eddy8men

my master plan for finding and aquiring armour through this thread is finally coming to fruition:cool2: hey panzer i think that i'll pass on the covenanter hulls, even my wildly optimistic view of wrecks can't overcome 70 years of sea water dave it's funny that you say your mate is into aviation and not tanks as i'm into tanks and not aviation but i'm doing a usaaf airfield dig hopefully later this year, apparently there's 2 trenches full of yank vehicles. if he digs the tank up maybe we can do a swap seriously though if you can get anymore info from your friend then please let me know as i'll be up in scotland for a couple of weeks later in the year and i will check out any leads you can give me.cheers all the best eddy

steve all i need to obtain a covenanter, is a wheel and a few springs, this will then put me in the right frame of mind for asking round to get the rest of it and you know how it is once you start asking round the parts will come to you, although i will admit the hull is a fairly substantial part to be found but they're out there, all you have to do is find them eddy

matchless i think you just found a covenanter wreck, i reckon a fair bit more of the tank is still under the ground, i'd like to go and have a poke around with a spade can you be any more specific on the location as a drive from manchester to devon is a long way to go if i can't find anything. cheers eddy ps. anyone know if there are any other covenanters about on pirbright or elsewhere.

sounds great stu, i'm really looking forward to the show. i thought last year was great but this year sounds like you've been on a mission to get it bigger and better. see you there eddy

you'll be bolting it all back together soon mate. you might even make beltring at this rate eddy

alastair you have been nominated by the loyd owners club of great britain as president of the parts chasing comittee. all those in favour say aye. AYE !!! motion carried, congratulations.:-D eddy

hi diver99 i know john price from saracen exports in staffs had a couple for sale give him a try on 01952 691132. eddy

it's easy to wander off the paths as they aren't well marked :cool2:

an m10 sitting on warcop about 600m north of churchill ridge, although a definate non runner(not even i'd try to get this one going) this vehicle still has many useful parts which include the glacis plate and complete finaldrive assy although the gearbox case is smashed, there's also 3 or 4 complete bogies so lots of parts for another restoration.

hi john i forgot to mention the biggest obstacle, time and at the moment it seems to be very elusive with 2 young kids, a wife and work and a local council that doesn't want me to put my tanks on the land i bought for that purpose, so the restoring dream will have to wait for me but only in the short term i'll get it all together soon enough but until then bob and colin can keep the ball rolling and i'm also learning a lot from those two professionals i'm even cosidering restoring the rest of the stuff properly, it goes against my reme training but i'm coming round to the idea. all the best eddy

really nice work, when you first put the pictures of your sherman on the forum i think a few people watching thought it was too far gone to restore but i'm happy to see that your plan was a good one. all the best eddy

alastair we need pictures and more pictures please but i'm not talking about the loyd i meant the nice colombian girl :cool2: ay caramba ! on a slightly less interesting note, i'm boring my 24 stud flathead out by 40 thou and i'll skim the heads as well. more power the better it'll be to drive i feel a bit of carrier racing is on the cards eddy

thanks enigma you know the funny thing is i didn't really see it as much of a challenge. the theory is really simple :- get a tank, fix it up a bit and then display it to raise awareness of ww2 armour and the men that fought in them. simple what could be easier. it wasn't til i got a few tanks that some of the finer details came to light. these were where do you store them how do you transport who will restore them how do you get enough cash together to pay for all of the other points so maybe you were right, you do have to be a little nuts to take these things on.:-D all the best eddy

i see what you mean about it being a petrol bomb target, not a nice place to work that engine compartment, at least the parts are all there and petrol doesn't burn for long so you might get lucky with what can be salvaged. good luck eddy

i reckon there's a fair chance that sherman? is still under the road, anyone know any italians :cool2: eddy

top one looks like a russian copy of the cletrac, maybe it has a similar use

that's my kind of guy

don't worry fella's it has been noted and acted on already, :cool2: eddy

great first post shaddock. i like it , i like it a lot. eddy

i'm hoping that by buying 2 together, the centaur and the charioteer. that i'll have all the parts i need in one go which will enable me to use the original parts for the charioteer and fabricated items on the centaur as the charioteer to cromwell will be done right, which is where bob grundy and colin waterworth come in to it and i take a sideline as i'm a better builder than i am a restorer. i've sent you a pm ref the travel lock eddy

bit of building up with the tig followed by a spot of grinding and it'll be reet, seriously though i hope you get lucky with the engine. eddy

looks like it's had a bit of a fire by the road wheels and interior did the engine survive ok or was that cooked aswell? good luck with the resto eddy

thanks for the post adrian but it raises an interesting question. this tank was recovered 19 years ago and is in the same condition now as it was then, it still even has the soil and crap from salisbury plain in it. which leads me to believe this tank restoring game isn't as easy as i once thought. i can only hope that 19 years from now it will at least be painted green and have both tracks on it. eddy

hi andy i was thinking the same thing about the ozzy scrapyard as their climate is a little better suited to outdoor storage than ours and i'm sure the old fella must have a soft spot for the old bits of armour or he would have sold them on to the first guy that turned up with a bit of cash years ago so it's probably safe to say they won't get chopped up and no doubt some will be saved, which is what it's all about. eddy

here's a churchill laying abandoned on a farm in shrewsbury, apparently some guy bought it and then couldn't get the transport and storage sorted so it's sat there ever since,( bloody dreamers ). er, well actually it's mine :embarrassed: i'm having a little disagreement with my local planning authority over some land i bought to store the tanks on so i'm stuck til it can get sorted, luckily the seller is a good guy but i think i'll have out stayed my welcome if it doesn't go before march, might just have to bite the bullet and rent some place. while i'm at it i just thought i'd throw in a pic of the centaur as well and you guessed it, it's still at the farm next to the churchill. eddy ps. how do you make a small fortune from tank restoration ? you start off with a large one :-D