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Had the pleasure of driving one of those around the training grounds in Germany courtesy of the Blues and Royals as a 16yr old cadet... followed by a play in a Chieftain sitting the drivers seat is probably the only time being a shortarse was an advantage
I also did the same in Germany with the army cadets around 1979-80 ish , we stayed with the 3rd 12 lancers for a week was a great week playing in tanks and a few few great flights in a linx helicopter -------------------------------------------------
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I think that's the same type that last year was parked in a side street in the leafy suburban streets of Didsbury - caused proper consternation amongst the thumbed-up-nosed locals (I remember when it was sh*t before it got Gentrified)Steve N | 21MY Defender | 08MY Discovery 3 (history) | 06MY Discovery 3 (ancient history)
Had the pleasure of driving one of those around the training grounds in Germany courtesy of the Blues and Royals as a 16yr old cadet... followed by a play in a Chieftain sitting the drivers seat is probably the only time being a shortarse was an advantage
Interesting you mention Chieftain Tank. You got me wondering if I drove a Chieftain or a Challenger? They all look the same to me! All I can tell you is it was a huge tank, 2 stroke diesel that made a real weird howling sound. Very smoky. Possibly 12 cylinders? Motorcycle gear shift. I sat in a small cockpit at the front looking through a small opening.
Chieftain then - the L60 was two stroke with a very distinctive howl to it (when it's actually running - good old British engineering)I know it's not considered "kind" to say no these days, but no. Just no, ok? And if it's not ok, still no.
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When I was a callow youth of about seventeen I walked my dog past a CVR(T) and its crew who had stopped for a brew before camping there. A few minutes later I had a "get orf my land" encounter with a farmer whilst using a legal footpath. Walking back the way I'd come, I must have looked a bit shaken up because one of the soldiers asked me if I was alright, then told me they'd met the farmer who had been a to them too.
The next day, the farmer's Renault 4 was in the middle of the field atop a stack of straw bales about four high with the doors, bonnet and tailgate all open.
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I wonder if, when he went to pay, he got asked “ did you fill the tank?”
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sitting the drivers seat is probably the only time being a shortarse was an advantage 
was a great week playing in tanks and a few few great flights in a linx helicopter 
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