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Howard - 5-4-2013 at 09:44 AM

http://bajasur.es.craigslist.com.mx/rvd/3784164133.html

ligui - 5-4-2013 at 10:54 AM

Nice !! :bounce:

And the price is great ...

Only 14,350 miles?

durrelllrobert - 5-4-2013 at 11:09 AM

Obviously the previous owner was a Montana rancher that only drove it on his ranch on Sundays.

chuckie - 5-4-2013 at 11:15 AM

There was an even kooler one at the NORRA 1000 last week....On my uncles ranch in Montana, 14,350 miles would get you around the pereimeter maybe twice, yesssir its true :biggrin:

DavidE - 5-4-2013 at 11:15 AM

Ever ride in a cab-over small rig like an Isuzu?

It's like riding a teeter-totter that lands you on a rock every time.

A thousand dollar Freedman air seat, and compressor system would be essential.

Try feeding a gen set with $3.30 gallon diesel.

Bob and Susan - 5-4-2013 at 11:28 AM

yea at $100 a nite for a room that's 1600 nights

that's about 4 1/2 years of motel rooms

then try to fix it ... $$$

durrelllrobert - 5-4-2013 at 11:30 AM

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Originally posted by DavidE
Ever ride in a cab-over small rig like an Isuzu?

It's like riding a teeter-totter that lands you on a rock every time.

I once owned a '57 Jeep Forward Control (cab-over) truck that I used for deer hunting in the Eastern Sierras. Visibility was great on the goat trails and I never landed on a rock. Mine had a 283 cid Chevy and overdrive that made it great on the highway too.

DavidE - 5-4-2013 at 11:39 AM

Rig, not a Willys. Try it in an Isuzu sometime

vgabndo - 5-4-2013 at 03:27 PM

I personally would stay away from that configuration on snow and ice. When the front wheels are ahead of you and the back wheels start coming around, I feel it in the seat of my pants WAY before I could in a VW van for instance. When sitting on the pivot, the sensation of getting sideways seems to be changed.

With no steel reinforcing in the foam box on the back, at 160 grand, I wouldn't want to even slide it into roadside brush!

Maybe this is just more of my resentment of conspicuous consumption. :lol:

mtgoat666 - 5-4-2013 at 03:39 PM

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Originally posted by Howard
http://bajasur.es.craigslist.com.mx/rvd/3784164133.html

nice unimog.

but $159K is pretty pricy for a toy, and a glorified camper at that.

for $159K I can have a really nice sailboat and still go car camping just fine with my 4runner!

unimogs look like fun, until you realize you have to use it all the time to justify the money you spend buying one! :light:

chuckie - 5-4-2013 at 04:04 PM

Most of this smacks of "I cant afford it, so its no good"..I cant either, but if I could I would...

ligui - 5-4-2013 at 04:23 PM

No smacks , it's nice and would love to take one down Mex. 1 and the side roads . :bounce:

I'm ready !!

rhintransit - 5-4-2013 at 06:12 PM

me. too!

Not Nice in Snow and Ice ?

MrBillM - 5-4-2013 at 07:48 PM

Says Vag:

"I personally would stay away from that configuration on snow and ice".

Would that include the Steyr-Puch Haflinger ?

Seemed like they worked pretty well.

But, then, they probably didn't have to deal with snow and ice much.

Given the mild European climate.

CortezBlue - 5-5-2013 at 08:44 AM

Now with this I could probably get my wife to camp!!

chuckie - 5-5-2013 at 09:08 AM

At the ranch for a while we had an Isuzu Diesel Cabover, truck config....Never noticed a hip hop ride, would go about anywhere in Snow or Mud...Had a Pinzgauer for a while Kool, but no parts...

Pinzgauer

MrBillM - 5-5-2013 at 09:42 AM

There was (is ?) an outfit behind Harbor Freight Tools in Hemet that was marketing the vehicles and parts. They always seemed to have a decent stock on hand.

durrelllrobert - 5-5-2013 at 11:21 AM

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Originally posted by MrBillM
There was (is ?) an outfit behind Harbor Freight Tools in Hemet that was marketing the vehicles and parts. They always seemed to have a decent stock on hand.

I remember seeing those when I lived there. Uglier the hell.

Built in the UK by BAE

durrelllrobert - 5-5-2013 at 11:28 AM

Here's a picture

vgabndo - 5-5-2013 at 12:24 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by MrBillM
Says Vag:

"I personally would stay away from that configuration on snow and ice".

Would that include the Steyr-Puch Haflinger ?

Seemed like they worked pretty well.

But, then, they probably didn't have to deal with snow and ice much.

Given the mild European climate.

I assume you are referring to their use in killing and getting killed, which is a lot different than heading to Yreka over Black Butte Summit on Interstate 5 in a white out. In the latter case the intention is to come home without anyone dying There is far more utility in any number of other vehicles which are easier to control and STOP. These things were built for war. I guess they are good for that as long as the enemy doesn't know how to build an IED.

