Everything in this car is built to military standards and is designed to withstand a mild nuclear explosion.
Due to its very high age, maintenance is immense, but all you have to do is to overhaul the original 1958 parts.
All spare parts are easily available.
Parts are of unbelievable quality, even though they are half a century old and used.
Extremely loud, drafty and uncomfortable. At cruise speed, conversation is no longer possible.
Fuel consumption is quite unbelievable. Most of the energy content in the fuel is used to generate high noise.
On road performance is terrible, but great fun with good hearing protection, off road performance is something else. This is THE best off road vehicle ever built! Suspension and transmission, and differential locking is designed in the 40´s and nothing comes close even today.
Cabin has no insulation at all. Radiator pressure tank is used for heating. Too warm in good weather and too cold in bad weather.
Can drive easily over a 2 meter deep high current glacier river at full speed!
I owned the 1964 unimog Radio Box with small gas motor, would not go faster than 60 mph on freeway in SoCal.. parts were hard to get, but around on internet... Went wheelin twice... Everyone stopped me in amazement, wondering what it was... This is a Mercedes..? true off-roaders know that this is the REAL Hummer...
Had to sell it at a loss... horrible gas mileage, but the entertainment value was huge.!
Note: A Comments RSS Feed 
is available. New comments appear in the Members Area before the main site