25th Anniversary Treffen in Merklingen, Germany
Last weekend the 25th Anniversary Treffen was held in Merklingen, Germany, organized by the German Mercedes Geländewagen Club E.V.
The GWOA group was made up of Bill Moss (Off-road prepared 280 GE SWB), Jonathan and Phillip Cowan (in Jonathan’s G55 LWB RHD), Roly Iddison, Ian Watson and Mark (in Roly’s W463 300 GD LWB Auto), Howard Green, Gary and myself (in Howard’s alpine white G290 GD Turbodiesel SWB RHD) and Max Macarthur and Rakesh, who opted for flying to Stuttgart and turned up in a rented E200K. In addition, David Watkins joined the party in his brand-new G55 AMG LWB LHD which he had just picked up from the Geländewagen Centrum in Munich. 12 members and 5 Gwagens in total.
This was the biggest-ever GWagen gathering with close to 300 GWagens. We'll put the story and pics in an upcoming special edition of the GWIZZ.
Cheers
Last weekend the 25th Anniversary Treffen was held in Merklingen, Germany, organized by the German Mercedes Geländewagen Club E.V.
The GWOA group was made up of Bill Moss (Off-road prepared 280 GE SWB), Jonathan and Phillip Cowan (in Jonathan’s G55 LWB RHD), Roly Iddison, Ian Watson and Mark (in Roly’s W463 300 GD LWB Auto), Howard Green, Gary and myself (in Howard’s alpine white G290 GD Turbodiesel SWB RHD) and Max Macarthur and Rakesh, who opted for flying to Stuttgart and turned up in a rented E200K. In addition, David Watkins joined the party in his brand-new G55 AMG LWB LHD which he had just picked up from the Geländewagen Centrum in Munich. 12 members and 5 Gwagens in total.
This was the biggest-ever GWagen gathering with close to 300 GWagens. We'll put the story and pics in an upcoming special edition of the GWIZZ.
Cheers
It was nice to see you there and meet you in personal. Due to the number of Gwagens (officially counted at 279- but they didn't count yours because you parked outside :-))
it was way to less time to talk to all of you. See you next time, maybe in the UK ??
oh, I forgot : Some picture can be seen here...
http://www.gwagen.de/trips/g_treffen2004/index.html
and here
http://www.weikamp.info/g-club/index.htm
a video..http://mitglied.lycos.de/crazyparatborn/
Wow! amazing pics! and so quick! I have not had time yet to recover from the journey and download the 99 pics I made but these will surely be in my website fairly soon.
You are right, for such a short visit we did not have any time to talk to you but we had a wonderful time. We definitely need to organize something for next time.
Cheers
Wew already left on Sunday Lunch time. It was only a 7 hours trip back to Cologne. So plenty of time to relay.
Agreed, next time we'll set up some "side meetings" :lol:
Hi Klaus
Good to meet you . I should have stayed and talked to you longer because we didn't get on the test track because we ran out of time.
We left at 7.oo am and made the 4.45 ferry at Calais.
See you next time
Roly
I am currently in the process of having the story and the pics of the visit in my website, but in the meantime I thought I'd show this to you....
Among the activities enjoyed by the participants to the meeting was to board one of the three latest specs G-Wagens prepared for that purpose, to be driven flat out around the track by Mercedes’ own factory test drivers.
The G-Wagens were a silver “standard†G55 LWB, a black 270 CDI LWB and a dark blue G55 Kompressor. The track has an impressive U-shaped section with a banked 180-degree corner and we patiently waited at a distance of the outside of the last corner. After a while, we heard the unmistakably shriek of the G55K coming from the distance and shortly after the enormous blue mass of the car and all of its 476 horses appeared perched at the top of the bank, taking the corner at 160 kph with its passengers literally flattened out by the G-forces generated by the car’s kinetic energy. The other two cars followed, if only at a marginally lower pace and less high up in the bank. I managed to take the first two pictures below.... the third one is from one of the websites listed by Klaus.
Cheers
and heer are the Videos..
http://www.uwereimann.de/foren/gtreffen/G-bergen.wmv
it was planned to land the G on the side, but they G didn't know that
http://www.uwereimann.de/foren/gtreffen/g_esp_steilkurve.wmv
test ESP
http://www.uwereimann.de/foren/gtreffen/g55amgk.wmv
or drive with the AMG 55K
mfg
Klaus
Yummy!!! Thanks, Klaus.
