Luxurious 6×6 Beast From Stuttgart

Mercedes-Benz Zetros

Here’s one that showed up on the German version of Yahoo! Autos about a year back, and it’s gorgeous. Based on the Mercedes-Benz Zetros 2733A 6×6 chassis, these luxury motorhomes were shipped to wealthy customers in Ulan Bator, the capitol of Mongolia, a place where this type of vehicle can really shine. The camper body was built by the German company Hartmann, based in Alsfeld, with interior work by another firm, Hünerkopf in Neukirchen. The final price for all this off-road luxury is approximately €800,000 (or around $1,050,000).

Mercedes-Benz Zetros

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Categories: Class A - Full Size, Hartmann Spezialkarosserien Gmbh, Klaus Hünerkopf Neukirchen, Mercedes-Benz | Leave a comment

Monster 4×4 Airstream Motorhome

Classic Airstream Motorhome

Years ago I owned a 1977 Argosy 28 foot motorhome, it was kind of a beater, but I loved it. If you’re unfamiliar with Argosy, it’s the Chevy to Airstream’s Cadillac. Argosy motorhomes were almost identical to the Airstreams of the same vintage, but sporting tan paint instead of raw aluminum, and with a few more steel bits where the Airstreams were completely aluminum, and of course, the paint

First time i saw about motor homes was in https://offgridspot.com/  which it made me love them since the first sight, they have the best RVs and guides for campers. Anyway, I have a real soft spot for the old Argosy’s and Airstreams, particularly the classic Airstream motorhomes, but they’re definitely not go-anywhere vehicles. They’re low to the ground with long overhangs, and strictly limited to cruising the pavement, at least as much as possible.

Classic Airstream on MAN KAT 4x4 Chassis

German off-road mod shop Custom Manufacture saw this limitation as a challenge, and decided to build the most amazing classic Airstream motorhome ever created, placing the lightweight aluminum fuselage on a tall, tough, 4×4 MAN KAT chassis. The results are simply too amazing to describe, an unstoppable beast of a motorhome, and now it’s a diesel pusher to boot! Find more mobile homes on this website.

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Categories: Airstream, Class A - Full Size, Custom, MAN | Leave a comment

Argh… It’s NOT a garbage truck!

 

When I thought about putting this blog together, I knew this would be my first post. I’m wrong, it’s my second. Anyway, this photo drives me crazy. No, nothing about the truck drives me crazy, I absolutely adore the truck. What drives me crazy is all of the so-called ‘journalists’ who insist on calling this amazing piece of engineering a garbage truck, or a dump truck. Have these people ever actually seen a garbage truck? If you troll this photo you’ll find dozens of blogs propagating this myth (and if you look in the comments you’ll see that yours truly has posted corrections more than a few times). Argh.

Anyway, this truck is beautiful, and it’s not a garbage truck dammit! It’s an older Unicat based on a MAN chassis.

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Categories: Class A - Full Size, Unicat | 5 Comments

Wothahellizat… the original inspiration

Wothahellizat

Years ago I ran across photos of this monstrous, custom created motorhome online, and fell in love. I don’t know if it’s the idea of freedom, or the idea of bring it all with you, or maybe even the small part of me that wants a back up plan if, as Harry Dean Stanton says in Repo Man, the bad shit comes down. Anyway, I finally decided to make a place where I can collect more about these wonderful beasts, and here it is.

Wothahellizat

In the meantime, click below for more photos of Rob Gray’s amazing Wothahellizat, and prepare to be amazed.

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