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:shock: Extremely rare 3,400 mm wheelbase G290GDT double cab.
One of just 9 ever made with that bodywork!
And it's a Puch with HD axles!
Hi Jesus,
That is, actually, one of 12 Puch Super Gs we sold to West Sussex Fire & Rescue Services. They were bought in as four-door chassis cabs and the drop-side pick up body and lift-off GRP canopy were added by Automotive Technik Fabrications (ATF), a subsidiary of the then Automotive Technik Limited (ATL) Group.
Now of course, having gone through two changes of ownership, we are British Aerospace Systems Land Systems Pinzgauer Limited (phew!) and we no longer sell Gs, but manufacture Pinzgauer in all its many guises.
It was only the rear bodywork that was unique to West Sussex; they had one long wheelbase station wagon too, incidentally. We sold several four-door crew cab variants to other organisations, mainly fire & rescue.
The 3.4metre G with HD axles is fantastic off-road. Loads of ground clearance and stacks of low down torque from the stonking 2.9 turbo intercooled engine. Those vehicles also had a pto drive on the transfer case and an electronic hand throttle control.
They will be worth bidding for when the fire brigade eventually puts them up for disposal, but when that'll be is anybody's guess
Mike
Hi Jesus,
That is, actually, one of 12 Puch Super Gs we sold to West Sussex Fire & Rescue Services. They were bought in as four-door chassis cabs and the drop-side pick up body and lift-off GRP canopy were added by Automotive Technik Fabrications (ATF), a subsidiary of the then Automotive Technik Limited (ATL) Group.
Now of course, having gone through two changes of ownership, we are British Aerospace Systems Land Systems Pinzgauer Limited (phew!) and we no longer sell Gs, but manufacture Pinzgauer in all its many guises.
It was only the rear bodywork that was unique to West Sussex; they had one long wheelbase station wagon too, incidentally. We sold several four-door crew cab variants to other organisations, mainly fire & rescue.
The 3.4metre G with HD axles is fantastic off-road. Loads of ground clearance and stacks of low down torque from the stonking 2.9 turbo intercooled engine. Those vehicles also had a pto drive on the transfer case and an electronic hand throttle control.
They will be worth bidding for when the fire brigade eventually puts them up for disposal, but when that'll be is anybody's guess
Mike
Many thanks for the input Mike,
I always thought that the figures I had for chassis double cab GWagen production could not be right. Mi figure, incidentally, was taken from the book "The legend keeps on driving" which I always credited with having been bread on the official production figures to 2003.
In any event, a very rare and desireable G-Wagen....
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