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it's interesting because i can just make it up as i go along. if i can get it to swim that would be great, as it sits the internal volume is 8 cube but after it's chopped it will be down to 5,5. should still be enough to float

it looks to have been up and running as a demonstrator  but was stripped afterward.

the current plan is to get hold of a beefy chassis and big yank diesel with autobox to go under it. i could use a land rover but i want it to be strong. i'm also going to make it amphibious as it's already a sealed steel box so it will float whether you want it to or not! should be an interesting project and will make a welcome change from slavish restoration

i may do a little modification here and there

luckily no police about in scotland, although i might have got ping'd by a mobile speed camera on the way back down the M6

Really pleased with it. Got an old range rover to mount it on but not sure if its man enough to take the weight. We'll see.

i'm going up to collect it tomorrow

yes i will. i was thinking i'd put it on a defender chassis

i've just bought it and apparently no one really knows what it's original designation was. i was told it might have been a protoype for an iraqi afv contract  but it's not certain. i may never find out. 

well done. a very technical build by the sounds of it.

nothing much mate

i'll sort the engine i'm sure of it.

you're welcome to come up anytime to see the tank 

Its waiting its turn, although I do keep messing  with it now and then.

I collected the engine from the restorer on Saturday. Unfortunately not because it was finished but because he had changed career paths and can no longer do it.

I will have to find someone else!

nice vehicle, there was one in a yard in scotland a couple of years ago but i don't know where it went

they don't really wear down much. they tend to get ripped apart by the track horns first

the turret is in tunbridge wells not leamington spa

there's a nice early churchill hull on lydd range that should be an easy recovery. also a turret in an rspb reserve in leamington spa and i have access to a full set of early track for free. you get the permissions and i will recover them for you

chieftain, cent, t55 all over £50k. don't know leopard values.

sherman, cromwell 175k+

the t34 is a bit of an odd one as they were next to nowt but now make good money 70k+ 

30 cal box holder could be postwar cent

money talk

yes mate you did me a good turn. my original box is repairable but it's nice to have a good one that requires no effort 

yes richard. i've not unboxed it yet but it looks nos. (way too busy with work)

Nothing happening as the engine guy has got another job working at a college so not sure how h3 wants to proceed. 

It's the last real bit of the puzzle i need