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Harold Pietschmann - America
Harold is also known as an organizer of great offroad-tours round about the famouse Rubicon-Trail, where he uses his short 280 GE convertible, too.
George MacDougall - Argentinia
"Here is the pic of our recently acquired 300GD. We have not made very long trips yet but we are planning to as we get to know our vehicle. Our G is 1983 and was owned by the Argentinean Gendarmery (border police) and we bought it 7 months ago. Its previous owner have upgraded its original 240GD engine to a 300GD. The vehicle is a cabriolet and it had fitted a tailor made fiberglass hard top. These vehicles are very rare in Argentina."
Nathan Vujcich - Australia
The engine of Nathan's 280 GE - that was previously a 300 GD - will have a hard job, if it will try to be louder than his stereo equipment with it's 12 inch subwoofers.
Matthew Linden Copper - Australia
Matthew owns a really rare G, especially in Australia: a long 300 GD with soft top and folding-windscreen. It was one of three G's sold to the Australian army for testing. After that it was sold, and now he uses his G for geological fieldwork.
Steve Godfrey - Australia
Steve owns several offroaders, but the best for trips through Australia's outback is of course 300 GD which have 60mm longer springs and is fitted with 35.5" MTs. A snorkel is also build in so he don't have to worry if the water is deeper some times.
Jo De Witte - Belgium
In summer of '97 JO bought his dreamcar, a G 300 DT. Until now his G have traveled more than 145.000 km at trips through France or to the G-Club-Festival in Graz in 1999.
Thomas Gaardsø - Danmark
Thomas owns 3 Gs. A 300GD swb from 1981, a 300GD lwb build in 1987 and his 'newest' G is an 1980 240GD swb. This one is now being build up again.
Jean-Philippe Mathias - France
Jean Phillipe is the webmaster of the Homepage of the 'Club 4x4 MERCEDES Rhône-Alpes'. He have bought his short 300GD from 1994 two years ago.
http://www.multimania.com/jpmathias/
jpmathias@multimania.com
Gerhard Schneider - Germany
Gerhard's red G is a 230 GE swb which is very useable, especially during the wintermonthes in the Blackforrest.
Thorsten Holz - Germany
Thorsten's both Gs are not build for onroad-use. In 1999 he transformed an 1980 280GE into an 500GE. When he sold this G, he bought an already build up 300GE with 35" wheels, ARB-Bullbar, winch, bodylift and longer springs. Then he build in an 3.6 Brabus engine, a rollcage, tripmaster, additional fueltank and other useful Rally-equipment. In autumn 2001 he bought an additonal 230GE convertible and build it up within one month with a 5liter V8 with automatic-transmission, bodylift, Eibach-springs, Warn-winch and 285/75R16 MTs on 8x16" alloys. The V8-conversion have been done without expencive AMG-parts. Most parts where kept or build by themselfs.
Grammatis Ritzalis - Germany
"Hello everybody!!! Attached is a pict of our 'little' Baby - a 1999 G500 LWB. It is our 4th G. The first was an 300GD, the second had been a 350GD and the 3rd was a G500 Convertible (still in use by my wife). I would like to have contact to G-owners all over the world, because I'm planing trips trips to other countries with my wife. Maybe some new friends will be found by this way."
Philly - Germany
Philly is the proud owner of this (nearly) full equipped long 230GE since 1997. The G is mainly used for diving-trips where it have to pull a 1.5to-trailer.
Rolf Sturm - Germany
Rolf is using his G for trips to Scandinavia and would like to have contact to other G-drivers from that countries.
Frank Hembach - Germany
He owns two Gs, a long G 300 DT from 1999 and a '91 300 GE Convertible which is driven by his wife. His 3-year old daughter likes offroading in the G, too.
Uwe Schulz - Germany
Before Uwe bought a new G 300 DT in 2000 he had already owned a long 300 GD for 16 years. But the new will still be used for offroading and for pulling his caravan.
Michael Eckstein - Germany
Michael owns two Gs. The first is the green 240 GD which have even been used as a support-car on the Rally 'Paris-Dakar' in '98, and his second one is a pre-series 230G.
Norbert Burch - Germany
After many years of jeep-driving Norbert now have bought a 300GD Turbodiesel with automatic-transmission, winch, and longer springs and snorkel.
- Iceland
This 'Monster 300 GD' with additional turbo and air-cooler is driving on 38" tires through the snow-deserts of Iceland. It also has an air-compressor to deflate the tires after trips through high snow and many communications equipment.
Osso - Italy
Osso is owner of an 200GE (W463). These models where only sold in Italy.
Alessandro Zamolo - Italy
Before Alessandro bought this beautiful G 500 from 2000 he still have made some G-experiences with a 300GD which he have uses for seriouse offroading, too, and also the V8 will not only be used on the road.
Anthony Hage - Lebanon
One of the biggest G-Fans I know. Anthony and his brother own a real classic: a 1979 230 G long wheelbase. He also has his own homepage about the G and is the webmaster of Solyman Khattar's homepage, too.
Marco v.d. Hoeven - Netherlands
This long 300GD have been originally made for Italy and have been imported to the Netherlands in 1992. After that Marco have build it up again and also put BFG Mud Terrain's on it.
Arlette v.d. Weijden - Netherlands
The engine of Arlette's 300GD (former 230G) is an OM617a and he is very satisfied by the power of the turbocharged engine.
Torgei Aarak - Norway
Torgei's G was formerly an '84 280 GE. Now it is a 300 GD with the engine and automatic-transmission from the W463 series.
Hallgeir Sørnes - Norway
Hallgeir uses his G also for trips in snowy Norway.
Gunnar Dyregrov - Norway
The engine of Gunnar's long 300 GD is turbocharged by STT and have also an intercooler. He owns the G since 1986 and have traveled more than 270.000km until now.
Piotr Wlodarczyk - Poland
Nevertheless that the is not very popular in Poland because of its high price Piotr had bought one and is now using it on many Trophies.
Alan Hüsgen - South Africa
Alan's short G had former be an 230GE but now it has the engine and automatic-transmission of an 280SE. Alan has found an mailing-list for G-owners in South Africa which contains until now more than 100 members.
Michael Röser - South Africa
Michael have been send into the desert by his boss, because he is responsible for the controlling at an famous automobile manufacturer. So he can test his own 300GD from 1983 in the desert, too. The G is also added with an aircompressor, 2. battery, a winch which can be mounted on front and back and an GPs-system.
Michel Zimmermann - South Africa
This 240GD is build in 1981 but still in mind condition .Nevertheless it is still in heavy use by it owner which wouldn't give it away for anything in the world.
Fredrik Nilsson - Sweden
Fredrik is the proud owner of two Gs, a long 280GE which is now a 300GD with turbo and an 300GD Convertible Both Gs are used in offroad for example at the annual Sweden Offroad Trophy.
Peter Björklund - Sweden
Peter bougth a G-wagen last year and is very pleased with it. It is a 280 GE from 1986. He will convert it into a 300 GDT as soon he´ll get the engine from Gemany.
Bruno Emmisberger - Swiss
Bruno's G400 high above the 'Gotthard-Pass' where the big V8-G is a perfect buddy.
Ghassan N. Salem - United Arab Emirates
Ghassan is very proud of his G-wagen, for which he have waited for one year til he could purchase an affordable used car. His green G320 of 1998 is a fully equipped. He plans to use it for off-road fun trips over the boiling soft moving sand hills in the Arab Gulf desert.
If you own a G, too, feel free to send me a picture of you and your G.
Aim of these site is, to make it easier for G-drivers and fans to find other like-minded all over the world. So don't hesitate too long and send me an eMail.
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