I thought I would start my first post here with the details of a restoration myself and a friend of a 416 Soft top.

It was more of a clean up than a full restoration as mechanically it is in great shape with only 2000 hours on the engine.

The clean up took us 150hours each over one week to do.

The vehicle was ex belgium army and in need of some love.
Here is how it looked the day it arrived down here in Australia

Firstly we stripped it down as much as we could and sent the various parts of to be blasted and primed.

Tray is off

We backed up the 404 and slid the 416 tray onto that


The we set about fixing up some dents and giving the cab a spot of primer. We had already cleaned up the chassis ready for paint at that stage. As you can see we had oput one of the new tyres on where the spare was to see how it would look

Chassis Painted

Some pics of the Interior being cleaned up

The tray came back from the blasters and we decided to cut it down a bit.

Finally we were nearing the end..the painting started

Cab Finished - Just required Clear Coat

tray awaiting clear coat too..

and the finished product

Welcome to the forums and to the disease.

Well done on the restoration work! I really like the urban camouflage and the "oxenkopf" UNIMOG logo.

That's a very nice UNIMOG you've got there. Kudos to you for giving it a new lease on life.

A long breaker bar or a one inch air impact wrench should do the trick on the lug nuts. Remember to use antiseize and you won't run into that problem again.

-Sean P.