the roads. My God, it does.

This add is another H2 and is another H2 in the knowledge to which will be that you've waving or flashing headlights and I'll just leave the podcast now. Yeah, I'm giving him the the

have a high five that On the ground start.

But they look it's it's yeah yeah.

Not too bad for what it is. But yeah, getting there with

with those. Yeah.

Well, polished up the LTD last Wednesday evening and I've put the, the trimmer store on all the black dreams, taking some taken some decent photos. So I'm going to put that up

online. Tomorrow because I've got a

Kubrick in the day. So two creeks in them days,

meant to be working, but I will be be working, I will be working out so the that'll be that'll be going up online and and Rob's like finally this cars out of my life finally it's not going to burn down my house ever again. Yeah.

Well what can I say? But yeah, that's virtually.

It's on how to classify. It's where you going to put it

on a hat. What haven't you asked for it?

I'm going to put it up on a car sales.

Excellent. Good choice.

And I'm going to put it on Gumtree as well.

Face, balls Marketplace is a bit.

Yeah, I I've sold things on there and I've dealt with people. It's just I can't be bothered.

So I'll just put on on the other two looking around the seven and a half, I think. So, fair price for it.

Absolutely. You tell me why the fellows is.

Got the Australian flags on the front guy.

I can put it in there. I've still got that first.

I think you should audition. Yeah I think so.

I think that's a fair price considering they're going for like 12 and there's one up there for like 19 Grand.

So I was like, you know, I don't think they're getting that money for it, but I think mines are nice.

Original example, you know it's got its got its flaws, but it's all original. There.

Yeah, so, yeah, let's go with that.

It would be happy to see the back of that.

And then, then it's the, then it's the next thing to do and then onto smaller and smaller things, if you know what I mean, David. Yes.

But anyway, tonight's topic gentleman is a all about something that is hunting. All right?

It's funny because before the show in the little Groucho will saying, Buntings doing the all about it and David are gonna.

You guys are gonna be about marks and I was like my book.

He says it's about a dollar I want for ya.

Now Marx, there you go. It's the topic of the is the

topic of the week or the month, you might say, rock the show.

The card small. The second smallest not going to

go on for hours. Let's just look forward to it.

Let's just punch through it a little bit.

So yeah, we talked about many marks.

There are an interesting car. Some facts are Can she met with

you? They were launched in 1964 in

the UK and they ran right through till kind of 1993.

And I'll go through that in a bit more detail later.

So they, they had by and large an incredibly long model run and many weeks over that time. Basically.

But go do they actually go that long?

293, not here, but in other country?

Yes, exactly. They did.

They did so, yeah. 1964 launched in the UK.

They made about 14,500, 18 of them exactly in the UK.

So, quite a lot, but most of those weren't destined for the UK Market. They were destined for export

markets. So despite there being quite a

lot built there, they are not that many remained in the UK.

As you can imagine, it was a terrible climate to have a Moke odours terrible roof. You know, weather is awful most

of the year and it's not Actually, what you want are running running around SX or something.

So to rewind a little bit that were badged as built initially by the British Motor Corporation or BMC.

Is we would have heard of they were badged as so BMC, mokes, Austin mokes, Morris smokes and also later on Leyland mokes with the official sort of, you know overarching Badges of them designed by Alec issigonis. The famous Greek man who also

designed a mini. So this Was kind of a more

utilitarian version of the mini. It shares the same subframes,

the same a-series engine. Same suspension system and

cooling system at all that stuff.

So Alec issigonis, another guy called John Sheppard, dreamt up, they smoke the concept and it was originally built for with the British Army in mind, apparently, Alec issigonis, had a thing for military vehicles. Always liked the idea of

building military vehicles and years And I think it was in the 1940s, I read. It was a cock old enough field

guppy that he kind of pain as a potential potential military vehicle, which didn't get off the ground.

Literally, I think. And and this one was kind of the

same, it was designed as a prototype, to be a sort of a lightweight military vehicle to be dropped by Parachute into, you know, war-torn areas and then could be driven around by the troops and there's even a dinky toy.

I think David if I'm not incorrect that that has the parachute and the model Moke, you know, you could do was not incorrect. There you go.

So yeah, but very quickly, the British army sort of said, well, this is underpowered and we can very little ground clearance.

It was on 10 inch wheels when it was launched which was the same as a original Mini, you can imagine it.

Yeah, fun little lightweight car but pretty useless off-road and not very powerful. So in the The you can imagine,

you know, having a tank or a Land Rover or something and then having a Moke and not great. So, I mean, sorry I did okay

like full drive. They did later on so that was

one of the criticisms. So they came up with a full

drive, my called a 20, which had twin engines and and yeah drive from both ends but it was plagued with mechanical issues and it was sort of again prototype with the military in mind, but didn't didn't cut the mustard, so they didn't.

