john_g_kearney Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 As operated by Autohaus L Bogner in Oberammergau in the mid-1980s. Can one say that the soft-top cab means that it is presumably ex-military? John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosrec Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Looks like standard 404 mog as used in the thousands by many countries milatry. Home made crane fitted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_g_kearney Posted August 17, 2012 Author Share Posted August 17, 2012 Many thanks, John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnhughes Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 64,000 soft top 404s were sold to various military customers between 1957 and 1975 with about 5,000 hard top cabs sold to civilian users in the same period. Most of the hard tops went to the german Fire brigades. the photo looks like a standard 404 troop carrier as sold to the german, belgian, french and many other armies with a new rear body. see mine below the vast majority of the german troop carriers were cast from military service between 1978 and 1985 with only the specialist hard bodied radio wagons, ambulances etc kept on to the mid 90's. this would be about the right time to make a cheap recovery wagon :-) j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_g_kearney Posted August 24, 2012 Author Share Posted August 24, 2012 Many thanks, John. Your 404 is looking particularly splendid in your photograph. There are several modern Unimogs in the Leeds area used by tree surgeons, but I don't recall seeing many older examples at MV rallies. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnhughes Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 (edited) There are plenty of old mogs about, some as offroad toys, display queens or working in forestry/Agriculture. Mine has discrete front and rear demountable winches and off road tyres for serious use. note the intentional articulation and chassis/body twist in the attached photo. this means they really can go anywhere!!! Heres mine deep in mud doing some foresty work dragging out trees on bald NATO tyres with no problem. its amazing what good gearing, cross axle diff locks and portal axles will do. Can you spot the winch mounts? She regularly goes to tractor and MIL shows once the appropriate tyres and hood etc are on :cool2: j Edited August 29, 2012 by johnhughes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_g_kearney Posted August 30, 2012 Author Share Posted August 30, 2012 I like the Series II as well, John. Yours also? Is your Unimog ex BAOR, or do you just like Deep Bronze Green? John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 ?..... Mine has discrete front and rear demountable winches ...."Can you spot the winch mounts?.... Very neat bit of engineering! Scheming something similar myself (not Mog). Are the winches electric? (difficult to tell from photo). I'm guessing the winch subframe is alloy? Do you use the same winch for front and rear, i.e. move it to whichever position needed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnhughes Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 (edited) The Rover 8 is another of mine rebuilt from scrap; but she was busy in Londonderry in 1969; The mog mil history is unknown but may be french and she is in DBG because origional Bundeswehr green applied to all military 404's isn't waterproof (bad in wet NI) and the german army tried DBG on some vehicles before they moved to the flechtarn camo. So i can model her as British Berlin Brigade or Bundeswehr with a couple of small mods depending on how i feel. The winch is a uprated 24v Superwinch X9 I built with wireless remote control (and wired handset), heavy duty solenoids and plasma rope, mounted on a lightweight but design proven galvanised carrier with Anderson quick release connections for power. It is mounted on the vehicle using pins on simple bracketry attached to the main chassis members; which make a very discrete mount; the rear is 2 holes drilled in the bumperettes; on which a plate is bolted when needed; on which the winch is mounted; the ring mounted on the hitch is used for pulley use and chaining trees on when in "extraction mode" and the whole thing can be removed in minutes so the hitch can be used. It works very well and looks 'right' though I have only really needed it once to recover the mog as she is so good off road; I should point out I was "dared" to drive the ground even though we knew a selection of Landrovers had just been winched out, she did get further than the Landrovers and was easier to extract!!! j Edited August 30, 2012 by johnhughes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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