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Dave.Mil wrote:Flighty

Try http://www.thanksdarling.com/categories ... nk+driving

I'd go for rallying or fast driving or even better evasive driving, there's a lot more "brown pants" factor. Tanks are dirty,noisy and slow and very easy to drive. My missus got to drive a Challenger 1 once and loved it but she enjoyed firing on the ranges better unfortunately I'm no longer in a position to arrange this anymore.

Guess I'll just get me nails done, then.

Jayne x

Flighty. I see you got your WISH, was it a bad day at the Office.



Oh well. always next Birthday.


JWT

Ouch - that brings back bad memories

GD,
If that brings back Bad Memories then there must be some BAD HEADACHES accompanying them. Care to enlighten.

JWT

Oh I've been in a few scrapes like that mate. The worst one was when we hit a WW2 trench hidden in the grass on Salisbury Plain at 25 mph. The panzer stopped dead. I was in the gunner's seat and the gun bounced on impact so the sight hit me square on the forehead and knocked me out. I was saved from serious damage by my helmet. The crew commander had been foolishly holding on to the cupola hatch locking handle and it came down on his napper and knocked him out too - dropping him down on top of me. The driver was knocked out too and the loader dropped like a sack of spuds onto the turret floor but wasn't injured.

Unfortunately there was a fault in that particular mark of Chieftain (Mk 7A) which wasn't known at that time - the traverse gearbox baseplate tended to work loose (we later lockwired the bolts) and ours had been hanging off. On impact it fell off and the traverse pinion (about a foot long) dropped out. The turret then swung on its own accord and as it did so the pinion ripped the hull main junction box off the lower part of the turret, leaving us without electrics.

If that hadn't happened we could probably just have restarted the engines and drove off nursing our sore heads or at worst radioed for help. Not our day I'm afraid, we had to sit there with aching bonces for about an hour before the troop leader's panzer came back looking for us and we were able to get an ARV out to tow us in (and let us plunder their first aid box for aspirin).

That's one of many stories mate. Some of the night time ones are just as good

http://www.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/the ... wrx_1.html

Subaru WRX.... just scratched it tongith so god knows how much its going to cost my premiums at insurance group 19

Great car thou and 1/2 the price of the same Beemer/Audi

GD, Hope you don’t mind me asking, Garage Still STANDING.

JWT.

Sore point mate. Mine is but I did manage to punch a hole in the wall of the REME hangars at Harman Lines, Warminster.

Broken handbrake chain

04 Ducati Multistrada

No mate - it was a MkV Chieftain.

GD, If your going to PUNCH through a wall couldnt think of anything BETTER than a CHIEFTAIN to do it with. Not much left of Hanger

JWT

Cant see the same DEVISTATION with a Ducati, can you

Sorry GD I couldn't see the splash plate.
JWT don't talk to me about devastation, owning a Ducati has laid waste to my bank account.

It wasn't as bad as you'd think mate. My main engine was off and I had no brake power so it just gently rolled down a 20 yard slope and into the wall. I had my head well under the glacis plate by the time it did hit the bricks. As far as I can remember all it did was punch its way through the wall leaving a big dent. No bricks falling down - nothing like that.

Unlike my mate whose fuel solenoid stuck when he was reversing out of the hangar. Totally flattened the B Vehicle ramp

Leigh Dowell wrote:Sorry GD I couldn't see the splash plate.
JWT don't talk to me about devastation, owning a Ducati has laid waste to my bank account.

Who -hooo. somebody who knows what they're on about.

You RAC mate?

Heres our Jed with his new piece of techno



But i think someone ought to tell him the engines missing!