Spudboy's Dutch/German Jaunt. 110's; 101's; Series; Expedition vehs and even a UniMog

[spudboy]

Went for a bit of a trip last year around Holland and Germany to see a couple of friends (who both have Land Rovers) and took a few photos of the Landies I saw along the way, so I thought I'd post them up for interest.

The year before I'd left my motorbike with some friends in Amsterdam, and they needed their shed space back again, so that seemed like a good excuse to go and visit again.

Norbert & Ruth drove their 110 all the way from Holland to Aust (via Iran/Pakistan/India) and we met them in Adelaide and they stayed for a couple of weeks at the farm. This is them back in Amsterdam with their 200TDI 110 (Mrs Spud in the middle):
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachments/general-chat/44912d1332420774-spudboys-dutch-german-jaunt-110s-101s-series-expedition-vehs-even-unimog-norbertruth.jpg

And this is me out and about on the bike I went to shift:
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachments/general-chat/44913d1332420796-spudboys-dutch-german-jaunt-110s-101s-series-expedition-vehs-even-unimog-bike.jpg
Still on South Australian rego plates!!

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachments/general-chat/44914d1332420815-spudboys-dutch-german-jaunt-110s-101s-series-expedition-vehs-even-unimog-bikedd.jpg

I had to get insurance for it for 3 weeks, and because it was an Australian rego'd bike, it cost EU300 for the 'green slip' (about $400+) which is more than I'd pay for a year back here. Cheaper than not being insured in the event of a crash though.

[spudboy]

The first day there we were having a coffee in central Amsterdam, and this came around the corner:
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachments/general-chat/44915d1332420951-spudboys-dutch-german-jaunt-110s-101s-series-expedition-vehs-even-unimog-expedmorocco5.jpg

As he was going very slowly I waved him down for a chat and by chance he was parking about 50m up the road, so we got to look at his 110 up close.
Very nicely fitted out. He had just come back from a few weeks in Morocco.

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachments/general-chat/44916d1332420973-spudboys-dutch-german-jaunt-110s-101s-series-expedition-vehs-even-unimog-expedmorocco4.jpg

You can't really see it well here, but above the canvas canopy he had an alloy door he could pull down to 'theft-proof' the back of the canopy when he left it. Very clever.
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachments/general-chat/44917d1332420988-spudboys-dutch-german-jaunt-110s-101s-series-expedition-vehs-even-unimog-expedmorocco3.jpg

The padlocks at the back were for locking the alloy rear door when it was down:
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachments/general-chat/44918d1332421004-spudboys-dutch-german-jaunt-110s-101s-series-expedition-vehs-even-unimog-expedmorocco2.jpg

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachments/general-chat/44919d1332421019-spudboys-dutch-german-jaunt-110s-101s-series-expedition-vehs-even-unimog-expedmorocco1.jpg

[spudboy]

A few days later we caught up with Don & Jenn who had just got back to Amsterdam afterdriving all the way from Holland to Australia, then across to South Africa and all the way back to Europe again in their 110.

Luckily (for me - not so much for Mrs Spud) he was off to a "Land Rover Sortout" the next day only an hour or so from Amsterdam, so of course we had to tag along. Lots of 2nd hand stuff for all sorts of Landies. Saw a lot of 101's which are pretty uncommon out here, and even a trailer of military trailers.

This is his 110 which went all the way from Holland to Aust and then back again. He was trying to sell it, as it was not so easy to get around the small streets of Amsterdam in such a big vehicle:

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachments/general-chat/44920d1332421308-spudboys-dutch-german-jaunt-110s-101s-series-expedition-vehs-even-unimog-daviddonbonnet.jpg

Line of Landies in the carpark (from visitors - not exhibitors):
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachments/general-chat/44921d1332421327-spudboys-dutch-german-jaunt-110s-101s-series-expedition-vehs-even-unimog-lineoflandies.jpg

All sorts of junk for sale/swap:
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachments/general-chat/44922d1332421347-spudboys-dutch-german-jaunt-110s-101s-series-expedition-vehs-even-unimog-110bitspieces.jpg

Rapier trailers?
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachments/general-chat/44923d1332421367-spudboys-dutch-german-jaunt-110s-101s-series-expedition-vehs-even-unimog-militarytrailers.jpg

A very clean refurbished 300TDI part way through being re-built:
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachments/general-chat/44924d1332421383-spudboys-dutch-german-jaunt-110s-101s-series-expedition-vehs-even-unimog-refurbed300tdi.jpg

[spudboy]

Some of the 101's:

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachments/general-chat/44925d1332421705-spudboys-dutch-german-jaunt-110s-101s-series-expedition-vehs-even-unimog-101.jpg

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachments/general-chat/44926d1332421722-spudboys-dutch-german-jaunt-110s-101s-series-expedition-vehs-even-unimog-101_a.jpg

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachments/general-chat/44927d1332421738-spudboys-dutch-german-jaunt-110s-101s-series-expedition-vehs-even-unimog-101amboconv.jpg

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachments/general-chat/44928d1332421755-spudboys-dutch-german-jaunt-110s-101s-series-expedition-vehs-even-unimog-101b.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

[spudboy]

They also had a section where you could take your vehicle through a bit of a trials area, which was a great hit with the punters.

