this is the one.....!
Was posted earlier but here it is again
http://www.classicdriver.com/uk/magazine/3300.asp?id=12779%20
i would love one of those, be great if i had a farm just for the fun!
how many people here want that unimog guys job?!
Well back in must be '69 someone wanted to buy a 406 in Scotland .. and there was only one in the country (bought secondhand from England). So German Unimog demo driver turns up at the family farm.. and drives off out of the first gate over the ridge without so much as a walk around to demo it to potential customer (so family story goes..) ... well while playing around doing this later you realise that the you slid down on the front crash plate doing a front wheel stand for most of the 25' drop in a soft top 'mog.. :shock:
So there was a bloke doing it.. and he was confident!
you lost me....
same?!
I understood perfectly......................I think?
Regards,
Mike
So did I, 'cos I do it with Pinzgauers.... or rather did until BAE shut us down! B*stards!
Actually, it does get boring eventually.....;)
but what a way to do so! :P
tclynes wanted the man's job = Unimog demo driver? = man in story?
406 is U900 Unimog, the round cab version with 5.7l straight 6 diesel from 1963-88? (became 407 at the end) which is between the modern square cab U1000 and the old military 404 mogs and in this case with more gear levers than you could shake a stick at (cascade with crawl option gives 24 forward 14 backward gears :lol: ) Weighs about 3.3 tons and would give the new mini mog a very messy nose on most things except visibility.
"without so much as a walk around" ..most folk at least walk up to the edge to look down before driving over if they have never even seen the place from Adam..
"slid down on the front crash plate" .. well G's and Unimogs have a front crash plate in front/underneath engine.. if you go down a very steep hill forwards on a Unimog which has about 65% or more weigh on the front axle (more with a nice Werner winch) .. you end up doing a front end wheelie with the rear wheels right up in the air and the crash plate/front bumper being your other point of contact to the ground .. . but if you lock the front diff/keep moving you hopefully do not spin around the front wheels :shock:
Mud clearer?
ahhh now it makes much more sense.
but did he make it down ok and more to the point - did the family buy it?
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