For a civilian...conspicuous consumption. 1 Timothy 6:10 :lol:

chuckie - 5-5-2013 at 12:36 PM

Wow! Thats a bit holier than thou...The Pinzgauer was a fun project, and we used it everyday, if you havnt seen NW Kansas snow and mud you dunno what yuck is...The Pinzi never once said, I'd like to kill some one today....It just did its job....Snow on an interstate? WOW! gimme a break..

acadist - 5-5-2013 at 02:24 PM

here's another one you may like;
http://www.earthroamer.com/
what I like better about this one is they are one of my customers and the more nomads buy them the more Baja trips I can afford

durrelllrobert - 5-5-2013 at 07:33 PM

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Originally posted by acadist
here's another one you may like;
http://www.earthroamer.com/
what I like better about this one is they are one of my customers and the more nomads buy them the more Baja trips I can afford

Wow! I'm going to forward the link to a relative that services remote oil wells in Canada. I'm sure he would be interested. Can you provide (or U2U me) the approximate price?

Killer JEEPS ?

MrBillM - 5-5-2013 at 09:10 PM

They were, after all, designed for the same purpose.

Which is not a negative.

Necessity IS the Mother of Invention.

And, there's no bigger MOTHER than losing at war.

vgabndo - 5-6-2013 at 03:35 PM

Mr. Bill Says: And, there's no bigger MOTHER than losing at war.

When did wilderness camping become war, and when did a camper start needing a military vehicle to go camping?

If one doesn't have the personal conviction, physical health, and ingenuity required to camp in a remote area without the need for a hundred gallons of diesel fuel to to light the stove and make light to cook by, one can always spend $170,000 and grind-up the countryside trying to get where a backpacker goes. The backpacker may do so without turning-over a stone.

Remember, if you have any money in any bank, you have more money than 75% of the humans on this earth. Conspicuous consumption by the few, it seems, must contribute to the poverty of the many.

Chuckie says: Snow on an interstate? WOW! gimme a break..

Kansas, Chuckie? Kansas? Mt. Sunflower, the highest point in all of Kansas, and home of the many world renowned ski areas, tops out at 4039 feet. The tiniest pimple of a mountain with a name around here is Black Butte at 6334. The I-5 crossing of Black Butte summit is at 3912. (that is still 4000 feet lower than the highest paved road adjacent to town) People manage to crash and close I-5 here EVERY year even in very moderate storms. The most snow I've ever seen at Black Butte was seven feet, but the wind blows a lot of it away. We commonly get a foot a day for days. Last winter in Kansas a new record was set when you were slammed with 8.5 inches of snow in the NW area.

Snow on an interstate, yes, often, severe, and made more dangerous by drivers who think that 8" is a lot of snow.

I'll admit that 40 years of dodging out-of-control flatlanders has left me a bit judgmental. :lol:

chuckie - 5-6-2013 at 04:22 PM

I lived and ranched in Colorado for most of my life, left when the Kalifornians began to Kalifornicate it....Snow on an interstate? give me a break, try working cows at 6000 feet in march....Once a military vehicle is retired, it becomes whatever it becomes....If you believe they have a soul, you are going to the wrong church...Dont drive anything made by General Motors, they made hummers, Fords? Nope, Bradleys...Dodges, Nope Ambulances, Cummins. Allison? Nope..Best be buyin Nikes (Pearl Harbor) you be walkin....

Stupid IS ?

MrBillM - 5-6-2013 at 05:03 PM

Vag seems to be the guy who brought up WAR in relation to Utility Vehicles.

"............I assume you are referring to their use in killing and getting killed, which is a lot different than heading to Yreka over Black Butte Summit on Interstate 5 in a white out. In the latter case the intention is to come home without anyone dying There is far more utility in any number of other vehicles which are easier to control and STOP. These things were built for war. I guess they are good for that as long as the enemy doesn't know how to build an IED".

I was merely responding to the absurdity.

The Jeep was designed as a weapon of war in the same sense as the Haflinger/Pinzgauer.

WAR was the Mother of their Invention.

chuckie - 5-6-2013 at 05:09 PM

Or maybe a rancher that needed something to haul a hay wagon in a blizzard....????

Correcamino - 5-6-2013 at 06:53 PM

Ha ha! Nothing breeds arguments like comparing offroad equipment! To get back to the Unimog, I used to fantasize about having one of these Unimog campers, ever since I saw one Saline Valley, CA. But if you think it through it's more of a cool hobby than a truly effective tool to get to remote campsites and camp in luxury. Check out the blog of this Unimog owner doing a Baja trip:

http://www.billcaid.com/2011/BajaTrip20110226/Part3/Part3.ht...

He's got lots of other adventures on his site as well, several in Baja. But you can see that he has many of the problems mentioned here: really less capable in most ways than a good 4x4 truck or jeep, trouble with complex mechanicals that you'll never fix in MX, no spare parts, guzzles diesel, etc. Listen to this bitter complaint about the washboard going out to Gonzaga:

"The road from Mex 1 to Gonzaga truly sucked. While graded, it was heavily traveled and badly washborded. The entire group agreed that this was one of the worst segments that we suffered during the trip."

So he's no better off than the rest of us on lots of Baja roads. Also, If you DO get stuck, who the ***k is gonna pull you out? I'll stick with my Xterra, but it will never be as cool:

acadist - 5-6-2013 at 08:57 PM

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Originally posted by durrelllrobert

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Wow! I'm going to forward the link to a relative that services remote oil wells in Canada. I'm sure he would be interested. Can you provide (or U2U me) the approximate price?

If you have to ask you can't afford it :light:

Not sure exactly except 6 figures