Use it. But while the military the

British military sort of shunned this idea of the Moke there was I think the Navy took it on and they did use them as on aircraft carrier decks, you know, to drive around because they were easy to get in and out of and lightweight and could be sort of carried on to the aircraft or, you know, dropped onto the aircraft carrier. So easily.

Now, the word Moke comes from an old term for mule.

So, it's sort of like, a, like a pack horse, like a work vehicle.

So, the mini obviously because it's based on the mini and then the Mark was a mule part of it. And the prototypes were known

internally as Buckboard and I googled, you know, it was Project Buckboard and I googled a Buckboard and that was an open. Horse-drawn carriage with four

wheels and seating. That's attached to a plank

stretching between the front and rear axles.

So it's literally just a plank with four wheels.

That's kind of what I'm Oak is. So yeah, in terms of And as I

said, they made 14,500, add the UK 64 to 68.

They were produced in Australia between 68 and 81.

So again a very long model run here and we our Market got the most of them out of anywhere in the world really.

So consequently there's still quite a lot running around.

So 26,000 Mike's were produced in Australia from 68 to 81 and Maneuvers developments over that time by the end of the run in the early 80s here. They were all Bodies which it

didn't prevent them from rusting, but it certainly slowed, the rusting. So that was good Improvement.

They made various other tweaks, which I'll talk about later.

And then after 1981, the same tooling and everything went to the Leyland Factory in Portugal and they made them there from sort of 1980s to 1993. So 10,000 marks were produced

out of Portugal. So, hence 64. 293.

That's the official kinda run. And then the Rover Group in

1990, sold the name to cagiva, who I think are a motorcycle manufacturer. Am I right with that?

Yep, I think cagr VA cagiva and then there's a company called Moke International that started up which is owned by check or supplied by Cherry Chinese and and they still do stuff with the Moke name and new bodies. And they they didn't meet

Australian design rules. So they've never come here

officially, I do. Lave.

But they've got an electric version and modern fuel-injected versions and they don't look quite right.

They call them the choke in most circles.

So the Chinese folk the choke, are they still being sold?

I believe, so yeah, in other markets, I believe so yeah, yeah, she'll pie Cherry. Yeah.

Was that the electric one? Yeah, that was one of them.

They didn't jump to Electric but but that was one option.

Yeah, correct. Okay, in terms of engines, they

were the same layout. This front drive, just like an

original Mini and they basically had four sizes, the 850 same as an original Mini, the 998, the 11:00, and then the 1275, which is the same as a Mini Cooper S engine essentially.

So, those were the four engines in a mini pretty much the same as, in a mooc, there's three kind of main types of mope that get referred to these little wheel mokes, there's export mopes and there's Big Wheel Works.

So, When you talk, Little Wheel marks and big wheel marks, the very early cars. If you look at them with, as I

said, running around on those 10 inch wheels.

And if you look at, there's a James Bond film, where they have a whole bunch of yellow ones in an underground bunker and they're all running around their tiny little wheels.

That's, that's what you call the Little Wheel Mark, which was you sort of 68, sorry, 64 to kind of 68 is vintage.

And then they brought in the big wheel marks which were I think about 12 or 13 inch rim on those.

So it's very easy if you sort of Looking at one, that's a real early car versus a slightly later car.

It's a little wheel one, it's a big one, that's a big distinction, the export marks for an interesting one.

So when they're being produced out of Australia, that was a whole batch that they had 1275, bigger Motors, they had slightly different indicators on, they had big wheels on them.

The fuel tank was mounted, not in the slide, sort of pannier, but you know, under the rear and they were destined for the US market. For whatever reason they didn't

make rules or something and they didn't end up there.

So they ended up running around here but they were distinctly a bit different to the local monks.

So they're known as an export mug and though because they were going to the US, they started calling them Californian mok's, later on, they did a sort of a couple of batches of Californians because it was very, very evident by this stage that these were not a military vehicle.

These could not be used for any sort of useful purpose.

So, So they were like, right, well we got to Market these two, just civilians, you know, these are going to be a passenger car kind of thing. So they tried to dress them up

with some special bits, and the Californian was one of those things. So the very light one, so 79 80,

81, 82. I think the last ones were sold

out of Australia or in some time in 82, if you got a Californian, you got some juicy extras, like, The sunrise your wheels, the little Roo bars, front and rear to California and stickers on the Bonnet. The denim Hood, the denim seats

in blue front disc brakes on the 1275 and you could get those as either a 1275 or 998. So you could have a slightly

smaller slightly bigger motor with a Californian, but it was kind of like the ultimate passenger car version of a Moke.

