Car pics too cool not to share
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There are two shades of green: BRG, and ODG. The rest are poseurs! 
I can't even count the number BRG shades there are...
Ditto for ODG for that matter. I'd say "only the WW2 original, but there were several shades even then!
Before it became a Hollywood poodle hauler , The G-Wagen W-460 was pretty cool. Here's an 1984 .
Very cool, I'd say, though I'm torn between the long and short wheelbase. I'd take that one as it sits (maybe without the contents) even though it's carrying damage repair.
These tend to be rare in the part of the US I'm from, which made me wonder if they were actually marketed here back then. Assuming Wikipedia is to be believed, it seems they weren't...
I will take a painters word on body repair , but I don't see it . The earlier models had a weird front fender crease that later ones didn't have.
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Front passenger door, misaligned and the green is off slightly. Full body panel paint and replace.
Front passenger door, misaligned and the green is off slightly. Full body panel paint and replace.
Giving it the old car show eye , pass front door looks high , but rear pass door looks low . compared to the body line. LOL.
Wiki is correct. I remember the days of the grey market importer.
I've seen a few throughout the years in the Seattle area, but that's about it for around here.
Back when I was still a member of the Timber Tamers we put on a SUV Jamboree and101 Course over near Rick on the outskirts of Cle Elum.
One year we had a guy bring his $110k G Wagon on the condition we wouldn't let him get any damage. So we cut the brush on the 101 course in the campground way back and did some major brush trimming on the trails we knew he would be taking. On the last full day of the event we had a run for everyone up to one of the lakes in the area. All went great until he decided go rouge and turned off the main trail to follow a couple rigs up a tight trail we had not done any maintenance on.
When we asked him why he decided to take the ungroomed trail, he said because it looked fun. Well he had a point, it was a fun trail but..... Washington pinstriping now streaked down both sides of his G Wagon... He told us not to worry, "they'll take care of it". Evidently when you spend over 6 figures at a Mercedes dealership ever few years they tend go the extra mile to make sure your rig looks brand new no matter what you do to it...
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Back when I was still a member of the Timber Tamers we put on a SUV Jamboree and101 Course over near Rick on the outskirts of Cle Elum.
One year we had a guy bring his $110k G Wagon on the condition we wouldn't let him get any damage. So we cut the brush on the 101 course in the campground way back and did some major brush trimming on the trails we knew he would be taking. On the last full day of the event we had a run for everyone up to one of the lakes in the area. All went great until he decided go rouge and turned off the main trail to follow a couple rigs up a tight trail we had not done any maintenance on.
When we asked him why he decided to take the ungroomed trail, he said because it looked fun. Well he had a point, it was a fun trail but..... Washington pinstriping now streaked down both sides of his G Wagon... He told us not to worry, "they'll take care of it". Evidently when you spend over 6 figures at a Mercedes dealership ever few years they tend go the extra mile to make sure your rig looks brand new no matter what you do to it...
Hmmm. Did that happen to be whistlindiesel?
Uh no... he was still nuking his diapers at that time...
A guy down the street from me has two G wagons in his garage. Must have thought the wife needed one too.
Those are likely W463 (or newer?). At some point MB started officially marketing the G-Wagon in the US in later series. I've seen a fair number of them around here.
Those G wagons seem to be taking the "Gucci path" around here. I'm seeing them in very particular neighborhoods, sitting in driveways of known rentals. Very trendy, look-at-me bougie mobiles.
Here's one in a neighborhood I'm in and out of every few weeks. This dude has two G wagons now, and a white S class car. The real estate you see there is worth about $250K, so there's that. His life choices impress me.
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