Gelandewagen Fur Die Sieg!

Bored middle-aged German guy. Merc G-Wagon. 19mo. road trip turns into 23yrs of travel.
800,000km. That's almost 500,000mi. Meet Gunther Holtorf and Otto the auto.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18910560

Simply amazing.

Amazing indeed. very cool...

@DUKEOFUNDERSTEER GWAGEN!!!!! Expect a punch the next time i see you!

How does one bankroll a 23 year trip?

In reply to Mitchell:

The article says he was an airline executive.

It's probably the only known example of a G-wagen being put to its intended use, instead of ferrying around trophy wives with more money than brain cells.

That's just past the break-in period for a GWagen.

I was in a GWagen on the Autobahn once and, while it was clearly not the preferred vehicle for the venue, it wasn't horrible either.

Awesome.

Fantastic

Wow.

incredible story

Wow. Deeply jealous.

FTMFW

Mitchell wrote: How does one bankroll a 23 year trip?

how do you finance any 23 years of retirement? the video says they the were frugal by buying local food to make and filtering their own water and sleeping in the truck, so they are down to fuel costs and shipping for bodies of water.

Almost cheating in that truck. In other parts of the world they're seen more like Land Cruisers or series Land Rovers. Quite a lot of them went to impoverished parts of Africa (UN vehicles, missions, mining companies, etc.) and probably every one brought down there is still in use.

I drove the G-wagon in the Swiss Alps a couple of months ago, it was fricking awesome.

But how expo rig with no winch?!

I really hope to be able to do something like that someday. My goal is to have my wife complain about my driving on every continent. I like the ones they sold before they became luxury cars. I used to walk past a gray market one when I was in school, a red two door with plaid seats. Pretty much everything looks better with plaid seats

Yeah, no plaid in the one I drove, more like quilted butter-yellow leather and carbon fibre trim.

A 300GD would be cool. I like the old Gs but you don't see many of them.