If yesterday’s lovely and green 280SLC was all neat and tidy, today’s 1983 G-Wagen is nothing like that. And since someone’s pried it off, there’s not even a Mercedes star on the front grille to act as a unifying feature on the two vehicles.
The long-wheelbase, five-door truck is finished in safety yellow, and really stands out on the Helsinki sidestreet. Compared to the usual 2000-something Peugeot wagons you see, it’s positively Unimogian.
Lovely patina, isn’t it? The Mercedes has had its share of welding in its day, and rust spots pepper the flanks. It’s difficult to say if some of the fixes on the paintwork are due to rust or crash damage, but generally the idea seems to be to keep the Merc on the road whatever necessary.
The bumpers have been replaced with steel girders just to make sure.
Even if the European infrastructure were to crumble in the coming decades and we’d all fall victim to general mayhem and possible zombie attack, the G-wagen will surely withstand anything that gets at it. Even rust has a hard time gnawing it.
[Images: Copyright 2013 Hooniverse/Antti Kautonen]
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