dieselcruiserhead
16 Years on ExPo. Whoa!!
Very cool looking Mog, best of luck with the sale. My financee would absolutely love this truck as well, too bad we would have to pull some $$ out of the house as well to afford it. Thanks, Andre
Can't help with the parking place, but . . . the truck carries 141 gallons of diesel, so the range is huge. Everyone quite logically wants to know the fuel economy, and I don't have a very good answer. With tanks this big, it's not like you often top them off and fuel frothing also makes accurate measurements difficult. My experience is that I probably get 10 mpg in freeway cruising. I also know that the German seller of the truck, when I asked him, gave an authoritative-sounding "20-25 liters per 100 kilometers." That's about 9.5 to 11.5 mpg, which matches my estimate. So figure a range of something over 1300 miles.Justin wrote:
Very nice! Out of curiosity what is the milage like/ range. Also the AC unit you describe going into the roof hatch with the generator. Can that be used while driving. Wife wanted to know if it had AC. Now if I could just find a place to park it!!
Thanks for posting that link, Gary. Sigi and Lisa did a great job of finding this one-of-a-kind vehicle and getting it into top shape. They also get high praise for answering all of my questions; virtually all those FAQ's are from me.Gary wrote:
Here is a writeup from classic unimog on the truck. Lots of pix. http://classicunimogs.com/unimog_416doka_camper.html
Yikes! My bad, I guess.I'd be a bit more polite about those who looked at the Camper Mog.!
Just to prevent confusion, Camper Mog is about as fast as the average 416, with a top speed of 55 mph. And the current asking price is $40K and maybe a bit less if you don't need all of the equipment. As for the fact that "the economy is down and it's been for sale for two years and that should tell me something," I'm not sure quite what it tells me, except that even in the best of times the market for weird-duck thirty-year-old one-off custom-built off-pavement motorhomes is pretty freakin' small . . . which I kinda already knew. :sombrero:There's a lot to weigh up especially with a max speed of SLOW. Economy down and wanting $44,000. Been for sale for two years now that should tell you something!
A valuable question, I think, because Camper Mog is done differently from many. Lots of campers use a flexible bellows between cab and cabin, but sometimes it's hard to keep the bellows in place and, besides, with the big passthrough on Camper Mog, the bellows would be really big and expensive. Instead, the rear of the cab and the front of the cabin each have a flange around the passthrough that extends about six inches, but the flange on the cab is a little smaller in height and width than the one on the cabin (or it could be vice-versa; can't remember for sure and it's not here to check). The smaller flange fits inside the bigger flange with enough clearance that the two can twist independently, but the gap is small enough that water can't leak in. (And there's a bit of weatherstripping involved, too.) This seems a clever approach and it's proven a trouble-free way to do itHi Mike,
How is the camper attached to the frame and to the cab? It looks like there is not much clearance between the cab and the camper for them to move independent(ly) from each other.
Yep, more than any other truck, a Unimog chassis is designed to flex, so if you attached anything rigid to it, there'd be problems. It's not like on, say, a Japanese cabover, where there can be a debate on when and how a pivoting subframe should be used. On a Mog, the frame will twist substantially.I sort of "get" the typical Unimog bed mounting system that allows the truck frame to flex while the bed remains rigid. Is Camper Mog similarly endowed?
Thanks, Esmi