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1. Unimog with a Mercedes M123

Wednesday, 03 August 2016 Content / engineswapdepot.com / Unimog with a Mercedes M123

Unimog with a Mercedes M123 | Our friend Dan Woods stopped by CX Off-Road in Paraguay to talk to owner Javier about his 1959 Unimog 404. Javier built the Unimog to compete in rally racing such as the Desafio Cordillera (Cordillera Challenge) ...
... with the shop’s other Unimog, a tan stock 1974 406 model. They chose Unimogs over a modified truck because of their strength from the factory. The dark 1959 404 originally came with a 2.2 L Mercedes M180 inline-six which produced around ...

2. Build-Threads Garage: Site Preparation & Shed Delivery

Saturday, 02 August 2014 Content / build-threads.com / Build-Threads Garage: Site Preparation & Shed Delivery

... me on my return home from work one evening… (bar chairs not installed yet) Then a week (or two) later, this happened… Unfortunately the truck was too big to get down my narrow driveway (damn old houses!), so he had to crane everything ...
... on the deck to keep it out of the weather, but after a while I realised that 70sqm of shed was probably too much weight for the poor thing, so the longest parts were put on the lawn, using some wood to keep it off the ground, then covered with ...

3. 1985 Hino housetruck

Wednesday, 04 December 2013 Content / build-threads.com / 1985 Hino housetruck

1985 Hino housetruck | Time to change gears again, it’s been a while since we’ve had something that isn’t a car/bike/garage to soak our eyeballs in. A little while back, Alex submitted his 1985 Hino truck to me. But this isn’t ...
... back, Alex submitted his 1985 Hino truck to me. But this isn’t just any truck. While it might have started out as a regular flat-bed hauler, Alex and his partner spent many a day and night converting it into a bespoke wood cladded home ...