mhiscox
Expedition Leader
CoffeeMog (née CamperMog) is still selling coffee in Seattle. She gets a fair amount of coverage on Twitter (#mogsnotmugs; clever, eh?) and the Internet. If you are in Seattle, check at http://www.motofishcoffee.com to see where she is now and will be in the future.
Anyway, I had someone e-mail me to ask if I'd sold here yet (yep, a mere 4.5 years ago), and in going to fetch a picture of her to include in the reply, I came across this YouTube video of her I'd never seen before. It shows CamperMog post-engine rebuild, pre-food stuff install. The guy talking is Dirk Rautenberg, a really talented Unimog mechanic who was in Sutherlin, Oregon but has since, I believe, gone back to Germany. Dirk rebuilt CamperMog's froze-up engine as a more practical (or, at least, more economical) alternative to installing Squeezer's spare OM352, and apparently did some additional work, including changing to a vertical exhaust (probably an excellent change given her environmentally-substandard cold starts).
And finding that then led, in the way of the internet, to find this pretty, freakin' cool video of cyclocross champion--so they say; I wouldn't know as my cyclocrossing days are behind me--Jeremy Powers driving the Mog on a pseudo-road trip to his Nationals competition. Check out the impressive production values, right down to Jeremy's CamperMog t-shirt, one which I intend certainly intend to purchase forthwith. (Not many 1977 trucks get their own t-shirt, you must admit.)
And then there's this short one, which perhaps more accurately portrays life in the slow lane with CamperMog:
Of all the many dozen vehicles I've owned, CamperMog seemed the one to most have a soul of its own. Should that be the case, I'm sure she pauses in the Seattle downtown traffic and thinks back to life on the railroad and her nineties' Sahara expeditions and her trips with me to the Oregon Outback six thousand miles from home and thinks, "What a long strange trip it's been."
Anyway, I had someone e-mail me to ask if I'd sold here yet (yep, a mere 4.5 years ago), and in going to fetch a picture of her to include in the reply, I came across this YouTube video of her I'd never seen before. It shows CamperMog post-engine rebuild, pre-food stuff install. The guy talking is Dirk Rautenberg, a really talented Unimog mechanic who was in Sutherlin, Oregon but has since, I believe, gone back to Germany. Dirk rebuilt CamperMog's froze-up engine as a more practical (or, at least, more economical) alternative to installing Squeezer's spare OM352, and apparently did some additional work, including changing to a vertical exhaust (probably an excellent change given her environmentally-substandard cold starts).
And finding that then led, in the way of the internet, to find this pretty, freakin' cool video of cyclocross champion--so they say; I wouldn't know as my cyclocrossing days are behind me--Jeremy Powers driving the Mog on a pseudo-road trip to his Nationals competition. Check out the impressive production values, right down to Jeremy's CamperMog t-shirt, one which I intend certainly intend to purchase forthwith. (Not many 1977 trucks get their own t-shirt, you must admit.)
And then there's this short one, which perhaps more accurately portrays life in the slow lane with CamperMog:
Of all the many dozen vehicles I've owned, CamperMog seemed the one to most have a soul of its own. Should that be the case, I'm sure she pauses in the Seattle downtown traffic and thinks back to life on the railroad and her nineties' Sahara expeditions and her trips with me to the Oregon Outback six thousand miles from home and thinks, "What a long strange trip it's been."
