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Thursday, 2 December 2010

Mystery Mini derivative (3)

The Japanese like Mini derivatives. And I like the Japanese.
But what on earth could these sporty twins be?
They were spotted at a Mini event on Fuji Speedway a couple of years ago and I suspect them to be Mini based too.
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11 comments:

  1. Tim3 December 2010 at 05:09

    They look like the "Mokes" that are raced in Japan. I don't know much about them but they seem to use a heavily modified Moke inspired body.

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  2. Maximum Mini3 December 2010 at 07:39

    You're right Tim!
    I just found out they were designed and built in Japan for their own race class. Crazy stuff. Apparantly 27 were built.

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  3. Anonymous3 December 2010 at 11:36

    I could check my old miniworlds.. maybe thay have featured the event..

    Jaapio1984

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  4. Jaapio3 December 2010 at 11:48

    ok some additions.. i hope..

    did google search
    racing moke on Fiuji Circuit
    translated it to Japanes

    found this
    [img]http://naha.cool.ne.jp/ts800/FISCO/fisco01/K4GP2001211/race/061.JPG[/img]
    page
    http://naha.cool.ne.jp/ts800/FISCO/fisco01/K4GP2001211/race/k4gp-r.html

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  5. Jaapio3 December 2010 at 11:52

    another one.. looks like the one on your picture

    http://nfrt37.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/images/2009/02/18/moku_003.jpg

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  6. Jaapio3 December 2010 at 11:59

    last one for now..
    it really helps to use google translate to japanes.. and than search for images on google.co.jp

    http://www.ne.jp/asahi/ts800/hp/PUBLICA-R_project/2005-05-22/photo/moke-R.jpg

    site
    http://www.ne.jp/asahi/ts800/hp/PUBLICA-R_project/2005-05-22/PUBLICA-R_project-9.htm

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  7. Maximum Mini3 December 2010 at 14:16

    Great detective work Jaapio.
    Keep them coming!

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  8. Racing Green (Bart)15 December 2010 at 13:38

    That type of racing moke even exists as a scale model in pink, a friend of mine has one, will post a picture if I get it.

    Here's a different type of racing moke, also in Japan:

    http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j171/pre-48/Mokes/62.jpg

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  9. racing Green (Bart)15 December 2010 at 20:11

    Here's a picture of the scale model, owned by "FunnyChris": http://users.telenet.be/ontheroad/mini/foto/Race-Rally%20004.jpg

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  10. Chris Rees6 January 2011 at 12:15

    These are indeed Japanese Moke-based cars, called the Sport Tottini. They were conceived by a computer software company called Y&T Associates. The glassfibre body transformation was undertaken by Mooncraft in 1994-1996 and featured an Austin-Healey Sprite style grille and a long rear deck. Two versions were made: a single-seater for racing, and a two-seater for road use.
    Cheers, Chris Rees

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  11. Maximum Mini6 January 2011 at 20:44

    Great to hear of you here Chris. You are the man to crack these mystery nuts! Plenty more are under way. Best, Jeroen

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