War And Peace Video

Whilst at the War and Peace show Barry offered me a place in his FV432 for a spin around the arena.  Well I wasn't going to say no, since every year I have been to Beltring I have been round the arena.  Here is two videos of the experience.  The first is heading to the arena.  The second is in the arena itself

The War and Peace show

And so the War and Peace show is now over.  The Worlds Largest gathering of privately owned military vehicles in the world.  This year there were just over 3000 vehicles I am told.  I got the jeep painted in time but had to take the trailer in the old colours as I did not have time to paint it.

Andy came to join us with his Iltis and the team was complete.  Some photos of some of the vehicles I liked are below.

I have also included a video of a T-54 with 100mm gun crushing two cars in the arena at Beltring you can see that here - T-54 crushes two cars, crazy tank driving

War a peace show looms

As the war and Peace show begins in earnest next week I have been spending the last few days getting ready for it.  The jeep, now fully painted got through its MOT although the break lights didn't work in the morning, I managed to get them sorted in time, the stoplight switch had failed.  Driving it home and the car started bouncing around the road like a mad thing.  Had to stop and take a look but nothing obvious, I put it down to a bust shock absorber but thought I would check tyre pressures first.  Turned out that pumping up the tyres did the trick.  Ready for Beltring now, I have set up the pitch and look forward to meeting any of you there.

Getting Ready for War And Peace

My long struggle with getting the jeep ready for War and Peace has left me with little time to get the jeep completely finished.  I have cleaned, rust proofed, primed and painted the whole of the underneath of the car and have managed to get a really good finish on the bodywork.  I am not going to be able to get the writing or decals on the jeep in time for Beltring but I am not too worried about that.

If anybody has any advice on bonnet numbering, and where to put markings etc I would be very grateful.

I hope you will agree that it is a great result.

Picture below of the Jeep during painting.