You know, designed for more. Yeah, Cafe culture.

Culture, rather than outright use Cafe Cafe culture.

Exactly. The a series motor that I

mentioned before, you know, the biggest was a 1275, you've people have rumored to take those out, like, bore them out, to some ridiculous levels. Apparently 1330 is a very common

bore out to get slightly more power and torque and that's fairly safe. I've heard of them going out to

1450 CC, which is Getting very close to where water jackets and oil jackets in the engine start to meet Pistons.

So you've got to be very careful going out to that level and there was some things online talking about go taking about 1565 and stuff like that which is just nuts and not advisable.

So there are a few people on the forums who are like.

Yeah I've seen it done but it'll last 10 minutes and you in those cook, you know, but it's very common to see my folks with different Motors. Or different versions of the, a

series motor in it. A lot of them don't have the

original 850 or the 998 or the 11:00 though.

There are 12 75 that's been bought out or brought in from the UK and bolted in because you know, those Motors were in a lot of different things. So it was fairly easy to get

parts for and and modify we're back.

Arby's extract as mild camshafts all very common on a on a hotted up Moke and they're so damned light that you know you put it 1450 tuned a series motor at the front of one.

They really are incredible to drive because all the weights over the front wheels, they're so low.

You can literally just Chuck them around roundabouts.

I've got a friend that's got one board out to 1450, is a like galvanized car. And I don't think I drove that,

but I certainly went in, at my God, it was scary, it was so good. So free for what it was and you

just approaching wound about to warp speed, and he just flicked it in. Flicked it out and do Doom like

it was on Rails. So there are fun thing.

Things. So, most parts of them talking

about, sort of, you know, what to look for.

If you're going to buy one, most parts are relatively easy to get. So all the body panels are

reproduced fuel tanks, you know, car bees, that sort of thing and not too hard to get. There are some unique things,

like the denim top on the later, Californians.

No one's remade that. So you people replace them with

blue vinyl and other things that aren't the denim.

But but you can't buy that original denim.

The original taillights 99% of She'll see running around if you sort of look at the rear lights. They're not right there.

Trailer lights or they're LED lights that have been replaced reason being. You can't buy The Originals so

they were made by Heller Australia I believe very hard to get and people are also worried about them getting stolen so I'll put these other LED lights on and sort of keep the good pair at home for you know a rainy day or so you can sort of understand when they when they get a bit hard to get.

But so there are some things that are thin on the ground And, you know, a good 1275 motor like a block is not easy to get these days. They've all been sort of rebuilt

and used in demand and whilst parts and pistons and things are not hard to get the actual block.

So getting a bit scarce famous Moke owners.

I came across a list of a few Lou Richards, had one Darren.

Hinch had a Moke Mike Munroe, cariann Kennelly, apparently got around Vienna rig Paul, Jennings.

Also, Brigitte Bardot back in the day, James Bond.

I think, was Roger, Moore drove on in Live and Let Die and Prisoner TV series. Yes, they they all featured

mokes, the, the Pitcairn Islands, I don't know if you've even heard of the pic, can I? Yes, I have.

Which are the islands of Pitkin, Henderson juicy and Joey know they're a group of four volcanic islands in the Southern Pacific Ocean now, In the early 70s and Mini Moke was the first motor car to be driven on Pitcairn Island which is the only one that's inhabited. I think and thereby became the

most remote vehicle on Earth. Apparently the reason the reason

they chose a Moke to be the only vehicle on Pitcairn Island was because they didn't have a Runway and there was no dock for a ship so it had to be lifted off by crane.

It was the only car that could be lifted by the islands crane onto the mainland. So In the somewhere in the early

70s and Mike found its way there.

But the rough terrain, and the heavy rainfall proved a bit too much for it and soon it broke down.

No, surprise eventually a second and then later, a third Moke was sent to the island and by cannibalizing, the three for spares, the sole vehicle remained running until at least 1988. And I did read an article about

that particular car. There was someone had photos of

it somewhere. So it was quite It's quite

interesting to see but yeah, imagine having that is the only vehicle on the entire Island be quite funny but I've never seen a car before. Yeah.

In terms of buying them, the biggest issue, like any classic car is rust, even though they are very simple structure because they've basically got no roof, you know, they've got no doors like any sort. If you leave At the weather, it

just rocks out the flaws straightaway and and the firewalls and all of that. Fortunately, you can buy all of

that pretty much. So, if you've got a bit of a

structure to work with, they can be restored.

