16.000 km overland adventure in a Volvo C304/TGB13 6x6
We drove our ex-army 1975 Volvo TGB13 through 17 countries.
Just shy of 16.000 km and we met so many wonderful people, saw a lot of great nature - and tested the Volvos abilities both in mud, snow and sand!
We drove from Denmark through Europe, to Northern Africa, on to Greece and the Balkans.
Please bear in mind that it was an extended camping trip, not a hardcore trail competition - this is 3500 kg of motorhome with a kitchen sink, not a trailrig ;-)
See more of our travels, the car and the build at our blog: www.tgb13.raredog.dk
- and sponsor our future trips by buying some of our cool t-shirts here: www.raredog.dk ;-)
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Chris Zabriskie
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Great to see a young couple following their dreams. Careers have a bad habit of delaying your dreams until you are too old or too tied down.
I agree :-)
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Wonderful adventure in the best Volvo!
Thanks for sharing, I did a 20000km trip on my first trip but was plan much longer, all africa to south but have to return back after an accident in Egypt.
When I saw the camels at 28:00, I was half expecting one to detonate after that mention of 7 million landmines haha! Absolutely incredible journey in such a cool and unique machine!
thanks for sharing this amazing video
I got a Volvo TGB11....the best little tiny compact Offroader you can get....nice video....
Amazing journey! is a dream to someday do this and collect rocks along the way, well made vid enjoyed it alot thank you for sharing!
Well don! Looks like so much fun!
Briliant , thanks for sharing
Amazing truck!
Me gusta mucho muy divertido! Los felicito!!
Just noticed as I'm watching a beautiful C304 that I am the 304th like! I wish these were more available in Canada, they seem ideal for our diverse seasons and terrain.
I think they are well suited for Canada, as long as you stay off the expressways ;-)
Volvo for Life 👍🏻
You two always amaze me how you found some country roads or even true offroard in every country and what nice vistas you got to.
Actually we drove to Loch Ness in Scotland 2 years ago - and didn't find any country roads or offroad at all for 5000kms :-)
One of my dreams is make a travel like this one.
Would be interesting to see your setup inside.
超级棒的自驾旅行。
Allegrissimi......
From Thailand
What a wonderful trip, abandoned roads and off-road experience. Could you shed some insight on route planning, and how to find those connected roads ? Are you using some old military or hiking maps, or guessing from satellite maps ?
Hi Tom Actually we didn't do any route planning! Our totally stock Garmin GPS has a strange way of leading us into the wilderness, haven't figured out why it always suggest the most rural and damaged roads, but it is fun (unless we are using it in our daily driver!) But remember that the video is edited, so we also drove A LOT of paved roads :-)
Reading your description reminded me of two separate incidents when trusting my Garmin nearly caused some serious problems. Once in Norway it recommended a wooden bridge hardly safe for pedestrians and once a gravel road crossing a railway. In both cases I would have seriously damaged my Jeep and got stuck.
Wow .. Spain and snow at around 08:00 .. it still looks like even 6x6 might use some snow chains, at least on one axel for safer trip. I also thought that it might be better to trip in group, then 09:47 hit me with that stuck driver, who was probably caught by rough weather, as no one sane would drive in regular car through that snowy abandoned road. At least the road seemed to me a bit abandoned.
You are right - it was very abandoned and he could have been there for days I think! We also got caught by suprise, all the snow fell in a couple of hours!
Hvilken klasse kørekort skal man have for at køre sådan en maskine. fed bil og god video.
Det er kl. B - almindelig bil 🙂 og tak 🙂
I love this vehicle, I wonder where you got it from and how much? I'd love to get one imported to the UK one day....
Thank you 🙂 It was bought in Denmark, the first owner bought it at an army auction in Sweden. Maybe your best chance would to look at mobile.de or blocker.se 🙂 you can find a lot of info on terrangbil.net but most of it is Swedish 🙂
Good video. Nice driving. (Maybe when you were sick you had coronavirus? who knows.)
I doubt - we haven't ever been first movers on anything ;-)
when is your next adventure? 👍😊
Does your Volvo still has its petrol engine? It sounds as a diesel when you are underneath it. Petrol will be very expensive as these trucks go up to 30-40 litres/100 km roughly.
It has been swapped to a Mercedes Benz 3 litre, 6 cylinder inline diesel :-) 12L/100km
@@tth0313 Thats the best you can do.
