[VAC] Re: Boondocker Heaven

[Wayne <wayne2@xxxxxxxx>]

I was at MOMA in Feb and took a *lot* of pictures of The Maximog and 
the trailer and have been meaning to get them up on the web. The 
Unimog and trailer are totally over the top. The trailer is a palace.

Bran Ferren designed it and Unicat, a German company that builds 
expedition Unimogs for exploration, camping, etc. built it. Bran 
Ferren used to lead the Imagineering Group at Disney.

He's also pals with Nathan Myrvold, the billionaire ex-CTO of 
Microsoft. Apparently, Bran and Nathan like to go out and dig for 
dinosaur fossils and stuff like that and then dine like gourmets at 
night. I don't know about Bran but I know that Nathan is known as a 
gourmet. The Maximog will certainly enable them to do these two 
things quite well.

The Maximog project was reported to have cost $1.5M. I assume that 
this truck was allowed entry into the US through some DOT crash-test 
waiver combined with the fact that they are using an already EPA 
approved engine instead of the stock Mercedes engine that is found in 
Unimogs.

If you are interested in Unimogs you'll want to join the unimog 
mailing list @ topica. There you'll find a whole lot of mog lovers, 
most of whom are driving around in 30+ year old 404 Unimogs that are 
ex-military surplus from Europe.