latest toy FV433

[Diesel demon]

Will look great with a lick of paint Iain ! :nut:

[sirhc]

Will look great with a lick of paint Iain ! :nut:

 

He has just painted it...

[sharky]

Will look great with a lick of paint Iain ! :nut:

thinking of having it chromed paul

[Diesel demon]

Ive got some red engine paint left over...any good?

[andym]

nice one Andy trust you

 

All jokes aside, there's just something "right" about the way the 433 looks.

 

Andy

[Diesel demon]

It could look a bit 'righter' with some mud guards on

[Tankman]

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.

[afvnut75]

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 ?

[Tankman]

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

[afvnut75]

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

[Tankman]

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

[andym]

Am I correct in thinking that the 433 pack has the radiator at the front rather than on top of the engine?

 

Andy

[Tankman]

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

[andym]

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

[Tankman]

i believe the going rate is around 15-20,000 depending on condition or five good 432's sillyness

[TrevorLarkum]

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):

 

[andym]

Iain - she's getting dusty! Time for a quick drive round, perhaps? :shocked:

 

Andy

[sharky]

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.

[private mw]

wow scrappers not that far from me , :-)

[TrevorLarkum]

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

[andym]

That location map probably needs Germany on it as she'll have spent most of her life over there!

 

Andy

[TrevorLarkum]

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".

[andym]

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

[TrevorLarkum]

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

[robin craig]

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