1 hour ago, Ttaskmaster said:

I spent a little time around FV432s and FV103 Spartans, including a little driving - They are wicked good fun!!!

I always wanted to get one myself, but the wife won't even let me get my H-Licence. Said something about impatience and danger, due to not playing well with others, or something...

 

I just wanna pop out the hatch and scream at someone, "Come on, luv, you can get a TANK through that gap!!""

 

 

Yes, I know it's not technically a tank... although you can mod a Rarden turret to shoot 40mm paintballs!

Well, the Scorpion and Scimitar variants both have tracks and turrets. I'd let calling them "tanks" pass, unlike the time a BBC reporter kept describing an M88 armoured recovery vehicle (turretless) as "a tank", and ignoring the chance to do a live interview with a US marine who was just about pull down a statue of Saddam Hussein with it!

1 hour ago, skomaz said:

 

..................................and would love to see the reactions of people once its in use on-road!

 

.............................especially when its parked in the Mother and Baby bays outside the Local Tesco store.   

2 hours ago, CWARD said:

Wives really are the fun police pouring scorn on the great ideas that their husbands have. 

 

I think she's more worried that we couldn't afford the insurance claims when some BMW driver inevitably tries to bully me, as I tend to bully back...

 

1 hour ago, KenONeill said:

Well, the Scorpion and Scimitar variants both have tracks and turrets. I'd let calling them "tanks" pass

In that case - Anything that can take the aforementioned Rarden turret, including an FV432!

 

1 hour ago, Auric Goldfinger said:

 

.............................especially when its parked in the Mother and Baby bays outside the Local Tesco store.   

Since you'd be parking on top of the white van and the Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag already stretched across two bays each, despite neither being parents with kids, I imagine the reactions would be rather favourable!

3 minutes ago, Ttaskmaster said:

Anything that can take the aforementioned Rarden turret, including an FV432!

By that definition a Ferret scout car is a tank!    

1 hour ago, Auric Goldfinger said:

 

.............................especially when its parked in the Mother and Baby bays outside the Local Tesco store.   

 

4 minutes ago, Ttaskmaster said:

 

Since you'd be parking on top of the white van and the Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag already stretched across two bays each, despite neither being parents with kids, I imagine the reactions would be rather favourable!

Some years ago, my Mum and I both had stiff knees and were using walking sticks. I parked in a bay clearly marked "Parent and child" (no age restriction), and someone complained. My response was to look at them and say "This lady is my mother."

1 minute ago, KenONeill said:

By that definition a Ferret scout car is a tank!    

Your assertion, with which I was running, included tracks.... this doesn't!

 

I only mentioned the Rarden as it's used on several vehicles that aren't technically tanks.... and because it's the only one I can actually remember the name of!

5 hours ago, Auric Goldfinger said:

 

.............................especially when its parked in the Mother and Baby bays outside the Local Tesco store.   

 

Ahhh... so it DOES have isofix and top tethers anchors already fitted then...

15 hours ago, skomaz said:

 

Ahhh... so it DOES have isofix and top tethers anchors already fitted then...

More that you can fit all of that and more, in just about any configuration you like!

TBH, I'd love to have a MilSpec baby seat... She's already got her first pair of combat boots!!

Awesome! Just awesome!! :-)

On 04/12/2018 at 13:36, BossFox said:

 

So I bought an Alvis Sultan from Tanks a Lot who are based near Silverstone.

They blasted the outside and gave it three coats of Nato green, then it was delivered on a low loader, which I drove it off.

Had they run out of Fantasy Green paint then?

I hear that it is very popular these days.

Great thread Richard, think the thread should be updated with the fuel pump pic  

So having got it covered on trade plates as it needed to go to be weight tested, I set off on Friday to get fuel, weigh it and then take it back to the unit (which involved going past the house).

Stripped out in the back, it was 7.8 tonnes.

 

Put £50 of diesel in just to make sure it had enough, which was fun as had to drive through the ASDA car park to get to their fuel station.

To say we got noticed driving through a supermarket car park at 3pm on a Friday would be an understatement!

 

 

As I was driving back past the house I stopped off for a photo with the Wife's Yeti...

