My Jeep

My Jeep
this is my Willys Jeep

Wednesday 23 June 2010

Hi guys,

Just thought that I would let you know the Tank Limo video has now reached No. 29 in the most watched videos of all time in the cars and vehicles category.

check the video out here - Tank limo - the worlds only stretched tracked vehicle. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jkn8brWg1I

Tuesday 1 June 2010

Tank driving day



So it was full Monty day on Saturday and it absolutely pissed it down all day.  Doesn't matter though I was working down on heavy armour on the 432s and the 2S1s.
The weather was good for tank driving.  

Luckily I wasn't up on the Easy company stand, they managed to break 1 Humvee, drive shaft went and two Lances.

The pictures show some 2S1 action through the water splash and on other parts of the course. 


There is also a picture of Wayne our mechanic with his new toy, a quad bike, don't ask me why he has a ladder on the front.

The Land Rover in the background is not a military machine, but a painted civilian 90.

The car crush went well, for the first time I decided to put a camera inside the car, we found a good spot between the headrest and the seat which turned out to be very successful, you can see the video here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QX1Ls1Eil0, this video is already trending on youtube.

The video footage of the whole crush can be seen here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmI1fXAPq-w.  Watch till the end because for the first time ever the bonnet of the car managed to ping off a bazooka plate from the side of the tank.  Richard who was filming it at the time had a bit of a moment when 1/4 ton of armoured steel flew off towards him.

So the car got its own back in the end!!!

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