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Introduction
« on: October 16, 2013, 09:35:18 am »
Hello All,
I am Rob, my wife Joan, we live in the city of Beira in Mozambique. We are new proud owners of a U1300l, which is currently at AV, having an RHD conversion, other repairs & additions, prior to shipping. As an old time diesel mechanic & being active in the motor trade, we have a reasonable amount of know how, which we intend to put to use in adding a camper body, currently awaiting the arrival of the vehicle. Our intention is to use the rig to tour our beautiful adopted country,  as we are avid ski-boat anglers, obviously with boat in tow. We opted for a Unimog due to the poor road conditions that can be experienced here.
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Re: Introduction
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2013, 09:50:15 am »
Hi

Sounds like you will be the target of much jealousy on the forum when you eventually get everything set up and running.

Would love to see pics of the finished machine on 'tour'.

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Re: Introduction
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2013, 03:28:49 pm »
Welcome to the forum, both of you. A Unimog and a boat... You've got both the toys that I hope to be able to purchase myself before I retire!

As Mick has already said - pictures of your tour would be great to see.
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« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2013, 04:30:03 pm »
welcome along guys :) nice to see were streching further around the world!! hope you enjoy the site and if you have questions or just want to show your mog off, feel free to post as much as you want :)

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« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2013, 07:08:48 pm »
Hello Rob and Joan, welcome to Unimog Club UK :)

sounds like youve got the job sorted! i took the helm of a friends yacht the other day, i now want a yacht!  :D maybe my own house should be my first priority  :-\

pics of the mog would be great, plus of the camper body build as well! :)

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« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2013, 09:49:33 pm »
Welcome from me too and what a small world one of my best friends lives in Moz. They own a dive lodge in Nampala.
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Re: Introduction
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2013, 05:33:39 am »
Welcome!

We are driving up to AV on the 26th to do some more work on the chassis and add a rook-rack and bullbar.

One day we hope to add the camper part so we can drive slowly back to Cape Town and naturally visit Zim.
Hope you guys have a great trip

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« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2013, 09:28:27 am »
Hi Gang,
Many thanks for the warm welcome, we'll post some pics as soon as we can figure out how to do so. Gerard, please check our Mog out when you visit AV on the 26th, it should be almost done by then, as we've never had a hand on it, it would be great for an opinion.
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