 

 

It drives well, considering what it is.  Actually easy to maneuver at speed and follow the curves of the road.

Gave it a full check over before we set off, did around 14 miles and it was fine.

 

I can see why the tank driver's helmets have ear defenders built in though, with the tracks rotating and the diesel engine humming away 50cm away it does get a bit noisy!

35 minutes ago, BossFox said:

So having got it covered on trade plates as it needed to go to be weight tested, I set off on Friday to get fuel, weigh it and then take it back to the unit (which involved going past the house).

Stripped out in the back, it was 7.8 tonnes.

 

Put £50 of diesel in just to make sure it had enough, which was fun as had to drive through the ASDA car park to get to their fuel station.

To say we got noticed driving through a supermarket car park at 3pm on a Friday would be an understatement!

 

 

As I was driving back past the house I stopped off for a photo with the Wife's Yeti...

 

 

It drives well, considering what it is.  Actually easy to maneuver at speed and follow the curves of the road.

Gave it a full check over before we set off, did around 14 miles and it was fine.

 

I can see why the tank driver's helmets have ear defenders built in though, with the tracks rotating and the diesel engine humming away 50cm away it does get a bit noisy!

Who is cleaning the drive?

1 minute ago, shyVRS245 said:

Who is cleaning the drive?

 

The rain.

Do you have a "working at height" assessment for refueling?

18 minutes ago, KenONeill said:

Do you have a "working at height" assessment for refueling?

Yes the BOSS himself carried it out, approved it and even RUBBER STAMPED it. HSE Office, Fox Transport.

Absolute quality photos!!!

5 hours ago, BossFox said:

Put £50 of diesel in just to make sure it had enough, which was fun as had to drive through the ASDA car park to get to their fuel station.

To say we got noticed driving through a supermarket car park at 3pm on a Friday would be an understatement!

And we all know you loved it - How could anyone not?

Can't wait to see what happens by the time this thread gets to page 20.  My prediction, full carbon fibre bodyshell, magnesium alloy tracks and idler wheels to further lighten it, and a Rolls Royce Olympus engine out of a decommissioned Vulcan shoehorned into the back.  0-200 time less than a Bugatti Veyron.

I had a friend that worked for Vickers and so managed a day playing in a Challenger 2 tank. Brilliant fun. Going around the test course with hairpin turn and giant concrete blocks showed the flat cornering and super suspension to it's fullest. The only thing that i didn't like was the noise! Never been in anything as noisy in my life. I suspect sharing a spin dryer with a small atomic bomb might be a similar effect. Although to be fair it still wasn't as loud as my neighbours Impreza :( 

 

Brilliant purchase and if you want any radio gear for it I know a guy that does a lot of work with ex miltary vehicles and their Comms systems  

 

 

 

 

On a slightly related note, I'd heard but don't know if it's true or not, that you can own activated filed artillery guns on a shotgun licence though you have to keep the breech block in a safe when not being used.  If true it must be quite funny when local cops send the new lad round to check your weapons are secured properly. 

 

"Hello, I'm here to inspect your gun sir"

 

>>"Certainly officer , follow me"  >> *Leads officer away from front door, round the side to the garage*

 

"You don't store your gun in the garage do you??" > *Writes notes in notebook*

 

>>"Well I can hardly store it in the back bedroom !! " >> *Quickly opens garage door and officer stares down a barrel the size of his head*

10 hours ago, widdershins said:

On a slightly related note, I'd heard but don't know if it's true or not, that you can own activated filed artillery guns on a shotgun licence though you have to keep the breech block in a safe when not being used.

 

It's basically true, in essence... sort of... bit more complicated than that and with certain caveats, but yes it's considered a smoothbore weapon and so comes under a shotgun licence.

There are people who own 'live fire' weaponry under such regulations, in the re-enactment and Living History groups. I know several guys with mortars and someone with a fully working Sherman, all of which make very loud bangs... and if you have a sense of humour, the Sherman firing a whole pack of sausages makes for a very impressive muzzle blast smoke effect.

I'm so fed up of people putting dings in my car this may well be the answer :(  I wouldn't need any gun stuff, but a reversing camera would be nice...on second thoughts, who cares about a reversing camera in a vehicle like that