Unimog Club UK

It is with a heavy heart, and massive amounts of frustration that I tentatively put up for sale my Unimog 404.

The only reason is that HMRC are about to send me a huge tax bill. I will need to sell the Unimog, the spare parts, and loose the barn in which it is kept just to get a start on paying her dearfest governments HMRC back a fraction of the bill.

Firstly, I will attach some photos with my username on them, but the photos will need to be taken in the barn, as Im stole the batteries from it to move a truck elsewhere.

A short description of the vehicel is below

started as a rusty 2 door, converted to 4 door, using a later 1964 cab. it has good tyres on it, converted to LPG using 'gotpropane' system, so its totally dependant on LPG, it runs fantastically on this, has all of its 82HP, starts on the button. runs nice, will max out at 60MPH and run all day long.

It has a 6 foot sqaure bed on the back made from 50x25 RHS and scaffold boards, Ive had two tonne in the back on it.

it has a tubular frame to fit a roof to, this is as far as I have got, and currently run it with a piece of old canvas as a 'bikini top'

Ive owned it seven years, was planning on keeping it and continuously working on it.

Its a blast to drive round, peiple wave at you.

tax free
MOT except - its registered correctly as a historic truck so no issues with agri DVLA things

It needs a few things doing, I guess it depends on what you want from it. better to come and view it, I will get some batteried for it soon, so It can be taken out and driven. Ive not used it on the road for a while, as I'm busy with work, and took on a rusty Pajero as a distraction.


theres loads I could say about it, but probably better to ask me a question or better still come and view.

I'm needing to sell it, plus a load of other bits to help pay the HMRC back but it doesn't mean I will take a silly price. they are difficult to value but I figure is probably owes me around £5k so offers somewhere in that region would interest me.

If your local to Romsey I guess I could deliver - once payment is secured, or if you are any further I would stick it on a low loader. - especially if its your first time Unimog ownership. Ive used it to drive to my brothers place near Portsmouth on a round trip done two or three times in one day, with about a ton in each time, and it was fine.

It needs to be filled up at  an LPG pump only. Im lucky I have one within a mile or so. It also has a FLT hose connector if you want to run it off fork lift bottles instead.

HI,

Not sure where you are , But  I have some doors, I might even have a seat somewhere, I know there is a frame around too.

condition is sketchy, assume they will need some work.

I'm Based in southampton, but regularly travel all over the UK with work.

I think out of the bits I've got, I would only sell the one of the doors, the other stuff can go with it for free - does that make sense?

regards David

I am  slowly building up my confidence with driving a little further each time I go out.

Making a trip to by Brothers place this coming weekend to pull out some logs from the woods, and get rid of some rotten stumps. It will be my first motorway trip its only about 30 miles to his place, mostly flat but I do need to do a stretch on the M27 from junction 2 to junction 7 which should be 'fun'

I drove down the main A road from Salisbury to Romsey the other day and it ran great, I actually caught up with traffic rather than holding it up, which was nice. - got the truck up to top speed too!

I have a low mileage engine (17k)  from a 1964 404. bought as a spare from a running truck that was being converted to diesel. my engine seems fine so this is taking up room in the barn.

been dry stored since removal about 4 years ago. It turns over, I have had the rocker cover off, and it looks like new in there.

has some parts missing, but I will include them in the sale. the only things that are not on it and not included is the distributer and generator although I do have them in bits. You can have with them if needed.

I run mine on a 'got propane' LPG kit, so no need for a lot of the bits I have gathered over the years.

I have loads of other parts, carbs, body parts, exhausts too.

based just outside Romsey Hampshire.













£250 collected.

Hi,

I thought I had better introduce myself.

I bought a 1959 Unimog 404 about 4 years ago, it was a non runner, rusty and was due to be stripped for its axles by the existing owner (a 4x4 competition vehicle builder), It had a very rusty cab, unknown engine state, crusty **** tyres, a home brew fuel tank dumping fuel into the top of the carb. Various animals and birds were calling it home.

I had no reason to purchase it, and no way of explaining to my wife why I had bought it either.

well over the odd weekend, during the course of 4 years I have got this far.....

from this....



mid way...







to this....







still have lots and lots to do.

It runs on a GOTpropane LPG kit (runs perfectly)

I'm adding a set of doors to make it easier to take passengers on pay and play days, a set of roll hoops to attach seat belts to, and form some sort of basic weather top, a scaffold board rear bed, with wooden rail sides in a 40's truck inspired way. I plan to have it as a weekend off-road toy, it will see some use logging and pulling trees at my brothers farm.

I just got it road ready (not finished) and drove it round the local roads over the last few weekends, getting used to driving it, and seeing what other things needed doing. unfortunately the radiator I made temporary repairs to decided to pop under the higher pressure, I didn't mind as I had a new replacement on the shelf, but it happened to be the wrong type, and doesn't fit, so its back off the road, with its radiator out, and me trying to find a good value replacement.

I would like to find out about its military history, but don't know where it came from, if anyone has a way of finding that out I would be really interested - being a '59 model It has seen its share of action, It would be nice to put it in the build manual I am planning.

I hope you like it so far.

Regards David