Diesel demon Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 Will look great with a lick of paint Iain ! :nut: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirhc Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 Will look great with a lick of paint Iain ! :nut: He has just painted it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharky Posted November 10, 2010 Author Share Posted November 10, 2010 Will look great with a lick of paint Iain ! :nut: thinking of having it chromed paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diesel demon Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 Ive got some red engine paint left over...any good? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andym Posted November 11, 2010 Share Posted November 11, 2010 nice one Andy trust you All jokes aside, there's just something "right" about the way the 433 looks. Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diesel demon Posted November 11, 2010 Share Posted November 11, 2010 It could look a bit 'righter' with some mud guards on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankman Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 the 432 bars will fit we have two 433's and two 432's and have been running 433's on 432 bars for a year now regular off road driving with no problems the MAJOR and i mean MAJOR problem with 433's is there are no packs availiable for normal money so you have to adapt from 432 parts the wiring looms,radiators and heat exchangers are very different as well as one of the fan drive motors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afvnut75 Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 the 432 bars will fit we have two 433's and two 432's and have been running 433's on 432 bars for a year now regular off road driving with no problems the MAJOR and i mean MAJOR problem with 433's is there are no packs availiable for normal money so you have to adapt from 432 parts the wiring looms,radiators and heat exchangers are very different as well as one of the fan drive motors. With this in mind does it mean that the abbott has now gone into the realm of vehicles for definate where people say yeah id love to have an abbott but just cant get hold of any spares and they ve become more expensive to restore because everything has to be remanufactured again ? And surely there must be some abbott packs out there still ? if not what has happened to all the spare parts for these vehicles have they all crossed the atlantic or have they been binned or cut up by longsighted people ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankman Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 (edited) theres plenty of packs availiable but there being held onto and are priced very highly its possible to rebuild a 432 pack to fit a 433 but some parts are special and worth their weight on gold ive been looking been looking at replacing these parts with similar more modern replacements and am still searching as usual with all 43 vehicles the engines and drive are fairly sturdy but the associated plumbing lets it down Edited January 11, 2011 by Tankman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afvnut75 Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 theres plenty of packs availiable but there being held onto and are priced very highly its possible to rebuild a 432 pack to fit a 433 but some parts are special and worth their weight on gold ive been looking been looking at replacing these parts with similar more modern replacements and am still searching as usual with all 43 vehicles the engines and drive are fairly sturdy but the associated plumbing lets it down Well you would be a man to ask then i am going to start colecting abbott parts as i will hopefully manage to acquire one this year or next can you please pm me with a list of parts that are essential that are their weight in gold, As i feel it would better to start collecting the bits before i find the vehicle then ill have enough as spares or replacements for when the day comes and what parts of the vehicle are you looking to modernise ? thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankman Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 our abbot looked as tidy as yours two years ago but letting people drive them soon saw to that we still have the skirts and bins they were getting beaten so we took them off and the headlights died due to an over enthusiastic customer ploughing into three inch ice on our track Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andym Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 Am I correct in thinking that the 433 pack has the radiator at the front rather than on top of the engine? Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankman Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 you are the radiator sits vertically at the front and is very different to the 432 one while the fans are at the rear its one of the nice rare 433 items that doesnt seem to go but is expensive to replace my advice find someone who repairs air-conditioning and get him to re braze it if he can then pressure test it but not too high Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andym Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 I live in hopes of a 433 if the price hasn't risen to something entirely stupid by the time I get the 432 finished! Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankman Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 i believe the going rate is around 15-20,000 depending on condition or five good 432's sillyness Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrevorLarkum Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 Iain: I've added information and photos from this thread, thanks. Can you say where the scrapyard was that it came from, so I can get its background history correct? Everyone else: here it is as it looks now: Unique ID 1835: Abbot at Armourgeddon And a view into the turret through the top hatch (taken with the camera on a monopod): Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andym Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 Iain - she's getting dusty! Time for a quick drive round, perhaps? :shocked: Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharky Posted November 16, 2011 Author Share Posted November 16, 2011 Iain - she's getting dusty! Time for a quick drive round, perhaps? :shocked: Andy Hi Andy she is a bit, but we are hopefully putting up a new museum building this winter so we'll give her a spin out then when we shuffle vehicles around . most of the dust is from the tanks running round the track all summer gets like a sandstorm up here with 12 tanks working continuously. hows yours doing any more progress . p.s trevor, the scrappers she came from was just outside markham moor near chesterfield and before that she was with everyman leisure driving experiance centre at mallory park i think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
private mw Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 wow scrappers not that far from me , :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrevorLarkum Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 p.s trevor, the scrappers she came from was just outside markham moor near chesterfield and before that she was with everyman leisure driving experiance centre at mallory park i think. Thank you! Location History and Map updated: http://preservedtanks.com/Profile.aspx?UniqueID=1835 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andym Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 That location map probably needs Germany on it as she'll have spent most of her life over there! Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrevorLarkum Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 That location map probably needs Germany on it as she'll have spent most of her life over there! Andy I agree but I don't add locations without some evidence (it could equally be said of most post-war British military vehicles) - maybe she went no further than Larkhill. Perhaps someone will come up with a service history or photographic evidence from its registration: "07 EB 65". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andym Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 I wonder if Iain has the record cards? Bovington are usually pretty helpful in that respect. Mine (08EB10) spent all its life in BAOR before coming back to the UK to be sold off. Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrevorLarkum Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 I wonder if Iain has the record cards? Bovington are usually pretty helpful in that respect. Mine (08EB10) spent all its life in BAOR before coming back to the UK to be sold off. Andy Good point. I don't yet have many Abbots online, but they are on my to-do list - I hope at that point I can also add yours. This is what I have so far: Preserved Abbots Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin craig Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 (edited) Trevor, you had better slap a pin in the map on Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. The Ontario Regt have 06 EB 80 see this link:- http://www.ontrmuseum.ca/vehicles.htm There is also another one belonging to the Canadian War Museum currently on loan to the Lincoln and Welland museum see mentioned in this text:- http://www.army.forces.gc.ca/31cbg_hq/2009/News/NiagaraArmoury.htm I will scout around for its number, believe it is a Value Engineered Abbot. There is this one in Alberta, Canada http://armourcrossalberta.com/abbot.htm I am fairly sure that there are a few in the US of A R Edited November 20, 2011 by robin craig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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