But yeah, a lot of them have been painted 58 times.

They've had pink bunny rabbits put on them.

They've had Checker plate, you know, different radios, and custom hoods, and custom seats, and they found a lot of favor up north in magnetic Island and You know, Queensland and and places like that wa, you know, warmer climates.

And so a lot of them were used and abused as rental cars.

And yeah, generally it's very hard to find one that hasn't been sort of butchered. They've all been butchered and

the restored ones. Are ya?

All got stuff that isn't quite right on them normally and they're big dollars. I think two weeks ago one sold

at Shannon's which was a white Californian and 998 CC.

So not the biggest engine. And I got 48 and a half thousand

dollars at Shannon's. Well, you know, a basket case is

10 grand a car that's running driving but still needs a full Resto is 15 to 20 and anything decent sort of starts at 30 and goes up from there. So I rang a guy in Sydney who

had a one owner 44,000 K Californian 1275 white now it's old but it was on his website is sold and I rang him and just said what did you what did you get for that car?

And and he sort of was scooting around a bit and I said was it you know sort of under 50 and he said oh no more than that between sixty and seventy thousand.

He alluded that that castle. Whoa but that's a one owner

44,000 K original on restored cap.

So there's some stupid money being thrown around for the right machine. Sorry, what's a mechanical

issues? Do they have it?

Like I'm ignition systems, water pumps that I have any pretty robust, like an original Many the I series engine that they're actually pretty tough like a well-maintained.

A series will easily be good for 150,000 miles so they're not, they're not particularly weak in them.

In the Mechanicals, it was more, you know, you're surrounded by Lucas electrics. So you'll still have the typical

always that old British car headlights.

Stop working old British car, you know, distributor stops doing on. It's meant to be, you know,

they'll be that stuff. But a well-sorted, many you are

Well, sorted, Mike is actually a pretty tough little machine.

The being the engine being East-West.

You'll get if you don't have a distributor sort of cover at the front, you get a lot of water spray in wet, weather, that instantly kills it. I've had that in my mini, but

you fix that by putting a rubber glove over the distributor, you know, four fingers for each lead.

And then to thumb goes on the coil.

And you long as you keep a rubber glove taped up on the distributor. You won't get water in there and

you and you pretty good. Yeah, yeah, relatively Allen and

pretty robust the fuse boxes of the fuses people upgrade them.

But yeah, the fuse box is up on the firewall.

I think the original like mine's only got two fuses in it, but some people upgrade them to be a bit more robust than that, but, but yeah, you know, normally if you do a fuse in an old British cart, a few things go out, like, I've lost indicators and head, lights and wipers and yeah, must be a fuse, easy off we go.

Yeah, yeah. And like, like Mini's, you know,

it's important to keep up or oil changes because the sump shares, the, and the gearbox share the same oil.

So the gearbox is basically using the sump oil.

So, if you crunch gears and what have you and metal filings, are running around your engine and your oil for too long.

You don't want that. So the fix is to use a magnetic

sump plug that gathers up all those metal filings.

If you like crunching gears or you simply just change your oil regularly, you know, don't don't leave it for 3 years, like do it once every six months or a year. And, you know, Keep ticking, but

there's so many specialists, like, there's about four or five specialists in Australia, alone that cater for old Minis and mokes. There's plenty of stuff Parts in

the UK. They exported them around the

world. So, generally in most countries,

you can find someone that will supply Mo B.

No issues in traffic sitting in traffic.

I mean, again, like an old Mini the radiators on the side, you know, they don't all have massive issues with or, you know, massive cooling systems are pretty small radio.

So you want to make sure you're cooling systems a in good condition and be, you know, you could potentially fit a thermo fan if you were going to be doing a lot of traffic work but I haven't found the enough like my old Mini doesn't even have a temp gauge. So it has overheated a couple of

times over the years but not due to traffic.

Just you to there was something wrong like the water pump is on the way out or whatever. So it's one of those things you

know out of sight out of mind if you don't know what the temp is you don't worry about the gym. You just If we keep driving and

you know, something really goes wrong, you'll know about it and we steam coming out. Little will not be happy but

cast-iron block cast iron head you know, they're not they're not they're not a complex engine and you can pull the head off in about 20 minutes. If you know, got the right sized

bolts and all that stuff and you can have hardened valve seats, put in them like anything else to run on unleaded.

So yeah not a not a hard car like I crawled under my Moke the other day and Relief from the engine back.

There's just nothing. There's the hand brake cable.

There's just nothing. This is just a tiny bit of

wiring to retail. Like that, is it?

It's a chef. They're also used version 2 for

a while. Yeah, I should mention that they

were. There wasn't a legitimate youth

version for for a while. I always thought that you'd

version was someone had taken one and added you tray on it.