Cheers
Great weekend. Good trucks, good company, what else could you ask for, Guinness i suppose :lol: ..
Thanks for the drive Roly..
The story and part of the pics are already in my website....
Read the complete story:
http://mercedesgwagen.galeon.com/enlaces1009601.html
Pics at:
http://mercedesgwagen.galeon.com/amigos864958.html
http://mercedesgwagen.galeon.com/amigos864970.html
http://mercedesgwagen.galeon.com/amigos879089.html
http://mercedesgwagen.galeon.com/amigos879673.html
Cheers,
The story and part of the pics are already in my website....
Read the complete story:
http://mercedesgwagen.galeon.com/enlaces1009601.html
nice story.
See you next time :-)
The only Bad thing : You may remember the Rangerover that was on the meeting. On Sunday the driver - after everybody had gone- took a testdrive on the terrain. She rolled to the side and hurt herself, so she must be taken to hospital. The Range is scrap but I heard that she is doing fine again.
Klaus
The only Bad thing : You may remember the Rangerover that was on the meeting. On Sunday the driver - after everybody had gone- took a testdrive on the terrain. She rolled to the side and hurt herself, so she must be taken to hospital. The Range is scrap but I heard that she is doing fine again.
Klaus
Sorry to hear about the lady of the Rangie. I hope she'll get better soon and that she replaces that piece of ?@#~*?# with a proper G-Wagen as soon as she gets back on the road.
Anyway, (I think) I've finished uploading Merklingen stuff in my website. Pictures of the trip to germany and the activities of the Treffen are right here:
http://mercedesgwagen.galeon.com/mascotas1010096.html
Cheers/Tchuss
Just a small correction to the report.
The lady driver of the Range Rover did not need hospital treatment, she was treated on the spot by a UK member who carried a comprehensive first aid kit,for minor cuts bruises and mild shock. She took the drive to re-establish her nerve after doing exactly the same thing to her LR 110 a year before.
The accident,which I wittnessed, took place on the long steep climb up from the lake and was caused primarily by a classic ecceeding the capability of both vehicle & driver, added to that advice given by a even less experienced person.
Having failed to complete the climb and come to a stop she was advised to attempt a reverse down, I would have advised a safer pull over the top, on reversing she lost her nerve lost control and the rest as they say was history.
The vehicle was comprehensivley written off and was uninsured, bad luck for the lady. but credit for having a go.
An old paratrooper moto applies here I think
Its better to be down wishing you were up than up wishing you were down.
Bill Moss
Just a small correction to the report.
The lady driver of the Range Rover did not need hospital treatment, she was treated on the spot by a UK member who carried a comprehensive first aid kit,for minor cuts bruises and mild shock. She took the drive to re-establish her nerve after doing exactly the same thing to her LR 110 a year before........
Bill Moss
Later on they braught her to Hospital just to be sure. She is back again an says thank you ...look here. http://www.viermalvier.de/forum_php/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=Rest&Number=119606&Forum=All_Forums&Words=118&Match=Username&Searchpage=0&Limit=25&Old=allposts&Main=117810&Search=true#Post119606
look for KIMO, that is her nickname on the German Board.
RGDS
Klaus
More pictures of the Merklingen meeting:
http://www.pinkys4x4.de
http://www.weikamp.info/g-club/index.htm
http://www.busfreunde.de/read.php?f=2&i=94676&t=94676
http://gclubev.de/treffen2004/fotos.html
Cheers,
Now that I have access to a big server, I have decided to publish the pictures that I made in the trip to Merklingen in full and in high resolution.
This is only an example. If you´d like to see the full series, click here:
http://foro.g-aventura.com/album_showpage.php?pic_id=137
and click "siguiente" at the top right corner of the picture to see the next one.
Enjoy!
Wow!
Thanks for putting all those photos on, they are fantastic!
Yolandi
All pictures now here: http://picasaweb.google.com/mortinson3/Merklingen
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oh, I forgot : Some picture can be seen here...
http://www.gwagen.de/trips/g_treffen2004/index.html
and here
http://www.weikamp.info/g-club/index.htm
a video..http://mitglied.lycos.de/crazyparatborn/
Wow! amazing pics! and so quick! I have not had time yet to recover from the journey and download the 99 pics I made but these will surely be in my website fairly soon.
You are right, for such a short visit we did not have any time to talk to you but we had a wonderful time. We definitely need to organize something for next time.
Cheers