Youtube/Video Military Vehicle Restorers

This is remarkable.


Yes, the incredibly detailed re-manufacturing of parts, the scanning, the precision, etc.
Mostly, though; the fact all of this incredible and expensive work by Panzerfarm is made possible by there being a market for it.
It's an assumption, but presumably the wider context will be in recreation and reverse-engineering of 'lost' parts for every kind of engineering or restoration project.

 

Farm boys.
T-72.
Fascinating.

That thing's core design is 50 years old, and yet still definitely about, and I still 'sort of' think of it as a modern vehicle.
(yes, I appreciate many variants over the years, but still... Contrast with lifespan/development speed in WW2.)

 

Must be something in the air re. 4 rad German ACs at the mo.
The Weald doing its 223 (Maybe two... can't recall?) & the Aussies starting on a 221.

 

The Farm Boys' growing rage while doing some theoretically pretty routine work on T72 is quite funny, and also illuminating.
"Whoever designed this; I would like to kick them in the balls."
The point about often-criticised Chieftain packs well-made,

Increasingly wonder what would've really happened had they ever 'poured through the Fulda gap'...

 

That Caernarvon, Conway etc. period of 'What's the biggest BFG we can add to existing chassis?' didn't half throw out some funny old sports.
Magnificent.
And strange.

Farm Boys again:


For context: the size of the GBMFBFG (And autoloader) intended:
183mm L4A1.
A gun that happens to have a tank attached...


Did it have a Welsh town C name?
Not sure I've seen one.
Cardiff, Caerphilly, Chepstow?...

 

Chung-Tzu, leading TwatterX tankophile points to an Armoured Archives vid suggesting Centaur.
Peculiar. There'd already been a Centaur, and seems outside of temporary convention...

 

Not #WW2, but anything FV600 is alright by me.
Really nice Stolly getting a touch-up by the local farm boys.

Once watched a beautiful freshly-restored example do the classic 'high speed jump' into a lake at Beltring, driven by some hammered people rather late in the evening. (The washboard does work. And didn't break)
Then started sinking quite dramatically. Very funny. Sat there for an hour or two watching with a bottle of Wodka as assorted recovery vehicles and rescue methods were deployed.
They got it out, and all appeared to have sobered up quite a bit during the effort...

They had left the bungs out.

 

Shouty Bruce.
Good compilation.
Fauns, 770K, Anhangers, 251s, Schwimmers, etc.

 

£80-ish K for a Schwimmer!
FFS.
Was once offered one in floating order for £2,5k
F. you, Captain Hindsight.
Etc.
And so on....