But they did that at the factory and it's actually sort of just added on top of the body being either, a youth versions, there are a lot of custom version. Ins for promo things and your

mail delivery. They were very popular with

newsagents for picking newspapers out of, you know, go crawling around suburbs and back in the day, So they were highly that were cheap and they were disposable.

They were highly customizable. And yeah, really, as I said

before often butchered, so it's very rare to find one.

That hasn't been destroyed, but fortunately, a lot of people are restoring them now and taking them back to kind of what they should be. So now the Hunt is on for the

diecast versions and you know, that the that dyke a series of James Bond cars that did feature.

Watch monk. In that sense.

That's right. Yep.

That was the one from reading that died.

I think we've had a blue and white candy, stripe sort of that's right. Yeah most of them came out is

two-seaters they did officially do some four-seaters that on the compliance rate will say you know, registers the four seed of it 9 out of 10 cars you see with four seats are actually on the compliance plate says, it's a two-seater.

So you've got to either get that engineered or take the seed out or, you know, work out how you gettin around that, if you're trying to read Joe one, which I'll be doing very soon.

Yours is a force that are the ones it four-seater but not in the compliance plate. So a lot of them had to reseat

added when they were new but they were never engineered back, then you didn't have to as a four-seater.

So officially, it's got to go by what's on the compliance plate.

So do I have left sash or three point seat belts?

What sort of said, yeah? Mine's got lap belts, which was

what they had originally the later cars that had the rollbar sort of the white roll bar in them the belts.

We're inertia reel. Sort of mounted to the to the

roll bar. So they were three point, but

mine doesn't have the roll bar because that was a standard 279 miles of lakes 78. Build.

And it was optional then so it literally on mine.

You know, you fold the top down its windscreen and then you got nothing, you know, it's got a hook back till the high back seats, which are a later addition.

The early cars had real low back seat.

Someone's got what they call the tombstone seats, you know, the biggest seat. But yeah, it's sort of like a

skateboard with nothing. Yeah.

They're a bit. Weird to get into because the

seal is quite wide. So you sort of put a leg in and

you kind of clam bar over this sealed to get into it, which is your only protection is kind of, you know, half a foot of seal.

But I mean, a Ford Ranger comes at you with a bull bar side on your you really, really screwed, but that's what makes it fun, you know, living on here. Yeah, it's better than a

motorbike. Oh Internet, it's not going to

fall over again. You stop at a red light.

That's just a damn. What you need.

You need to put a Hayabusa motor in it.

My people do put, you know, VTech Motors in Minis and yeah, it has been done. But yeah, I'm looking forward to

getting my on the road and, and zipping around in it because you, it's, it's sort of a bit like The Hondas camp in that.

It feels like a toy, it feels illegal and it feels like the deadly. That's what I seem to like.

I seem to like cars that defier. Defy, what it carries or

something. So, there you go.

A little bit of history on mokes.

That's very good. Any questions on the chassis?

Can you make a mini into a mic? When I, when I say chassis?

Then, there's not actually a chassis there.

Monocoque. So, the mini was a monocoque

body with subframes and engine and everything mounts to those exactly the same in the market. So there's a front and rear sort

of subframe and yeah, suspension and brakes and that's what that amounts to so. So it's not like you can sort of

take the body off one and put the body on another.

I mean, you'd literally be you could take out the subframes and the motors and everything are interchangeable.

You know, like if you've got a 1275 mini or a 998 mini, will that motor fit the Moke? Absolutely.

Will you know it's the same a-series engine and like if you look under my engine bay of the Moke and my engine bay, the mini, pretty much identical, you know?

Yeah. So radiator.

Same starter motor. Same place.

You know? All of that.

Yeah, a series. And my other question was Kate,

like you said this, this companies that are selling bits and pieces, do they sell like Hoshi like tubs and stuff?

So you can you can actually make.

Yeah, they do and I actually inquired about that because I back in February when we went over to Classic Japan, there's a company called mini sport in Adelaide who Supply a lot of Minion Mark pass around Australia.

They're very good and they have a supplier of new bodies so you can out of the UK, get a brand-new Moke body.

And if you've got a donor car here that's got all the bits on it. In theory, you can use the new

body and and make that your car you know without having to sort of weld and restore a body here. However they're not legal you

know you can't legally rebirth a new body into being what was your old car. Now then you get into this fine

line of well if I replace all the panels on my old one is that not the same thing? Is it not better to just start

with a new body and make That my car.