DO YOU KNOW ANYONE THAT HAS A Volvo TGB 1314 C304 6×6 FOR SALE? THANK YOU I WILL SHIP TO USA IF THE SELLER IS IN EUROPE. THANKS
I just have a question. Isn't it a bit expensive to travel in,in terms of fuel consumption?
The Volvo uses 12L/100km or 8 km/l - so it is a bit thirsty yes :-) But this trip, for 2 persons, all included (vaccines, ferry tickets, food, fuel, souvenirs and so on) was less than 6000 US$ for 3 months, the biggest problem was that we had no income and still had expenses back home :-)
what diesel motor are you running i have a tgb13 also looking to do a swap
Mercedes OM603 (non turbo) - redline is 5200 rpm, so it retains it top speed, but it is slow! :-) You can see more details on our blog: tgb13.raredog.dk/category/category0/
@@tth0313 SO IM GOING WITH THE 606 TURBO IM GEARING TO 5:15 IN THE AXLES AND RUNNING 37 INCH TIRES. I LOOK FORWARD TO TRAVELING THE WORLD. IM IN THE USA SO I PLAN TO EXPORE IT FIRST. DO YOU PLAN TO TRAVEL IN THE USA?
Hej. De 5 punkteringer i havde, var de mere på de 4 bagerste hjul end på forhjulene ? En Dansker i Sverige
Ja pudsigt nok? - indtil denne her tur havde vi kørt omkring 35.000 km på de dæk uden punktering og vores følgesvende havde samme dæk i samme størrelse og punkterede aldrig... Én af punkteringerne (den første) virkede dog noget planlagt af 3 mand i en Marokansk by, men det var svært at bevise da der ikke længere var noget i dækket andet end hul og de ville have penge for at hjælpe...
@@tth0313 Tak for svar. Jeg er ved at bygge på et TGB 20 chassis ( 6X6 VolToy) En af de mange ændringer jeg laver er at øge afstnaden mellem de to bagaksler til 1,15m. Derfor var jeg interesseret i om der evt var sammenhæng, med punkteringerne. KOmmer i til Helsingborg er velkommen. Jeg elsker når der kommer overland biler på besøg. Langt de fleste gode mennesker møder jeg på vejen. At rejse er at leve og lære.
@@MrProject350 Det skal vi huske, det er altid sjovt at snakke med ligesindede :-)
how did the volvo handle the warmer temps?
Fine, no problems at all in the desert - but we drowe on a soft beach where we had to let it cool down a few times, as the engine worked very hard.
Why didn't you chain up your tires?
Did not have any chains ☺ don't think the stock chains fit these tires...
I need to see this vehicle! Where are you based?
Denmark - your are welcome to come by :-)
48:11 33 times were we offered hash! I like that statistic.
I guess that's because a TGB13 looks somewhat similar to a VW hippie-van :-D
How many times did she say *never* again?
Never ;-)
This trip is like 10 000Eur in fuel cost :D ?
we used 2199 liters of diesel, but luckily it was cheap in africa :-)
hello good I am looking for a volvo 6x6 to buy if someone knows of one for sale write me thank you very much greetings
what do you think about the car?
I love it - and still have it :-)
Well, your wife must love you. Like motorbikes, the most fun is in the driving, not being the passenger. Also, as a rule, ladies like proper toilets. So, I'd be curious to know if she would choose this if you didn't.
My wife is a special breed: she has been a soldier, have a firefighter education, she has Scuba certificate and have been parachuting, she is trained in martial arts (and is good looking :-) - so she can handle herself and the lack of toilets - and I am a lucky guy :-)
@@tth0313 You are indeed. Have fun.
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39:04 trynna get the up-skirt view.
38:20 because parking like an asshole isn’t just for the middle class.
Would be 8000 euro’s in fuel if done today…
3782 euro in todays prices (2199 liters)- but actually less, as fuel is cheaper in Africa :-)
@@tth0313 thats quite the achievement. My tgb runs 1 liter for 4 km’s. Gas in the Netherlands is around 2 eur a liter. How did you get such a great gas milage?
nice trip... but it seems your girlfriend is not happy, she seems to rarely joke, interact with you, and share smile to the audience... try to communicate and socialized with local people...
37:54 So shortly after eating pork you were hospitalized and you don’t know why; shall I venture a guess? So how do we avoid this happening again? Obey Yah by not eating Pork.