RattlesnakeBob

totally agree Andy....mind you .having said folk are 'reluctant to spend' at the moment ?. it all rather depends on what you are selling ...I have a mate who specialises in bespoke Ford Escort Rally cars ..he'll build you either a MK1 or Mk2 Escort to an absolutely incredible specification and..... prices start (for a very basic simple clubman model) around the £80 grand .....and go anywhere up towards £200,000 (yes I'm serious !) and.?.......he's stacked out with work and finds it difficult to meet all the orders he is getting ..also I read somewhere just after Xmas that seriously 'high end' cars such as Astons/Ferraris etc are selling better now than they have for the last 5 years or so???? ....mind you ...like I said about Landrover diffs.....not many Aston's being sold to folk round here !

that's always a difficult one with Landrovers...:undecided: ........I've bought and sold dozens in my life and have to admit to still not really being able to fathom how folk 'price' them.........I've seen some very desirable vehicles both civvy and ex army SWBs ,LWBs and Lightweights go for what can only described as 'incredible' sums........ but equally so, I've seen some go for what can only be a real 'bargain' price..... I would have thought from what you say (not having looked at the vehicle in question of course ) your price is about right.......but?!? :undecided: I'd suggest (if you haven't done so already of course) maybe advertising it in the 'high end' of the market in a magazine such as 'Landrover Owner'.......adverts in such mags seem to consistently be priced way higher than I can sell vehicles for 'on the street'... It doesn't just apply to whole vehicles either ....around my way, a secondhand Landrover diff is still only worth about 60 quid ....and yet I could point you in the direction of a number of companies in those magazines that apparently get £120 + VAT all day long for one...and have met in my travels many folk that have (not round this way though ! haha) paid such money too ....so???

...Quite possibly.....but doesn't Monty looks a bit 'fuller figured' and rounder in the face than his wartime photos?... ... I know the stress of what came next in 1944 must have been a burden on his health and general well being but to me ...I'd guess at taken postwar maybe ?...a bit of a 'meet and greet' for some of the workers responsible for helping the war effort along maybe ?

not a clue with the details mate but...what a grand old photo to find in your family !

I think her 'post service' life is just as interesting and she'll look wonderful restored as a showmans truck.... ... and I agree totally rog8811 . ...the ex army/services vehicles that Fairs and Circus's used were always fascinating to me too

fantastic !!! that is grand to see many thanks ! .and I don't know what motor she's got?.... but boy does that sound sweeeeeet !

That's a fascinating link!!..translating that website using Google and reading through .....it seems the vehicle is possibly / probably a Chenillette Lorraine 37L??? a sort of tracked prime mover / carrier in service with the French up til 1940 and then used also by the Germans afterwards.....pretty rare I would have thought?....I'd have said it'd be well worth heading into the woods with an excavator and digging her out..wonder if someone did???

Hello to you ! and don't worry...some of us on here that should be..:cool2:..aren't fluent in English either haha !

Lord knows ..something's gone/ going wrong though I reckon ?? ... it's a good example of not judging someone unless you know what is actually happening too though I reckon:-) .....as he's mustering up to load the vehicle it does seem very 'jerky'???...could be a clutch or auto gearbox problem ? I once was soundly publicly embarrassed by nothing more grand than a medium size telescopic 4x4 handler (can't recall what make it was) that had a sort of 'auto drive/select' system where you selected a gear forward or back...let the clutch up fully, then eased the throttle down and the drive was supposed to come in nice and gentle .....:cool2:.but the system was playing up on it so we'd got used to holding your foot on the brake as you gently revved up to wait for the machine to sort of 'jolt' a little bit so you knew the drive had 'come in'.. then you eased up on the brake and away you went....that was the theory anyways.. ...as the job wore on the machine had got worse and worse and would either 'leap' into movement at a helluva rate of knots or sit dead still revving and going nowhere only to suddenly surprise you ...the mechanic couldn't sort it on site so a low loader arrived to take it away for fixing....with a suitable crowd of workers and public able to view me load it I hopped in the cab.....what followed next would have made a grand video of 'how not to load a machine'..:-)

Very true.... Having known what we knew at that time in regards to Tigers & 'heavy tanks' in general you have to wonder how and why they bothered with the mighty Conquerer tho? Especially seeing as the Centurion was so very good ... Was it a case perhaps of 'keeping up with Russkies' ....... They got heavies so we better have some too ????

hello and welcome ! sounds like you should have some good photos / stories to show and tell !

hahah Rick...as the owner of a few choice pieces of British WW2 era armour.. I reckon you're the only one that can probably get away with being so.... ahem.:cool2: ..'to the point' regarding it's attributes

