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From: pennell@isosvax.UUCP (T.A. Pennell)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: The Prisoner's car
Message-ID: <188@isosvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Dec-84 10:20:23 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 13 10:20:23 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 18-Dec-84 03:33:33 EST
Organization: Intel Corp, Phoenix (Deer valley), AZ
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I have received a question or two regarding the Prisoner's car, which I
identified as a Mini-Moke, built by BMC. According to my resident source
of Mini lore, the Mini-Moke was introduced to an unsuspecting world in
1960 or 1961, thereby predating the VW "THING" by at least ten years. As
I said before, never mind that the "THING" was a resurrected WWII staff
car. Hitler wasn't really interested in selling them.

I really don't know what BMC's distribution of the Mini-Moke was, and have
seen very few of them in the continental U.S. There were a few in the Virgin
Islands in 1974 (my last visit there), but most of those had gone to rust.
VW Things dominated the rental lots then.

T.A. Pennell, Intel Phoenix

"You can tell he's a British car nut. There's a puddle of oil under his chair."