What
can I write about my experience with a Magirus-Deutz ??
First
of all >> what type of truck is it ?? Anybody knows ??
It’s
a Magirus truck with a Deutz motor built 1963 , 4wheel-drive, the motor
is a 4cylinder in line , on the camp we had build a gasoline-tank which
we placed in the lenght of the truck from the cabin to the poop , you can
see on the camppics that we built-in a second floor so we had space to
hide luggage and water > 20 x 20ltr. waterjerrycans and 2000liter gasoil
.
Perfect
truck no doubt about that , I loved that truck , sometimes I had to go
so steep in the fat mud and in second/HighGearing accelerator all down
,. the whole thing started to tremble and we drove up , no problem , we
never got stuck , in 1990 we left Nairobi/Kenya to drive to Rotterdam/Holland
10.000km.........the only thing was.........the motor was not strong enough
, and in Niger where it’s real hot and never rains....... a piece of in
inletvalve broke off by the extreme heat and I bought a new Deutz valve
in Agadez , in 3 days , there are several Magirus-Deutz trucks in Africa.
This truck always felt very solid and I should go again with a Magirus-Deutz
to Africa , it’s so full of beauty......