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A French unimog ?

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  • #2
    cargo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,222 ✭✭✭cargo


    Can be expensive to work on if there's anything wrong with the gearbox/4x4 setup.

    Also it's petrol.


  • #3
    JohnBoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭JohnBoy


    says it's got a ford v8.

    do your research, maybe it's got more than just a ford engine. could have more ford bits, which could mean good parts availability from the states.


  • #4
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    Looks good and is Mil spec which are usually over-engineered to begin with. Would be very thirsty if used hard, but that price saving would pay for a lot of fuel. I doubt if it has the range of attatchments/service take-offs that a Mog would have but for forest haulage or carrying an implement on the deck it would be a good platform. I also doubt if you could lose money on it as a military collector wouyld always be a customer for it if you moved it on. I also doubt if it will be for sale for long at that money. If it has good tyres, the tyres and engine would bring that much.


  • #5
    O.A.P
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭O.A.P


    Not a lot of information about them on the net really and Pottler got what I have in mind for one straight away. Forestry work or if not an investment and some fun restoring it .
    From what I have learned since yesterday it has a 4.2 liter petrol ford engine putting out about 110 BHP, which is ridiculously inefficient.
    The transmission is still a mystery, 8 forward and 2 reverse with a difflock
    I think but if my french was better I'd be sure.
    I think they have air brakes because the pictures on line show what looks like an air tank (compressor) attached to the the chassy.
    Thats all I have really. The one on donedeal was the first I'd seen or heard of so I thought someone on here might have place for it, the price looked right.:confused::P


  • #6
    101sean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,884 ✭✭✭101sean


    It's an ex French Army SUMB, going rate in the UK where they are plentiful is £1500ish, there's another scruffier one on DD at the moment.

    They have a flathead Ford V8 although a load of refurbed ones with Renault diesels have been released recently, they go for a lot more. They are supposedly pretty reliable if basic, both of the MV comics did features and buyers guides, I no longer have copies though.

    SUMB stands for Simca Unic Marmon Boquet

    http://www.milweb.net/features/sumb.php


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