Date:         Mon, 6 Mar 2000 16:01:46 -0800
Reply-To:     harald_nancy <harald_nancy@EARTHLINK.NET>
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From:         harald_nancy <harald_nancy@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      Re: say your syncro camper isn't quiiiiite the 4x4 off-road
              camper you'd wanted??? :)
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4x4 fever can be pretty contagious, but ooh so costly.
The modern Unimogs are real status symbols.
Nice toys for millionaires.
But if one really needs something like that,
why not get a used mitsu fuso 4x4.
Put a nice used camper shell on the back, and you got a real economog.
Even makes a great freeway runner. Imagine a 4x4 with:
235 hp turbo intercooled diesel, 5 speed tranny, 2 speed high low transfer
case, and a limited slip differential.
And what I find most important, one can still sit up front,
just like in the vanagon or VW LT.
I never could figure out why they don't make any camper conversions
of those here in the U.S.
Check it out:
http://www.camperworld.com.au/images/offroad.jpg

Harald
90 westy

Hermann wrote:
>  Two years ago while camping in snow at the North Rim/ Grand Canyon I
spoke
> with a Belgian traveljournalist driving a similar looking  off-road
camper
> on a Unimog basis. He said that he,his wife and son had been traveling
the
> world for four years, crossed seven deserts, and were on their way to
Tierra
> del Fuego. Their truck  was a white 4x4 Diesel Unimog long-wheel-base
with a
> custom made slide-out camping unit, and a Kawasaki dirtbike attached to a
> derrick in the rear. When asked how much this cozy vehicle cost him he
said:
> several Ferraris and a Porsche. Humbled, I returned to my freezing cold
> 5000$ Westy.
>
> Hermann de Boer
> 87 GL Westy