So while working today I saw this, I had to chase them down and talk to them.





They are a German couple on vacation in Michigan for 3 weeks.
I asked them where they were from and they pointed to the map of where they started off this morning.
I then asked what country and they told me in very broken English.
Their Unimog has a camper on the back, that thing is HUGE!!
They were trying to get to The Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Park in Empire.
They wanted to "drive along the sea" which really cracked me up, yes Lake Michigan does look like the ocean if you have never seen it before, but I mean it's just a lake.
Maybe I'm spoiled because I see it everyday while working and its only 30min from my house to go swimming?

 

I like their tag. My pal Hermann has driven these in Switzerland in the military, pretty fun on mountain roads... not as swanky as this one.

 

I like watching off road video's of those things on youtube, pretty cool trucks.
I had a delivery of racing tires for my friend at him European Auto Restoration shop today and showed him picks of the truck, he said the finial drive when in the correct gear is a worm gear and the truck will idle along at 1.5mph and climb over anything.
If it has traction on at least one wheel it will move he said.
He has talked to a guy in Germany who he buys all of his German car parts from and he told him about this, pretty wicked.

 

very cool !!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Looks like a doomsday prepper mobile fortress for sure.... or portable man cave

 

That is not a Unimog.

Looks more like a 1017A.

Here is another 1017 for reference:



No portal axles

-Trev
1988 Unimog U1300L RW1

 

Thank you for the correction, the Unimog has a van type of front end, theirs was flat like a cab over semi.
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Still very cool.

 

Not sure I'd call it a Van front end, but, I'm sort of bias

Here's mine.

 

Spike wants a company one for "Custom Critical"....

 

In the 80's I had an opportunity to buy one identical to this.



For under $10,000. I just didn't have the money.
It had about 2,000 miles on it. It was from a NATO (I think) air base. Apparently they are all required to have at least some snow removal equipment but this one was at a base in the sunny Mediterranean so it only got driven enough to keep it operational. Never got used in anger.

Some more pictures of the one above are here: http://bringatrailer.com/2009/02/15/...g-snow-blower/
The circular parts of the windscreen spin to fling off the snow, more effective than wipers.