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| I was born in December 1963 in the Mercedes Benz factory Gaggenau/Germany. My official name is 404 115 033354,
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| of course nobody is using it during my daily life. My friends just call me Moggie. In march 1964 I've got a TLF 8
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| shelter on my back and was sent out in the world to help people fighting fires. First I went to Hamburg in the north of
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| Germany, to work for the Amt für zivilen Bevölkerungsschutz und Verteidigung (office of civil defense), which registred
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| me at the central vehicle registry on the 8th of September 1964.
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| The next 21 years I lived and worked in Hamburg. It was a quite life waiting for my first real operation. In the mid 80ties I began
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| to resume about my life so far and came to the conclusion that it would be best to move to another smaller city. I didn't like
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| the city life so I moved to a small idylic town called Eisenbach. Eisenbach is a district situated in the Blackforest.
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| From 17th September 1985 I worked in Bubenbach, Eisenbach, as a firefighter truck. Here in Bubenbach I had a wonderfull life.
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| I was really happy to help the nice people of Bubenbachs fire brigade to fight the occasional small fires. Therefore I got a very
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| thoroughly done maintenance and was allways in a state ready for action. Alltogether I had a easy life and a nice time during
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| my 18 years in Bubenbach until my retirement in July 2003.
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| During my working life I ran 14069 km (~8800 mi) and my pump had done 134 hours of hard work. I still wanted to see new
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| things and go adventuring, so I searched for a home were I would get the best maintenance and some love and of course
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| where I would get the chance to do some traveling all over the world. I heard of Frank Flicks BAT business in Gummerbach,
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| a small town in the heart of Germany, so I asked Frank for help finding a good new home for a Unimog like me.
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| Frank was glad to help an Unimog - but what a shame - he didn't like me to make the way from Bubenbach to Gummersbach
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| on my own wheels. I was put on a low-loader as if I were a wreck. Horrible! I'm really fit and don't need this kind of help.
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| However, on 31th of July I was put on this low-loader.
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| The stay at BAT trade was OK, but my new home was an oversea cargo container, so I did need some acclimation to the
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| dark container. Best of all was my new friend Iltis which slept in this Container, too. A Mog like me needs to run in the
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| fields and streets so I was looking forward to go to a firefighter exhibition in October where I should be presented people
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| interested in firefighting equipment from all over Europe. To make it short - I never went to this exhibition.
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| On the 1st of September the container doors were opened and I saw my new owners for the first time.
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| It was love on the first sight. I was their first Mog, so they studied my very carefully. Fortunatly they liked, what they saw
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| very much and adopted me. Prior to my move to the nice Münsterland I had to go to the TÜV on the 25th of September to get
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| a street license. After looking closely at me and picking in my belly with a screwdriver long enough - oughhh - I was deemed
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| fit for service and got my "health certificate"and an oldtimer certification. End of September I said goodbye to Iltis. He has
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| got a new companion, the green Unimog Doka which will be going to Mexico, now lives with him in the dark cargo container.
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| Yours Freyhaven
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| PS: If you like me please click on the pictures to view me in bigger size
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