Thread: Thank Heavens - No Land Rovers.

pinched from darkroastedblend.com

We'll start with perhaps the most interesting - a streamlined armored car: "Built by Skoda in 1923 and armed with 4 Maxim MGs,
this Zelva served with the Czechoslovak police, and weighed more than 7 tons":



(images via 1, 2)


Here is an imposing BA-3 armored vehicle made in Soviet Russia in the 1920s:


(image via)


Vintage Russian armored vehicles, called "broneviki", are still very popular for all sorts of parades:



...sometimes sporting intimidating paint-jobs, like "A God of War"? -


(images via 1, 2)


Some of the old armored vehicles are used for movies, some are left out in the cold in Russian backyards:



(images via 1, 2, 3; bottom right: miniature armored car art installation)
And finally, here are some truly strange, and some very ugly, armored vehicle conversions



(top left image: conversion from 1940, via - right image: is this a pickup truck??)



Read more at Dark Roasted Blend: Impressive Vintage Armoured Cars

Love the phot of the home made one!
Y'know, my Dad was in the Armoured Corps after the Militia, during WW2. One of his jobs was to try and break vehicles- there'd be a few blokes on this Forum more qualified. But- Ill have to get some of his photos of Bren Carries and little tanks (dunno if they went into production) that they were rolling over, etc.