PLEASE NOTE: This lot is offered with an MOT certificate until September 2024.

Registration No: D780 CDC
Chassis No: WDB46033327045915
MOT: September 2024

• Desirable UK-supplied, right-hand-drive example
• Benefits from a recent full respray in its attractive original colour
• Current registered ownership since 2014 and six former keepers
• Fitted with a new gearbox in 2014

The Mercedes-Benz G-Class or G-Wagon, short for Geländewagen (cross-country vehicle), is characterised by its boxy styling and body-on-frame construction. It uses three fully locking differentials, one of the few vehicles to have such a feature. The G-Class is still in production and is one of the longest produced Mercedes-Benz in Daimler's history with a span of 34 years. It was developed as a military vehicle from a suggestion by the Shah of Iran and offered as a civilian version in 1979. The first major refinements were introduced in 1981, including an automatic transmission, air conditioning, an auxiliary fuel tank, protective headlamp grilles and a cable winch. Fuel injection became available in 1982 when the 230GE was introduced in Turin, along with more comfortable and supportive front seats, auxiliary heating, wider tyres and wheel arches. For 1985, differential locks, central door locking and a tachometer became standard.

Manufactured in 1986, the G-Wagon offered is a desirable UK-supplied, right-hand drive example having been registered new in the United Kingdom on the 1^st of August that year. A 300GD specification example, it is fitted with the venerable OM603 series naturally aspirated 3.0-litre diesel engine (which developed 111bhp when new) allied to the five-speed manual transmission. ‘D780 CDC’ is finished in its original and attractive colour of Moosgruen Metallic paintwork, having recently benefitted from receiving a full respray. Showing a recorded mileage of c.(1)20,000 miles, the Mercedes has resided in current registered ownership since 2014 and had six former keepers.

Benefitting from a new gearbox in 2014 at the cost of some £2,700, more recently (in 2019) the G-Wagon has received new wheels and tyres, as well as two new wings at the cost of £680. As well as the aforementioned recent respray, in 2022 ‘D780 CDC’ was provided £2,500 worth of expenditure that included a new fuel pump and lines, overhauled fuel injectors, new battery and servicing. Offered with previous MOT certificates, invoices for work completed and a current V5C document, the Mercedes-Benz is offered with an MOT certificate until September 2024.

For more information, please contact:
Andreas Hicks
andreas.hicks@handh.co.uk
07943584762