The Mini Pickup? The charmingly hyphenated Mini Pick-up was exactly what it sounds like. It was a Mini pickup truck built from 1961 to 1983. You might be thinking a Mini wouldn't make a great pickup truck, and you'd be right -- but how cool would it be to drive a Mini truck? In 1978, the name changed to the Mini 95, along with the Mini cargo van that was available at the time. It was named 95 because it had a gross vehicle weight of 0.95 tons. *