Easo's tankfest trip to bovington

[easo]

G'day all, a few weeks ago I went to the Tankfest at bovington. A realy fun day and a big eye opener.

Firstly the tank that got me there, 2003 td5 110
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/07/665.jpg

The re-inactors were alot of fun to talk to and realy get into their rolls. Right up to the rank systems in their own groups.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/07/666.jpg
You can own anything that is deactivated. Or hire the blank firing stuff.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/07/667.jpg

Stweart M3
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/07/668.jpg

Sherman.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/07/669.jpg

More to follow

[BBC]

G'day all, a few weeks ago I went to the Tankfest at bovington. A realy fun day and a big eye opener.

Firstly the tank that got me there, 2003 td5 110
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/07/665.jpg

The re-inactors were alot of fun to talk to and realy get into their rolls. Right up to the rank systems in their own groups.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/07/666.jpg
You can own anything that is deactivated. Or hire the blank firing stuff.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/07/667.jpg

Stweart M3
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/07/668.jpg

Sherman.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/07/669.jpg

More to follow
Easo, Is this from the Tank Museum at Bovington? I visited there in 1992. An impressive display.

[easo]

Panzer, in good working order.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/07/663.jpg

Churchill.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/07/664.jpg

Heres one for you TommyK, the valaintine.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/07/640.jpg

This one we all know and I begged to drive it, begged and begged an begged.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2012/03/272.jpg

And it moved.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2010/07/1308.jpg (http://s134.photobucket.com/albums/q100/easo2/daniels%20stuff/uk%20trip/?action=view&current=DSCF0574.flv)

More to follow.

[easo]

That was a quick reply, I'm still uploading. Yeah mate Bovington.
Heres one more
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/07/662.jpg (http://s134.photobucket.com/albums/q100/easo2/daniels%20stuff/uk%20trip/?action=view&current=DSCF0567.flv)
.........................for now.

Still uploading more.

Enjoy Easo

[ellard]

Hi there Easo

Looks like the trip is going well - keep up the great pictures...


The re-inactors were alot of fun to talk to and realy get into their rolls.

Your right there - it looks the part indeed...

All the best

Wayne

[Tommy]

Heres one for you TommyK, the valaintine.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/07/640.jpg



Yeah and it's probably the one I used to own as some bugger (name withheld) from the eastern states sold it back to the Poms for a filthy profit. :mad: :mad: :mad:

[Dinty]

G'day All, That's what happens when you sell/give away something it then belongs to another party and you have lost control over it, it's like the 109 Series 2A amphibious Land Rover that I could have gone and looked at in Newcastle not knowing it was what it was until it was too late, bought by a well known Land Rover person in this part of the world, it was sold to an unamed buyer for an astronomical sum ($20,000+ I was told) and it now lives in his private collection, all that and it could have been mine for less than $300.00 Au **it happens,, cheers Dennis:wasntme:
PS My good friend also had a S2 Ambulance, one of the prototypes, he sold to it a fellow who was going to restore it, so he gave him all sorts of NOS stuff to help in the resto,, hey presto the bodies off and fitted to a 109 S3 Stage 1 Isuzu, the rest ends up at a well known place for wrecking, is he p****d off yes but I told him the same thing as well...

[simonl8353]

Nice pics easo,
Living in from Hampshire for 25 yrs, I visited Bovington Tank Museum (in Dorset) many many times, its a facinating place.

My memory may have faded over the years but one static exhibit that never ceased to amaze me was the WWI tank that took 6 or 8 people to drive. 2 for the side guns, 2 for the side brakes/accelerators plus the observers and gun loaders I think. Now this thing is just a big metal box, with engines, gearboxes, shell racks, nothing remotely comfortable and inside its about the size of a large bathroom. It had two 5" shell holes punched clean through its sides caused by German armour piercing shells, the skin is about 3/8" thick and is peeled in and out at the entry and exit points one each side. Imagine being in that thing when those shells "passed" through.:eek::eek:, brown pants time.

Did you see it, any pics?