It is pretty quiet here...…...
Am I allowed to share some other Mini (non Moke) stories and pics?
We bought our first Mini in 1965. It was a 1963 850 that my sister had bought new.
6 weeks before we were married in 1967, we rolled it, but convinced the insurance company to repair it, then drove it to Darwin and back to Adelaide in 3 weeks for our honeymoon. That was before the Stuart "Highway" was surfaced.
It had a home made roof top tent, a heavily reinforced sump guard and a couple of driving lights, but was otherwise standard. I fitted it with Pirelli radial tyres which most people at the time said was stupid, but they performed well.
Coming through a bull dust hole north of Coober Pedy.

Parked up for the night on the side of the road, jacked up to perform the daily inspections.
These days you have to have a 4WD to drive roads like this.


More if anyone is interested....
Cheers,
Peter