So there are cars running around in Australia that have had a new body and all the old compliance plates and B put onto it or restored, you know? And I'm kind of like I don't see

anything wrong with that. The old cars off the road, you

know, the old body's gone to scrap so it still exists.

It's just a new body, you know. Like like I don't, I don't

especially on a vote could because as you say, it's actually, there's so little to them, you know, a little to them, you know, it's I don't really see the difference between restoring a body at painstaking effort and just buying a brand new one, and it's a far easier.

Thanks to start from, but technically they're not legal, you know, to drive on the road to you, if you do that.

So, it's got to be recreational car or a private road, or whatever it is. You're going to put on Club

plates. Absolutely.

Mine's got the original plates, still bolted to it, which is a great asset to have, but it's been a registered for many years, so I don't own the rights to those.

So if I wish to buy that, I've got to pay 500 bucks to the privilege of keeping those plates, but I'll keep the physical ones that are better there in the cupboard that I.

Yeah, I'll Club plate. If you can't justify spending

eight hundred sixty bucks a year.

Just will not I can on one card, but not on, not on, not on my cars. Assistant multiples.

Yeah, So yeah, that'll go and complex.

Yeah, so that's that you marks that you mugs.

Thanks for that. That was actually with Maris.

Do you little tidbits here? That's really, really good.

Thanks Ed. No worst Rob.

You've got a 8,500 P6 or P5.

Is what was it? The 73 is a force.

M P6 as a 4-speed manual. Oh, that's a 3500, s.

Yes, as a fairly unique are, but the brakes and the clutch were all interlinked. Oh, the same Reservoir, was it

and Reservoir? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Please hear claps, you lose your brakes.

You know, they like to go out with a bang that you want to work on them and I had broken lenses and stuff like that to get it back on a road and it was very difficult to find parts for it, very difficult. I'm surprised that that because

the P6 and normally you can get bits for them.

Pretty readily the 3500. S was the 3.5 liter of Rover V8

that was in. All the Range Rovers and

everything that used that 3.5 liter Buick motor.

Basically, that's easy enough to give B 4.

And again relatively robust, the motors themselves are pretty tough. It was all the electrics around.

It was she but the the common conversion on those and even on 35 hundreds, that were automatic was to put a super 5-speed behind them. And there was an adapter, you

know, Dad's right, Bill housing or whatever and people would put a Toyota Supra, 5-speed. And apparently they are

phenomenal. Once you did that, Because I was

such a nice tool, key cruzi car, straight unique car.

There that P6 because it had inboard rear disc brakes like a Jaguar rear end similar thing. It had horizontal front Springs

like doody on suspension, every panel on those was unbolt able.

And I mean every panel. So not just doors and boots.

And bonnets like the seals, the roof, the pillars, like, you unbolted, every panel and you could literally drive around in a Ellen, like a had this inner shell like a structure which was really Advanced, you know, for its time that car came out in 1965. See, you know, compared to the

other rubbish. That was running around in 1965

that car for wheel, discs and full synchromesh gear boxes and every panel on multiple and the Bonnet the boot or aluminium and this lightweight aluminium V8 and you're kind of going.

Whoa. Okay, this this is an

interesting machine and safety thing it was incredibly safe car for its time. Yeah, he took water from the

sort of 40s 50s stodgy old man image into.

We know a really modern Sonic. Our image here is a shame that I

just couldn't find anyone to work on it.

And I really didn't know enough about it to work on it and in my major was a man, a mechanic. He was he was baffled.

Hey, yet with the how that clutch system worked at the brakes. Well they had two different

systems. It was an early.

Was it a Dunlop system? I think and then they went to

Girling later. Iran.

And I think it was the latest system that was fine but the early one was Troublesome or something like that.

It's a two models. We should send me to is

reasonably late. They ran those, they ran them

from 65 right up till seventy eight or nine.

I think 78 might have been the last of them and a guy, this one's came out when the sd1 came out which was a piece of shit.

But ap6 or the P5 before they were, they were lovely curves.

Yeah, you should have run me Rob.

I know. Guy that used to work at the

factory, feeding the air conditioning to them.

These are my Guru you know you back then and and I bought it as I got a gifted to me Sal got it for nothing.

Yeah, it's Google. So would quite with a line on

top yet? White vinyl top black interior.

You know a nice combination with the alloy wheels and whatnot.

But going up someone to arrive a collector in Ballarat is a mechanic. You knew a bit about it.

Yeah. You know, I was happy that it

went to a good home. Beautiful.

At the time, I got good money for it.

I've got a close to 3 Grand for it.

So and that Rover V8 had the beautiful note to it, you know, anytime you start an early range, you start one of those.

It's a problem, it's lovely night had his shoes, didn't it?

