Mini Moke GJB 121 C
Trips after first rebuild 1995 - 2014
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First Rebuild - Completed 1995. - please use this link
Long Distance Trips after 1st rebuild (1995 - 2014)
Long Distance Trips after 1st rebuild (1995 - 2014)
Trip to Blackpool - July 1995 : This was the first long trip undertaken after the first rebuild completed in April 1995. I was accompanied by my son Simon and brother Bill to the Mini Moke National Meeting.
We drove up to Blackpool for the event and then toured the Forest of Bowland area where the Crumbleholme family originate. A round trip of 722 miles.
We even got a mention in the local press ! (see below)
Right : On Blackpool seafront
(Simon / Richard / Bill)
15th September 1995 - 1st Moke Club Welsh Weekend
Started 15/9/1995 and after 10.5hrs and 274miles arrived Tal y bont north Wales .
Overall trip 712 miles average MPG : 45.6.
19th September 1996 - Moke Club Welsh Weekend
Overall trip 762 miles
19th September 1997 - Moke Club Welsh Weekend
Visited Portmeiron village (took Moke into it). Overall trip 688 miles
Above : During my 1st Welsh Weekend, in September 1995 - a stop with Snowdon in the background.
Above : September 1997 - We were allowed to take our Mokes down into the village at Portmeiron
Above : Mokes were the village taxis in "The Prisoner " cult TV series (Sept 1967 - Feb 1968) Youtube link :
14th September 1998 - Moke Club Welsh Weekend
Overall trip 648 miles
1996 ?? - Trip to French Alps (Simon Crumbleholme - my son)
After the first rebuild, my son Simon learnt to drive in the Moke (with lessons as well) and then drove it to college in Weymouth and later to university in South Wales. Being a keen mountain biker, he designed a bike rack for the moke.
Summer 1996 ?? - Together with his friend Scott, he drove down to the French Alps with snowboards and two mountain bikes on the rear rack. Having got off the ferry in France, unfortunately the windscreen was smashed so they drove the whole trip without a screen using their snowboard goggles.
Above : Rear bike rack that was made to Simon's design in 1996. It has two legs that fit into a plate bolted on the rear subframe and is also bolted to the rear bumper tube. We still have this rack.
Above : Rack for two bikes has rear number plate & lights with a trailer type 12v socket
2000 - 2014 :
Having moved to Winterbourne Steepleton in 2000 (about 4 miles west of Dorchester),
Below : c 2009/2010 The Moke was always popular with my grand children !
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