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RE: What the heck was that vehicle! (No LBC Content)

To: "'Steve Morris'" <smorris@en.com>, MG List <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: What the heck was that vehicle! (No LBC Content)
From: "Dodd, Kelvin" <doddk@mossmotors.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 16:08:47 -0800
Sounds like a Unimog.

        There are two for sale at a dealer that I pass every week.  One is a
military with canvas top, the other has what looks like an camper with a pop
up center.  Being an ex-Land Rover owner, I'm a sucker for these kind of
trucks.

Kelvin.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Morris [mailto:smorris@en.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 4:00 PM
> To: MG List
> Subject: OT: What the heck was that vehicle! (No LBC Content)
> 
> 
> Way off topic here, but this is the list with the most European auto 
> enthusiasts that I belong to, so I thought I'd ask here.
> 
> Coming home from work today, I passed going the other way one really 
> bizarre (for northern Ohio, at least) vehicle. It looked like 
> a military 
> version of the cartoon Scooby Do's Mystery Machine. Really! 
> It was about 
> the size of a VW Vanogen, or maybe shorter. Very high chassis 
> with large, 
> but narrow knobbys, 4WD, olive drab green, OD canvas top, 
> spare on the 
> tail gate, blunt, square nose, and no emblem that I could see 
> in passing. 
> I thought it might be some variation of the G-Wagen, but they 
> all have a 
> hood instead of blunt nosed, I think. Worst part was, that it 
> had some 
> yuppy mom driving it with a bunch of kids. Go get a minivan, 
> soccer mom!
> 
> Sorry, I can't help myself sometimes...
> Steve
> 
> Steve Morris     Avon, Ohio
> 1958 MGA 1500    Red/Black
> NAMGAR #5987     BuckAyes Ohio Chapter
> LoCo Brits       <mailto: MGA1500@mac.com>
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