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December 11th, 2011. In case you didn't get to see the video on this one... Chinese military truck shows off its all-terrain chops A pretty interesting truck, wonder who it's daddy was?:?

December 10th, 2011. Respectfully, I would trade the wife in before I altered an virtually new M1028! Sell the truck to someone who will take better care of it..because if you are off roading that truck you are going to damage it...mark my words. That truck is a close to pristine...

December 9th, 2011. Spicergear: Is the 408 a diesel or gas? It is interesting to see essentially a one piece windshield glass on a Unimog of that age, because the truck looks otherwise to be military in origin. My S404.114 has been burning a little oil when cold, I figure the original...

December 7th, 2011. I may be too late and with too little, but David Doyle a while back had a letter on here which stated from the Attorney General (US) to a company in Virginia that the only regulations any military vehicle had to meet was the original U.S. Government contract purchase...

November 29th, 2011. The gent's V-12 is about the equivalent of the engines and such that Journeymen machinists and blacksmiths used to make to qualify as a masterpiece. With CNC machinery and rapid prototyping, I would guess that it is easier today, but still a tour de force. There have...

November 29th, 2011. Not meaning any offense here, gents, but the British are the world's greatest or second greatest engineers, and the world's second lousiest constructors. Anyone who has owned an MG knows about Lucas Electric, the "Prince of Darkness", and I haven't seen anything past a...

November 28th, 2011. Very similar to the Mann & Hummel Zclone pre filters used on the Unimogs for the last 50 years.... Wonder were Cat got the idea? You do know that most true fording set ups pressureize the brake drums, axles, transfer case and arrange for the slopper valves and/or...

November 25th, 2011. I will hand it to the original poster, he REALLY likes to test the fording capabilities of the M151 to their limits. I'd be more worried about the driver drownding then the truck. Note the Deset Storm or tan M151, kind of an interesting choice for a M151. I would not have...

November 25th, 2011. NOW that we are all blowing turkey fumes after yesterday, I have hit on an odd idea in regards to Unimogs. Did you ever notice the decal of the little "Calvin" dude from Calvin and Hobbes whizzing on an auto maker's insignia, usually Chevy, Ford or more rarely Dodge? It...

November 24th, 2011. Permit me to offer my personal experience of hard versus soft top on the M35A2. It takes to men to install and remove the hard top, plus it is no warmer in the winter and much too warm in the summer, based on my use of the M35A2 "Saddam's Nightmare" in Northeast...

November 22nd, 2011. You have to love a man with deep pockets and a military truck that is not in the continental US boundaries! I put in for American Samoa and HAwaii a couple of times in the NPS, I suspect Uncle would have a coronary shipping a Unimog S404.114 and an M35A@+M105A2!:gimp...

November 17th, 2011. DJFREEMA: Thanks for posting the pictures of the old Mojave Road, pity I and my trucks are so far east, as it looks like a really good trail for a stock S404.114, though the way mines behaving in the city, an air pump and tire tube patching kit would be derigeur. Looks...

November 17th, 2011. Dear Chris, Mangus & Co.: I put in my subscription to the premium membership about two or three days ago, so what's it take to place a classified for my M35A2 and M105A2 that are looking for a new home down in Texas? I can figure no way to put in the ad, as the...

November 14th, 2011. Gentlemen: Before we wax too lyrical in the praise of good old British know how, look up the Historical Unimog films that Spicergear has posted elsewhere here in the Unimog forum. I doubt if you will catch any LR product moving either a 200 to 375 ton hot steel bottle...

:-PNovember 14th, 2011. Likely they either came from Fort Knox or Fort Campbell from the Patton Museyum, or were sent down from Aberdeen. There is a possibility that Aberdeen's collection will be going to Fort Lee,Va. in the round(s) of BRAC. I was in consideration for the Curator at the...

Unimog November 14th, 2011. Spicergear: I was somewhat familiar with the stills of some of the railroad operations of the Unimogs in Germany, and the NYCTA has on in NYC set up to rescue subway trains, but the 406/408 pulling a dozer on a trailer ought to quiet some folks...

November 13th, 2011. Gunfreak25 does make a point germaine to the discussion on the Unimog forum as to the utility of a deuce versus a Unimog, both vehicles were designed with gears and small engines. Horsepower is really only needed for speed, but if an engine has enough torque and...

November 12th, 2011 Spicergear: Looks like our friend up above is suffering Unimog envy. He cuts down the S404.114s without realizing that the S's were to the UHN's what the Model "A" is to all other Fords since then, the grandparent. My S will do pretty much everything the UHN will, except...

November 11th, 2011. Boys, I really enjoyed that one of the Mog trying to get up the bank.... Did any of our anti-Mog folks figure out yet that: 1) You don't go up a bank backward in an unladen Mog?; 2) You don't try to back up a bank in an unladen Mog with R4 agricultural tires when the...

November 11th, 2011. Since I don't necessarily have a cat in this fight, perhaps a little tail twisting is in order. I would beg to point out that a Unimog S404.114 was rated at a gross weight of 11,000LBS with load, and can pull up to 21,000 on a four wheel trailer...not fast, but it will...