I totally agree mate...:cheesy: it just has Presence ! with a capital P doesn't it ? Nowadays I think all the tanks of the world are suffering from the same sort of thing that 99% of new cars suffer from... .New Cars are designed along certain parameters such as aerodynamic efficiency/ internal space for passengers & load plus ..what I guess the designer thinks 'the market' expects them to look like?...get too radical and folk won't like it and won't buy it? . .plus... if you're working to a computer aided 'aerodynamic' shape then there is only one that really works so and hence... they all, more or less look the same (dull as a plank! )...and long gone are the glory days of (in particular) American car design where if it didn't move fast enough with a great slab front of chrome?....well.. you simply put a bigger V8 under the hood ! ...Tanks must I guess, have gone the same way in that designers now know that the armour / hull / turret has to be a certain shape to be deflective and also the weight and range and mobility has to be paramount to the design...hence once again you are only left with one shape that actually 'works'.... so they all look more or less the same ..... Back in the days of the Tiger, the definitive 'shape' of 'armour' had yet to be arrived at I suppose? and hence their answer to a penetration shot was simply 'thicker armour' . ...although it has to be said the T34's designers and subsequently the Panther's designers seemed to have a better idea of where the game was going?......

on a rigid rear end bike too ! :wow: ..... seriously impressed

It does look fantastic doesn't it ?...of all the tanks that have arrived over the years since....I still say the whole presence and 'thing!' of the Tiger 1 is absolutely awesome and for me..... it's still got to be the 'best looking' tank ever....

I don't know about you Trophy160..........but they got me convinced ! A Saladin I think it would have to be for me though.....nice big proper turret and a proper looking gun :-D as someone said earlier ....just like a tank...on wheels

Loving the 2 hairy cavemen by the tank battering each other with clubs !

Being ignorant of them ...what is it about them that is duff ??..:-) shame ,cos they do look good though... a proper bruiser of a thing !.

Know exactly what you mean ! .. Given the choice I'd always tip something up so that I could get at it good and proper to get a nice deep horizontal meatball of a weld into it !... ..Years ago I used to have an old fella that did all the big welding jobs in my yard or on site for me ,the kind of chap that wasn't fazed by any materials and would root about in the back of his van for a box of a certain type of rod ...then simply adjusting his set accordingly would nonchalantly get on with it with a roll up dangling from his bottom lip. :-D I was always in absolute awe of how incredibly good his welding was... no matter what angle he had to work at, in whatever light available, under any conditions , wind, rain , storm etc.... .....I'm afraid I'm the sort of welder where maybe 1 in 6 of my vertical or upside down ones are 'not too bad...sort of ok really...I think...' the rest would be more of the " of fer christ sake!...get the grinder!...." variety :cool2:

I can imagine that must happen....some long lost/son/cousin etc suddenly remembers Grandad / Uncle etc had an old 'insert suitable item' and asked where it's gone?...must be a bit of a problem:-( also though....how do you deal with it should someone turn up and have claim to something that may have been simply 'stolen' and perhaps sold to you as a 'genuine item' or that you have bought 'completely legitimately' from a third party ... or even more complicated...perhaps the item has been 'sold on' to you in good 'original faith' but it turns out that the 'seller' may have thought he was able to do so but simply didn't actually have the families/owners permission?.. I do sympathise... it must be a bit of a nightmare to deal with?.. anyways! glad this old bomb has turned up and sorry for the waffle !

hey up & welcome liking the sound of a 6 litre V8..... ..oh yes...anything V8 is good... but a 6L V8 has gotta be even better than good ..:cool2: ...now don't go and spoil it by telling me it's a diesel ! hahah!...then again :cool2:....

Yes it is an incredible collection ....very of it envious mate .... Being in Florida I'm guessing you've already seen the collection at the Chickamauga battlefield Museum?? I was lucky to be able to visit there myself a few years ago and if you haven't seen it yet, it's well worth a day if you're ever in the area

Sorry Tony yer quite right of course it's a No.5 Mk1..'Jungle carbine' was only it's unofficial name as I understand:red: PS: I didn't realise til reading up on them a few years back that they were actually developed more for / with Airborne operations in mind rather than for 'Jungle' use anyways ...so ....guess they should be more accurately known as an 'airborne carbine' perhaps !!

That Sir, is an incredible collection to own!..... ..Just wondering .are Lee Enfields relatively available over there then or have you really had to diligently 'hunt them down' ??...:laugh: ......curious and pondering just 'how and why' they made the journey across the Atlantic?..did a 'branch' of the US Services possibly use them?.... or have they ended up in the US from other means such as private imports ?? Thanks anyways ! and PS!:.in the first picture... on the right a few in from the end .....is that a 'Jungle Carbine' model??.... I know they weren't supposed to be all that 'useable' but I think they look fantastic ...very purposeful looking .... even if they apparently kicked like a mule , were louder than a thunderclap and not always accurate !

Off to finally see it this week with any luck mate ...I'll take a load of pictures and have a look for the number