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If you know more about this car, contact @vasslukas

“Hi G-uys this was recently discussed on the G Wagen Register- a member has asked for help to find out more about an interesting W460 pre-merger AMG G-Class.

At first glance it sounded almost impossible — early AMG conversions usually don’t appear anywhere on the Mercedes datacard because AMG worked very differently back then.

In the 1980s, a customer typically bought a normal Mercedes-Benz from a dealer, delivered the car to AMG in Affalterbach, and AMG modified it according to the customer’s wishes. As a result, there is rarely anything pointing directly to AMG anywhere on the datacard.

The car in question was believed to be a W460 AMG G 5.6 Sport Widebody. All I had were 2 blurry period photos (pic 1,2), rumors that the car once appeared in a Japanese magazine and a few VINs of other 1980s AMG V8 conversions which were for sale or appeared somewhere in the past.

Initially, I thought the vehicle might be extremely early — perhaps around 1979 or 1980 — because one of the black-and-white AMG photos looked very old stylistically. But then I noticed something important:
the car had the thicker front indicator spacer bases introduced on later W460s.

That detail effectively ruled out the “1979 prototype” theory.

For a while I even suspected that WDB46023317063078 a known AMG V8 conversion, could be the actual car from the photos as it has very similar specs - silver colour, no headlight washers, protective grills for headlamps, mudflaps, gray interior, rear window wiper and thick indicator spacers.

The first real breakthrough came when I found an AMG brochure containing a dated press photo (pic 3) from the https://oudemercedesbrochures.nl/AMG_Presse_0987de.html

The brochure clearly dated the vehicle to September 1987.

That immediately narrowed the search dramatically.

Instead of searching the entire production history of the W460, we could now focus on:

silver W460.233.1s, built roughly between chassis numbers 50,000–60,000 which means vehicles produced between January and September 1987. It also rulled out WDB46023317063078 which has a 1988 order code so could not be on a photo made in September 1987 by @gclasslegend

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Two G 55 AMGs for a customer from Arabia.

“The customer, a member of an Arab ruling house, was an amateur photographer and often out and about in his estates in Africa, where he was keen to take his wildlife photography to the next level. “I want to be able to take shots of lion and giraffe from the vehicle,” he explained, “preferably at dawn.”

After 30 meetings with two AMG experts and four years of work the two special G-Model were delivered.

A closed, 4.70-meter four-door G55 AMG with 5.5-liter naturally aspirated engine and 358 bhp was to be the man from the Middle East’s “bloodhound”, for want of a better word, on his photo-safaris. The vehicle would be painted black metallic to allow him to stalk his photographic prey quietly and, he hoped, unnoticed during the hours of darkness. A night-view kit would help him track down the animals. The thermal imaging camera evaluates the images electronically and transmits them to special helmets. These enable the photographer and the driver in the cockpit to follow the night life on the savanna and even to drive without lights.

Once dawn had broken over the African savanna, the photographer would then switch over into a second, similarly powered G-Model. The daytime vehicle was painted in a subtle shade of ivory. “In theory this color was no longer available, so we had to pull a few strings,” says Pflugfelder, a master craftsman in AMG’s customization department. At 5.70 m in length, the camouflaged G represented an XXL version of the G 55 AMG and was fitted with a luxurious interior and rear seat bench for employees. Once the roof hatch has opened, the mammoth camera rises 80 centimeters by means of a lifting mechanism. Sitting in a rotating armchair, the photographer can then capture pictures of elephants, lions or giraffes in their natural environment. His reflex camera’s telephoto lens would have a focal length of 1,600 mm, this immensely powerful system allowing him to capture an impressively sharp image of a yawning lion’s teeth from a distance of 400 meters, for example.” by @gclasslegend

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