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachments/general-chat/44930d1332421938-spudboys-dutch-german-jaunt-110s-101s-series-expedition-vehs-even-unimog-seriesiitrialling.jpg

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachments/general-chat/44931d1332421954-spudboys-dutch-german-jaunt-110s-101s-series-expedition-vehs-even-unimog-seriesiiirialling2.jpg

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachments/general-chat/44932d1332421970-spudboys-dutch-german-jaunt-110s-101s-series-expedition-vehs-even-unimog-seriesiii.jpg

Mrs Spud found an interesting Disco camper conversion. She was generally a good sport about being dragged around cold wet paddocks looking at LR things :)

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachments/general-chat/44933d1332421989-spudboys-dutch-german-jaunt-110s-101s-series-expedition-vehs-even-unimog-discocamper.jpg

[spudboy]

A few more:

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachments/general-chat/44934d1332422246-spudboys-dutch-german-jaunt-110s-101s-series-expedition-vehs-even-unimog-desertseries.jpg

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachments/general-chat/44935d1332422265-spudboys-dutch-german-jaunt-110s-101s-series-expedition-vehs-even-unimog-seriesambo.jpg

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachments/general-chat/44936d1332422286-spudboys-dutch-german-jaunt-110s-101s-series-expedition-vehs-even-unimog-camel110.jpg

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachments/general-chat/44937d1332422308-spudboys-dutch-german-jaunt-110s-101s-series-expedition-vehs-even-unimog-90hugewinch.jpg

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachments/general-chat/44938d1332422325-spudboys-dutch-german-jaunt-110s-101s-series-expedition-vehs-even-unimog-110trailer.jpg

[spudboy]

We saw a few UniMogs whilst driving around, but never seemed to have my camera set to go. This is the only one I got a photo of, somewhere in Berlin. Looked very expensive!

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachments/general-chat/44940d1332422513-spudboys-dutch-german-jaunt-110s-101s-series-expedition-vehs-even-unimog-unimog2.jpg

I thought there'd be a lot more around, given we were in Germany....

Can anyone explain what these signs on their bridges mean:
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/
Obviously something to do with weights or speeds or something for the military, but I couldn't crack the code even after going past 10 or 15 of them.

[spudboy]

That's about it from the Land Rover side of things. After East Berlin we motored off to a small Polish village where Mrs Spud's ancestors had been "evicted" by the King (He was Catholic and they were Lutheran.... so they took a boat to Adelaide to escape persecution) and then on to Auschwitz. Go there if you get a chance. Not exactly an enjoyable visit but sobering and horrifying and very interesting.

That's all for now - Cheers
David

[LWB123]

Can anyone explain what these signs on their bridges mean:
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachments/general-chat/44941d1332423375-spudboys-dutch-german-jaunt-110s-101s-series-expedition-vehs-even-unimog-deufranl_2010-197.jpg
Obviously something to do with weights or speeds or something for the military, but I couldn't crack the code even after going past 10 or 15 of them.

Taking a guess - tanks or military vehicles, undivided road lanes 50km, single lane same speed. Trucks undivided road lanes 50km, single lane 100km.......

Cheers,

[Jojo]

Mate,
you should have come for a cuppa! You could even have taken pics of my trucks. Next time, maybe?
As for the signs, they show the weight classes permitted for military vehicles when using a bridge or some side roads, one sign for tracked vehicles and the other one for vehicles with wheels, obviously. Any military vehicle will have their respective weight class marked somewhere, a yellow spot with a number on. If that number is higher than the one shown on the sign, the vehicle must not cross the bridge or use that particular stretch of road.

[spudboy]

Hey Jojo - sounds like I should have, but from your profile I can only see you are 'north of the Queensland' or something like that, so whereabouts are you actually?

[101RRS]

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachments/general-chat/44929d1332421776-spudboys-dutch-german-jaunt-110s-101s-series-expedition-vehs-even-unimog-101c.jpg

What is it??

Garry

[spudboy]

It's not my speciality at all - but I think it was a Volvo 303..... or something like that.

Feel free to correct if this is a load of tosh.

[superquag]

HMm, Think you're correct, - maybe a Volvo C303 or Laplander.. might be the same thing...:eek:

Volvo C303 offroad extreme truck in deep water 4x4 TGB11 - YouTube

or this one....

Volvo Laplander extreme offroad, near crash - YouTube

[Jojo]

It's not my speciality at all - but I think it was a Volvo 303......


Correct (it's a C303, to be precise ;) )...

[101RRS]

That second video shows both the strengths and weaknesses of the forward control design, particularly when portals are involved.

The tippy - fall over issue is worse in a Haflinger and Pinzgauer and less of an issue in a 101 but the 101 not having portals has a lower C of G.

Garry

[Gary S11]

I dunno my haflinger only fell over once, ok, point taken ...Gary

[Duke4]

[QUOTE=spudboy;1650806]We saw a few UniMogs whilst driving around, but never seemed to have my camera set to go. This is the only one I got a photo of, somewhere in Berlin. Looked very expensive!

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

What's the junk on the back for?
It looks like a ghost buster machine

[Marshall]

[QUOTE=spudboy;1650806]We saw a few UniMogs whilst driving around, but never seemed to have my camera set to go. This is the only one I got a photo of, somewhere in Berlin. Looked very expensive!

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachments/general-chat/44939d1332422496-spudboys-dutch-german-jaunt-110s-101s-series-expedition-vehs-even-unimog-unimog1.jpg

What's the junk on the back for?
It looks like a ghost buster machine

Pick on the back, looks like a winch / crane on top to maybe lift a street grate? and a pump? maybe a sewerage collection thingyamemog?

[Jojo]

What's the junk on the back for?
It looks like a ghost buster machine

That's a BSR truck (BSR = the Berlin council waste removal authority) for cleaning the roads and gutters.

[isuzu110]

Correct (it's a C303, to be precise ;) )...

A mate here in Brisbane owned a Volvo C304 that had previously been owned by Karl Kruszelnicki. A rather quirky and gutless beast (the Volvo that is).

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/09/1130.jpg