There is a valve that puts positive pressure on the drivetrain, so water can’t get in there. Once it’s in four-wheel drive, it locks the axles and it’s pressurized so that water can’t get into the axle housings. The snorkel is also good for dust.Īll the gears are behind the axles. With the snorkel, a Unimog can go through water to the cab, which is three to four feet of water. Did you add that or was it original?ĭaniel: I added the snorkel. TCM: I see that your Unimog has a snorkel. Going uphill, it’s like a semi-truck.Ībove: 1987 Unimog u-1300l truck camper with a snorkel The fire truck is a turbo version as well. It goes about 55 miles per hour but, with overdrive, mine can go 65 miles per hour. Unimogs are not very fast, but they are very nimble. I paid $45,000 because my unit has overdrive. What can someone expect to pay for a Unimog?ĭaniel: If you buy one used, as I did, you can expect to pay around $40,000 depending on how many miles it has on it. I get about 12 miles per gallon with the camper, which is not bad at all. TCM: What kind of fuel mileage do you get with the Unimog?ĭaniel: It’s a 6-cylinder diesel. The RW1 models don’t get a lot of miles on them since they are just used for recovery. I have a RW1 version, or Unimog Rescue Wagon. The Unimog U1300L is essentially a 7.5-ton truck. It’s a four-wheel drive, diesel, long bed truck. TCM: What’s the year, make, and model of your Unimog?ĭaniel: It’s a 1987 Unimog U1300L. The flatbed conversion was done in the fall of 2015. So, I made a decision to turn the Unimog into a flatbed. It had low miles, a 12-ton winch, and a box on the back that I could probably convert for a truck camper. I found them on the web and drove by to see what the Unimogs cost. How did you get your Unimog?ĭaniel: In California, there is an importer called Expedition Imports. TCM: There aren’t exactly Unimog dealerships in the United States. After so many years, the rescue team will buy new Unimogs to get the latest technologies.
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There’s a box on the back with a generator and storage for recovery gear. My Unimog was originally used in Germany for rescue on the freeway. For example, Unimogs can be a tractor with four-wheel drive and fitted with snowplows and winches. They are made for different applications. It lets you use your truck for hauling or work during the week, and for camping on the weekend.Ībove: Daniel and his Unimog U1300L before it was turned into a flatbed truckĭaniel: An uncle of mine owned a Unimog which was developed after the war. Being from Europe where you don’t see cabover campers, I liked the concept. During the first few years after I moved, I went camping with a friend who had a truck and cabover camper. In the winter I used it to go skiing in the Austrian Alps. I used the Mercedes to travel to Greece three years in a row during summer vacations. When I was 18, I bought an ex-German Postal delivery truck, a Mercedes 407D and changed it into a camper. TCM: How did you get introduced to camping and truck campers?ĭaniel: As a teenager growing up in Germany, my family went tent camping in Italy and Yugoslavia near the Mediterranean. Some of his inspiration sparked right here in Truck Camper Magazine.īe careful folks, this stuff is contagious. What follows is Daniel’s rational and build story for this exceptional expedition vehicle. Even better, he documented his design and has already shared it with others looking to match a Unimog with a truck camper. Along the way he ran into a few design and clearance challenges, but his final rig is a true success. Making a Unimog truck camper rig is a custom project requiring intensive measurement and planning, fabricating capabilities, and the mechanical skills to make changes on the fly.Īs an engineer with a life-long history with Unimog vehicles, Daniel Bass set out to take a Unimog U1300L and turn it into a flatbed capable of accepting any flatbed truck camper model. Standing several feet taller than pickup trucks, and lacking a typical pickup bed, Unimogs are definitely not your standard pickup truck. Truck campers are designed for standard pickup-trucks. Unfortunately, matching a Unimog with a production truck camper is anything but natural. With all-wheel drive, a flexible frame, and ample ground clearance, it’s only natural that folks have matched the incredible off-road capabilities of Unimogs with the vigorous versatility of truck campers. Daniel Bass engineered and built a custom overland vehicle with a Unimog U1300L and a Four Wheel Camper Grandby pop-up truck camper.
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