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"Everybody should own a MINI at some point, or you are incomplete as a human being" - James May
"WET COOPER", Partsguy1 (Terry Snell of Penticton BC ) - Could you send the money for the unpaid parts and court fees.
Ordered so by a Judge
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~ 30 minutes in a Mini is more therapeutic than 3 sessions @ the shrink. ~
Mike 
NB, Canada
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Your pictures wouldn't come up, maybe because post is so old. Anyway you could repost them or email some pictures?
Those mokes are a big part of my childhood.
Thanks, Scott
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Thanks for bringing back some incredible memories with those photos..The blue mini looks like it sitting out side our old home,When i got out of high school i worked on the island doing moke repairs..That was 39 years ago..Man time flies
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| Originally Posted by meb Not sad at all. The Catalina Mokes ended up with Tom Schram(?Sp) in Minnesota and Larry Hollaway in NJ and most of them were brought back to life. I think Larry is down to about 10-13 of them. Over the years a lot of Moke enthusiasts have restored these Catalina Mokes one at a time. Some time in the 1990s Dennis Simmanitis drove one of the restored Mokes from Maryland to California along US-50. It was covered in a story in Road&Track. My daughter and I are currently restoring one of them.
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This one was an Ex-Catalina Moke - brought from Tom back in 1995.
Martin.
My mind's made up - don't bother me with facts!
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That's a fairly diverse range of ages and models. Are 90's imports allowed on the Island as the bulk seem to be SPI models?
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Thats cool. Way back in 1971 is when I got married. My wife and I went to Catalina for our honeymoon. While we were there, we rented a Moke to cruise the island. Back then; I had no idea that a Moke was in fact a Mini. And I didn't know at that time that I would be getting a Mini 30 years later. Kinda strange....maybe thats where I caught the fever that showed up decades later.
Great things come in small packages
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It was maybe the one Quicksilver bought and put together.
If in doubt, flat out. Colin Mc Rae MBE 1968-2007.
Give a car more power and it goes faster on the straights,
make a car lighter and it's faster everywhere. Colin Chapman.
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Mr. Racine,
The question still stands. Whatever happened to the 1966 850 Austin Moke from Catalina Island that you purchased from me many moons ago??? Thanks. Mini Estate
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I have a picture of when I was a kid with my dad sitting in a Moke on Catalina Island. Need to find it and mom and dads house and post it.
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This theard explanes the Catalina Moke, you have to see the pictures.
//www.minimania.com/web/threadid/104113/msgthread.cfm
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Yeah, where's all the Mokes??? The Island used to be crawling with them back in the day. I owned one of them once. I bought it from a guy in Los Angeles. It was supposedly the nicest Moke left out of an entire fleet of Mokes that were used by a particular Resort. It was a '66 with an 850 all original. I had it shipped to Portland, Oregon. Small world, it ends up when I went decided to sell it, I called Don Racine to have him list it in one of the early Mini Mania Sale Flyers, (before websites and such). He bought it from me sight unseen! And so Don, whatever did you do with that lil' beast???
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| Originally Posted by SCUM Did you see any Mokes or are they all gone? Here is my ex-Catalina Island Moke! |
Not one! I looked cuz I remember my father renting one in the late 70's to drive us around the island.
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Did you see any Mokes or are they all gone? Here is my ex-Catalina Island Moke!
SCUM #2. "Life is too short to own just one classic Mini!"
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Just got back from a few days on Catalina Island. Was amazed with the all the mini's they had there. Took as many pictures of the ones I found that I could. Few got away from me, couldnt get the camera out fast enough.Here's what I saw there.
