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German demonstrated his famed car.
It was planned that the journey will last two years, but it was delayed because of the desire of spouses to visit new places. In 2010, the wife of Gunther died, but the older man continued the trip. Today he arrived in Minsk. Belarus remains the last country in the world where not visited the Mercedes. Now world tour has been completed. Gunter told the Onliner.by, car soon went to the museum Daimler, and demonstrated his famous car.
"The car was purchased in 1989 from an authorized dealer Mercedes. It is fully serial and is not ready for this kind of travel - began his story Gunther, handing the card. - Here you can see the country in which I have visited. Red line - a road on which drove the Mercedes. Only one Caribbean Bay turned out to visit 22 countries. Drove the entire territory of the former Soviet Union from Murmansk to Vladivostok and back ».
It is surprising, but in Belarus man still did not get. The map shows the last five countries that Gunther was planning to visit this year. And Belarus - the latest. Originally trip to our country was planned German in 2010. He then obtained a visa to cross the border but could not - have any problems with the Belarusian customs due to the importation of the car.
"In 2010, when I was going for the first time to call in your country, on the border stopped me and said that I could only get to Belarus without a car. This, of course, did not make sense, and I decided to postpone the visit to you "- with a smile says Gunter.
October 11th man will give his Mercedes Gelandewagen the museum Daimler. The machine will take the group chairman Dieter Zetsche. In Stuttgart Museum has prepared a separate room for this exhibit. For 25 years the vehicle has traveled 900,000 miles, visiting all over the world. He even got a name - Otto. This modification GD c 300 diesel engine, released in 1988. The machine has a "native" original chassis and engine. No serious damage during the trip was not. During a trip to Madagascar Gelandewagen crashed and overturned, so the car has replaced most of the body parts (all except the hood and front fenders).
Gunther says that in 25 years of travel, he never slept in the hotel and never had dinner in the restaurant. In Minsk, he stopped at a gas station, where he found a large parking lot for trucks. In his Gelandewagen has a gas cooker, and opened the back door, a German in a few minutes organized an impromptu kitchen. There is even a tool to protect the plate from the wind. Table where Gunther eat every day, was purchased in 1989. Chairs, apparently, a "young". There is a car and a bed that converts from the trunk to the front seats. Her elderly man sleeps 25 years. When he began his journey, he was 51 years old. In the car also has a hammock, which often appears in the photographs Otto on the Internet. Gunther and his wife lived near Munich. They have a son, who joined several times to travel to different locations.
"I have other than German citizenship citizenship in Argentina and Uruguay. I speak Spanish as their native language. Initially we were going to travel with his wife to the south of Africa and back. But we really liked the trip and we decided to go to Argentina, which is my second home. There have decided to linger in Latin America and went to Brazil and Mexico. A stone's throw from Mexico to the US. So it all started. Then take a boat in New Zealand. Thence to Australia and so on. D. As a result, the trip was delayed for 25 years. The following month, it's over. Four years ago, my wife died. She died at home. Cancer. But I continued the journey alone, "- says the man.
In the car, there are no navigation systems. The whole world Gunter traveled using only paper maps. Inside, the car is unfolded map of Minsk. Next - Road Atlas of Ukraine, Europe and Russia. In Gunther several passports with countless visas, including two Belarusian (one is a stamp of failure).
"Out of 900,000 kilometers, which I drove this car, about 200,000 have been out of the asphalt. Gelandewagen - great SUV, which never failed. Diesel engine works like the first day. Or maybe even better "- laughing Gunter, driving the car for a photo shoot at the site dealer Mercedes.
Many accessories are located on the roof of an SUV. Gunther often have to stand on the hood to get this or that subject. To the hood was not slippery in the rain, it pasted sheets nazhdachki. The same elements can be seen in the army modifications Gelandewagen.
Gunther Holtorf - a legendary figure among fans of car travel. Write about him many bloggers. The BBC did a great program about the legendary Otto. Every day hundreds of people enter the user name German to Google. 25-year journey, inspired many motorists coming to an end. But Gunther says that it has something to do: "I have a large number of hobbies. For example, I collect banknotes from different countries. Also, I have a bunch of different things from around the world. All this should be sorted for processing collections. All that I have collected over the last 25 years. When I get home, I'm certainly not going to sit with a beer at the TV ».
