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[url= http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/282150971447 ]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/282150971447[/url]

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Posted : 05/09/2016 8:13 pm
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That could be the best camper conversion ever ๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 05/09/2016 8:23 pm
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*Machine gun not included


 
Posted : 05/09/2016 8:34 pm
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No heated wing mirrors?

I'm out.


 
Posted : 05/09/2016 8:37 pm
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No heated wing mirrors?

I'm out.

Why woulsd you have wing mirrors, who cares whats beside/behind you!!


 
Posted : 05/09/2016 8:42 pm
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Saxons are better, can do 70 on the motorway


 
Posted : 05/09/2016 9:02 pm
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Is it a hybrid?


 
Posted : 05/09/2016 9:16 pm
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Love the description for the JCB

Starts and runs well
Drives up heaps okey
digs holes


 
Posted : 05/09/2016 9:19 pm
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I like the flower holders on the front wing


 
Posted : 05/09/2016 9:32 pm
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I like the flower holders on the front wing

You are Oddball, AICMFP.


 
Posted : 05/09/2016 9:33 pm
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They're the bass dispersal units.


 
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They're the bass dispersal units.

You are Aphex Twin, AICMFP.


 
Posted : 05/09/2016 9:38 pm
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I first saw it on a Massive Attack poster in Bristol in the early nineties I think cfh ๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 05/09/2016 9:40 pm
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That wire side basket will be great for the tesco run.


 
Posted : 05/09/2016 9:50 pm
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That wire side basket will be great for the tesco run.

They're for pigeons dafty - every tank has them.

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Posted : 05/09/2016 9:55 pm
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Is there an interior comfort pack?


 
Posted : 05/09/2016 9:57 pm
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The Saracen is cool.
The Pinzgaur oddball cool.
This though. This is sub zero. You wouldn't need roads or cycle routes.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hagglund-BV206-3-0L-Turbo-Diesel-and-parts-/222223087359?hash=item33bd8736ff:g:ZsQAAOSwXj5XGNYR


 
Posted : 05/09/2016 10:07 pm
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[url= http://bringatrailer.com/2009/02/24/swedish-mobile-command-1957-volvo-sugga/ ]Volvo for Sale[/url]


 
Posted : 05/09/2016 10:14 pm
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I remember clambering around inside a Saracen at a Leuchars air show when I was a kid and ever since I've rather liked them.

What happened to this one's turret? I think that Saracens usually had a little turret for their MG, not a cupola.

A bit of Googling suggests that this is in fact the FV 604 Regimental Armoured Command Vehicle, rather than a standard FV 603 Saracen APC. Some FV 604s had turrets and some did not, plus they had different roofs to the standard APCs (those flangey parts aren't there on the APC) and extra storage (possibly for pigeons, if maccruiskeen is to be believed).


 
Posted : 05/09/2016 11:40 pm
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I'd rather have the BV206. Awesome bit of kit. Worked on them for two years. Getting them sideways on the frozen runway in Voss was always fun.

Saxon was great as it was sooooo simple but I'll be glad if I never change another washer pump on them again.


 
Posted : 06/09/2016 9:02 am
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I'd rather have a Stalwart so long as someone else was paying for the petrol and lubes.
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Posted : 06/09/2016 9:14 am
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if maccruiskeen is to be believed

I'm very much to be believed. Pigeons were very much integral to the design of the Tank otherwise you didn't have anyway of telling anyone where you were or what you were doing once you went past the front line. The Mk1 - Mk5 tanks all had provision for 30 pigeons which would be used to communicate back to the command post where there would be a loft in a converted London Bus. Some of the buses still had their civilian paint and adverts for Pears soap on them- many even still had their civilian bus drivers driving them.


 
Posted : 06/09/2016 9:40 am
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After they returned to civilian life, they never again complained about the mess passengers make on the seats


 
Posted : 06/09/2016 9:47 am
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