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You should be able to trickle charge a battery through the accessory socket, so long as it is very low ampage, you can buy a number of chargers which charge through cigar lighter sockets (12v) as the ampage is low. Just make sure that you get the polarity right, i.e. Positive and Neutral the right way round! :schocked:

I like the russian super heavy, it looks like a well tooled up shipping container! paint it blue and put a white star and Maersk on the side, clandestine tank! It would be easy to replicate, get a battered 432 and put a shipping container on it...voila!! http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o72/rik242_2006/super_heavy_tank_of_vd_mendeleev_mo.jpg[/img]

A bit extreme dismantling your dodge when you want to park it! :-D

"Sunray" lost on an exercise, never!! :-D

Just picked this up a couple of weeks ago, a very nice MK4 LWB ex Home Office Mobile Police Column vehicle, needs a little work but its a lovely old thing, runs really nice, steering is light and has a nice gearbox, comes with an air compressor/tyre inflator, and has the advantage over your standard land rover when it comes to selecting between 2 and 4 wheel drive is you can do it on the fly at a good turn of speed, you can even select between front and rear wheel drive!

Has anybody read this book, or have a copy they no longer want? i read it years ago, and thought it was an interesting base for a story, basically the allies done a deal with Satan and resurrected 13 devils, who were given 13 black Shermans to go on a trail of destruction against the German forces. One shed a track, and the allies welded the tank up and it was forgotten for decades etc, always thought it would of made a good film! Heres a picture of the cover:- http://dontbetonit.tripod.com/devils_of_dday5_cover.jpg[/img]

Do you keep the 2 speed dynamo well oiled, and do you oil it up after the vehicle has been stood (1/4 Pint engine oil)

A colleague i work with goes to Australia and he had seen it:- http://www.nulon.co.nz/images/large/syb350.jpg[/img]

I have the Gerber version, bought from an American PX in Dhahran just after the gulf war. Still just as good now as it was new, but the difference is the handles dont nip your hand when the pliers close, unlike the leatherbloke! Good to hear about the service though!

I'll give a couple of examples of re-enactors at a show i attended earlier in the year.... A chap with his Canadian ford with Limber and artillery piece in dressed down tommy garb, had a large display of shells, fuses and other artillery paraphenalia, arranged like it was an active artillery position, kids were operating the gun, and old boys were "Pulling up a Sandbag" talking of their experiences etc. He was very knowledgeable on the equipment he had, a collection he had built over a large number of years. For me this was the best display of the show. Across the way was a GMC truck in a very overdone camouflaged position, manned by a number of American G.I. Airborne re-enactors, they had every conceivable gun, ammo box and military knick knack, surrounded by barbed wire and minefield signs etc. They were so busy as they put it been "Living history" people walked on by. If you dont include the "Public" they are then the "Shunned" with the resulting negative feeling about what you are up to. Magnify this by making the re-enacting period in recent history and emotions run high, i shouldnt think English Civil War re-enactors have this problem, however interesting for re-enactors it is, large groups of SS been very serious and not entertaining any public involvement is not good for the movement. I spent 15 years in the forces, personally i dont like wearing uniform, and wear a boiler suit at shows, i prefer the vehicles and how they are kitted out and like talking to the public, answering questions and giving them rides in my vehicle, preferring the enjoyment it gives. Basically, if you feel you have to walk around in uniform, remember what it represents and act responsibly, and if you dont want to talk to people and explain the significance of what you are re-enacting......get another hobby! Thats me off the soapbox!

That landrover with the Artic heater is exactly like the ones we used on our unit. The flaps were put down to cut out the shine etc when first moving into a site, once in place, the bonnet was lifted and a big hessian sheet pulled over the vehicle and trailer(which was put alongside), which made it a big disrupted blob. then the cam net was put over that, pegged down and pushed away from the vehicle using cam poles, it is very effective especially in woodland areas, where you can make vehicles near invisible from only a short distance.

It's quite unbelievable that they hadn't procured wheeled armoured vehicles long before this, prior to the hastily bought in new stuff, it was Saxon's and that was it, look how many conflicts we have been involved with since the fall of the Soviet union, and they are still running around in gear designed for the Cold War. Des Browne, trying to tell us that the forces are well equipped for the situation...my arse!

Go on get it started, should be good! :box:

I dont know, probably is the place to post stuff like this, gives the true reality of war and the effects, and not the Bulls**t glossy hollywood version of events. It may be difficult to swallow in this Politically Correct era, but some people need a shake out of the comfort zone. I suffered a far less severe version after been in Bosnia with the U.N. constant sniping and mortaring has that effect! however i pretty much got over that, what happened to that Marine is in another league, and he isnt the first and he wont be the last combatant to suffer. My sympathy goes out to anybody in the forces who has to suffer long after events have passed. Good post John. :tup:

Removed the comment from here, and put a more pointed one in "Scratching my Head"

Been, Seen and signed, not too sure of the Clarkson one though! :-D

Notice how they never say how many de-activated weapons are in law abiding collectors possession. How long will it take to outlaw Military Vehicles, after all, if a politician starts drawing "Logical" conclusions about our vehicles owned by a minority, they could disappear overnight with barely a peep from the rest of the population. Just make sure you keep your vehicles secure, disabled when not used and out of reach of the criminal element, otherwise we will be on the end of another knee jerk reaction, imagine the Glasgow airport incident if it had featured a Humber Pig or a REO instead of a Jeep Cherokee.

And if somebody comes across 17 KA 50, a Series 3 FFR, i would be personally very interested in that!!!

Not 100% sure what the Yellow diamond with key symbol is, probably a Flight within 2 Sqn. 2 Sqn was historically an Armoured Car squadron (Rolls Royce armoured cars, for airfield defence etc), so might have some throwback meaning to that.

I get the feeling that particular Matador was worked to death!

Brand new & just repainted, 2 Coy, RASC, Aden.

Its II (2) squadron RAF Regiment:- http://rafregt.com/IIsqnregtcrst.gif.gif[/img] Ah, 15 years in the RAF wasn't wasted after all!!

Please tell us more!!

On the way to collect, an Austin Gipsy, via somebodys epic collection of slowly disolving military vehicles, we got onto the discussion of what still survives and how/why. Mainly, most of the lighter "Useful" stuff post WW2 got thrashed into the deck by people who were skint and needed cheap transport. The bigger it was, the more specialised the application, so for instance a Wrecker probably lived behind a garage for years with occasional use, and maintained by somebody who knew how to keep it going, hence quite a few are running about. The same goes for big trucks and the logging industry, kept going because they were useful. These people have shaped the MV movement the way it is today, keeping a vehicle with a limited design life going long after its original use passed, until an MV enthusiast found it. After all with exception of a few hardcore nutters in the earlier years, probably the last 10 - 15 years has seen a bit of an explosion for Military kit. So me and Croc reckon that the real heroes are the people who were tight and bought cheap surplus vehicles and kept them going for years, probably having plenty of land, or sheds to leave them when they became redundant!

They look like they would be a very useful bit of kit, especially after the war, a nice big van body on a widely availble truck, they probably all got ran into the ground, and worked to death!