Here are some points travel Gunther:
Source: auto.onliner.by
"The car was purchased in 1989 from an authorized dealer Mercedes. It is fully serial and is not ready for this kind of travel - began his story Gunther, handing the card. - Here you can see the country in which I have visited. Red line - a road on which drove the Mercedes. Only one Caribbean Bay turned out to visit 22 countries. Drove the entire territory of the former Soviet Union from Murmansk to Vladivostok and back ».
It is surprising, but in Belarus man still did not get. The map shows the last five countries that Gunther was planning to visit this year. And Belarus - the latest. Originally trip to our country was planned German in 2010. He then obtained a visa to cross the border but could not - have any problems with the Belarusian customs due to the importation of the car.
"In 2010, when I was going for the first time to call in your country, on the border stopped me and said that I could only get to Belarus without a car. This, of course, did not make sense, and I decided to postpone the visit to you "- with a smile says Gunter.
October 11th man will give his Mercedes Gelandewagen the museum Daimler. The machine will take the group chairman Dieter Zetsche. In Stuttgart Museum has prepared a separate room for this exhibit. For 25 years the vehicle has traveled 900,000 miles, visiting all over the world. He even got a name - Otto. This modification GD c 300 diesel engine, released in 1988. The machine has a "native" original chassis and engine. No serious damage during the trip was not. During a trip to Madagascar Gelandewagen crashed and overturned, so the car has replaced most of the body parts (all except the hood and front fenders).
Gunther says that in 25 years of travel, he never slept in the hotel and never had dinner in the restaurant. In Minsk, he stopped at a gas station, where he found a large parking lot for trucks. In his Gelandewagen has a gas cooker, and opened the back door, a German in a few minutes organized an impromptu kitchen. There is even a tool to protect the plate from the wind. Table where Gunther eat every day, was purchased in 1989. Chairs, apparently, a "young". There is a car and a bed that converts from the trunk to the front seats. Her elderly man sleeps 25 years. When he began his journey, he was 51 years old. In the car also has a hammock, which often appears in the photographs Otto on the Internet. Gunther and his wife lived near Munich. They have a son, who joined several times to travel to different locations.
"I have other than German citizenship citizenship in Argentina and Uruguay. I speak Spanish as their native language. Initially we were going to travel with his wife to the south of Africa and back. But we really liked the trip and we decided to go to Argentina, which is my second home. There have decided to linger in Latin America and went to Brazil and Mexico. A stone's throw from Mexico to the US. So it all started. Then take a boat in New Zealand. Thence to Australia and so on. D. As a result, the trip was delayed for 25 years. The following month, it's over. Four years ago, my wife died. She died at home. Cancer. But I continued the journey alone, "- says the man.
In the car, there are no navigation systems. The whole world Gunter traveled using only paper maps. Inside, the car is unfolded map of Minsk. Next - Road Atlas of Ukraine, Europe and Russia. In Gunther several passports with countless visas, including two Belarusian (one is a stamp of failure).
"Out of 900,000 kilometers, which I drove this car, about 200,000 have been out of the asphalt. Gelandewagen - great SUV, which never failed. Diesel engine works like the first day. Or maybe even better "- laughing Gunter, driving the car for a photo shoot at the site dealer Mercedes.
Many accessories are located on the roof of an SUV. Gunther often have to stand on the hood to get this or that subject. To the hood was not slippery in the rain, it pasted sheets nazhdachki. The same elements can be seen in the army modifications Gelandewagen.
Gunther Holtorf - a legendary figure among fans of car travel. Write about him many bloggers. The BBC did a great program about the legendary Otto. Every day hundreds of people enter the user name German to Google. 25-year journey, inspired many motorists coming to an end. But Gunther says that it has something to do: "I have a large number of hobbies. For example, I collect banknotes from different countries. Also, I have a bunch of different things from around the world. All this should be sorted for processing collections. All that I have collected over the last 25 years. When I get home, I'm certainly not going to sit with a beer at the TV ».
Here are some points travel Gunther:
Source: auto.onliner.by