Yeah, between yes, use, hmm. And all the men, he's like in

the mokes, they all ran issues from the factory.

People will put Weber's on them, you know, get them getting bit more fuel and what have you which if you do that correctly, Work well, but and I'll just on their own way the car because I had an MG Midget for years, which, again, a series motor, same as Austin-Healey Sprites, you know, they're all running the same Motors, but on my midget ahead of where Bacardi in the guy that set that up when he rebuilt, the motor said, a lot of people will get a 45 Weber bolted on think that's going to solve every problem I've ever had, you know, it's going to be amazing. And you said, at 8000, RPM down

the street at Phillip Island. It will be amazing, but come

around a corner and you want that Lowdown.

Parent at low tide talk. He said, if you don't get the

car be right internally, you don't get that flow happening.

Oh, to be like you have a narrower pipe, you know, liquid will move through it quicker than if you have a great big pipe, you know, where it can just do little fruit.

So he he said, I always get the car bees down to 37 mil Jets on a 45 Weber to get that flow happening and he did that on mine and it was fantastic. He come around a corner, second

gear and it would bang, it was ready to go.

It was a really nice warm, Road car Um so it's important if you're going to just go bolt on extracted bolt on copy whatever to get that done right by people who know fortunately there's a lot of them out there reasonable amount still and yeah there's a lot of know-how worldwide for those, a series engines.

So it's um, it's a good power. Plant to have very good.

Hmm. Well gentlemen, I think it's

time for the quiz. Whoa, let's go.

Please time. So you know the rules 10

question for some bonus questions, let's get into it.

Robin Harley you guys are going to dominate tonight.

You guys are my oh my pic so question.

One, Great Wall started selling Vehicles here in Australia.

In what year Ed? Good.

Don't worry I'll get it wrong. Great Walls of the first Great

Walls, 2004 incorrect. David David?

It was like that that 2007 incorrect don't really cares but no one really cares. Yes, this is.

All right, I'll take a step 2010.

Well, we'll take a stab. I reckon earlier recognizes ran

about 20 2003, incorrect, 2009 was the 91 off.

By this question, what is Great? Walls, largest export Market,

Australia and when you are correct.

It is Australia. Oh yeah question.

Which car company? Owns Rolls-Royce David David now

currently currently because there's the question, Currently, I think it's still BMW. It is BMW.

That is correct, but that ain't going to work.

Question 3. The BMW Z8 front grille and side

vents were inspired by what car? David?

David, again, it was the coop, a BMW Coupe.

A was the 703. Okay good.

Was it the E9 incorrect? Not the MC cleaner.

Jeez. I think I'm going to get out of

the. You guys are going to get it.

I'll give you guys a couple couple more seconds.

Oh, wasn't inspired around a 2000 series.

Was it? It wasn't.

It was inspired by the BMW. 507 really Elvis Presley.

Had one of those. You know what?

I say 7:03. Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, I can picture the car of mine but it's yeah.

Bye. Bye, 3.

It's a pretty common to get that now.

Yeah, just checking out now. Yeah, it's nice.

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But they didn't tell holly I think they thought about 600 or so like they've been somewhat well at all.

Wow bonus question. How many cylinders did the 507?

Have it good. Well they said it was a Sikhs I

think incorrect. It's got its got eight.

There was a V8. Well done.

Let's go check. Ed Scott and David on one Robbie

at the score, question for the new Civic Type.

R has been said to have make how much power in kilowatts please David David, thanks, 235. 235 is absolutely correct.

Mr. Principal dumb - question, how many more kilowatts is that

over the outgoing model or day? David is a for incorrect or

eight. Good 15 kilowatts in corrects

Kody and Robyn Holly. You guys got the chance to go

for the steal. Here are Canal ones, Maybe Here,

maybe. Ten.

Kilowatts this correct, it's a tight, isn't it?

Okay. Scotty 87 is the answer for

question. 5 worldwide. David.

David was the 80s. Incorrect are head.

Evan Is it was the 70s. Well done. 78 was the, it was

released really bonus question. What does the word Supra

actually mean? Quite Crickets Cry question.

I've never really thought about it.

Yep. See fry.

And it's not soup Ray. It's not that it's not the

clothing shop. It's not easy.

Is it like short for like super Rally or something incorrect?

Scotty I'm out. Yes though.

No one. What is it?

Mary? You guys give up.

Yeah, was offered some sort of animal.

Nine. Correct it's Latin for above

surpass and go beyond the Yeah question six.

We all know the bends in Mercedes Benz was named after Karl Benz. But where did they get Mercedes

from Ali? Got in there.

First, the daughter of one of the customers is correct.

He was a customer and he became the first distributor.

Absolutely correct. Well done.

He worked with Daimler very closely.

It was named after his daughter. Richard is well done.

Amos first name, they got real beans.

Who was mr. Daimler not lie.

Correctly. Godly, yeah, yeah.

Go now, yeah. Let's go check to tend to David

112. Scotty and Rob still guess what

anybody's game? Put them true.

Okay question sir. See how many Ozzy delivered

200SX as 15 chassis worse were sold in Australia and give closest to this one? So how many S15 300s Sexes were

sold here in Australia? It was he delivered once has it

can go first. 9009 que hace, 55 cater to David David one thing,

and just a thousand thousand, Too Short.

Robert Harley We work in 12. The answer is they sold exactly

three thousand eight hundred seventy nine of the things.

So it's chocolates there, although not a lot really, not a lot of it. They didn't sell many of them.

Bonus question, what does the word Sylvia actually come from?

Ed Edd and woman's name is incorrect David.

I'll go for the Ferrum chemicals.

Chemical element be incorrect. Mr. Scotty on mr.

Robin Harvey. I found anything I could have a

guess. Also the guy for Quicksilver but

the end. I'm not correct.

Mr. Mr. Robert Scott, you out? Yeah.

It was the name of the nibs who served the Roman goddess of hunting Chastity Diana? Yeah, it was named after.

It also means forest in Latin. So if you were to decide that I

wouldn't have given that to you as well.

So yeah, they're all that rich. That Mattel.

Akiko we green, silver? Yellow, forest green, I'm sorry.

Fitz is a cold fire straight years ago.

And I've never seen so many in one place and I've never seen so many shades of that color. I think either about they would

least 20 cars here in Oregon or 15 different shades of the same color. So everyone was sure this was

the original one but I think would have been very confronting for some of the Whoops, didn't think it through hang on a minute. Remaining is the right green?

No, well, see you say that. But the original Sylvia's that

were sold, they were all handmade so that probably wouldn't be too far from the truth because they, you know, they were all hand assembled and put together.

So I had to several but I don't think they would have made a different color and for each of my life you never know like the in terms of like you paint quality then they were there not done by robots. I don't think when there was the

60s That's backwards. Hey, there would have been,

like, even now my panel guy said there's, there's usually 11 or 12 slight, variations of even Factory robot to Mars and that's why they've got some machine that goes on the paint and it, you know, it tells you which, which is very a graph.

Yeah, whatever it is. But, um, so you think if that's

now back in the 60s, when they're painting, and by hand, they will, there would have been variations, absolutely Christian A's TI d stands for what Edgar? Toyota rally design incorrect,

Holly got in there. Koda comes from what country

it's good. Yes, it was.

So before we get into the last question let's go check it with three. David, three Roman Leon to and

mr. Scotty unfortunately, you cannot

witness it tonight. Question 10.

What? BMW chassis was was the first to

ever receive a V12 engine. Hey, did he 32 7 series III?

See some series is absolutely correct and Well Done coming in clutch they're taking the chocolate Edward.

Well done, well done, my bad. If you know that David I did

that because I went to the motor show Was released.

It was the only time my wife came to the motor show with me.

And I said, oh, that's the new BMW and she said, why is it called 75 oil? Ha ha ha ha.

He five-wheel other brutally than it takes in only five liters? Yes, that's right.

It was like that. The one with the guy has a lot.

Come on their dashboard. That's a guy sitting on the

toilet reading. A number 44 degrees, Well done,

well done, guys, good battle tonight.

So if you want so that's that's that's what that means.

And the other one that was a bit of a weird one.

Supra is Latin for above surpass or And go by go beyond.

So, to go for those, well, done gentlemen's.

I think that's a podcast. Thank you very much Matthew.

You miss. Thank you, Maddy.

Now, aggressive will get, we're going the screens for some plugs Bunting and Prince. Your turn.

We used to do a podcast on auto retro or interviewing people about the cars of their lives. We haven't done it for a while

because our editor is indisposed, but it will be back with new episodes in the near future bigger and brighter.

Hmm, Probably sounds sounds good.

Robert Harley Rob's Fabrications operations and Blasting and no more firefighting because ltd's going.

So out of my business, he's got rid of all these fire extinguishers. Wishes that he doesn't need them

anymore. So that's plenty of fire,

extinguishers, because I keep on burning my barbecues.

Ha ha ha, it's good. No nothing.

Everything seems to be working everywhere.

Yeah, well, I would for good reason, I haven't driven the, the old, the old bends in a while for fair reasons, but will glance over that car Loop help of we raised you and what you should be paying for cars, go to color.com to a.

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