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For my own personal use
Posted: Mon 02 Jun, 2003 8:07 pm
by COMBAT WOMBAT
This might seem like one of those daft in the extreme questions. But if the Mod can buy a tank or fighter plane from an arms manufacturer, is it possible for me to buy my own Challenger tank.....for my own use? :vamp:
i realise, i can't get the big gun, but i don't relly want one, i just want the tank seeing as we will spend the forseeable futre fighting THE WAR AGAINST TERROISM (TWAT)
Posted: Mon 02 Jun, 2003 8:22 pm
by Sticky Blue
Course you can... Join up and you can get one for free with a gun and bullets to put in it and bad guys to shoot at and a hat and a radio and people to talk to on the other end and... the list is endless.
Posted: Mon 02 Jun, 2003 8:46 pm
by Rotary Booty
Combat
The only draw back is, they are a bitch to park at Tescos!
Posted: Mon 02 Jun, 2003 8:59 pm
by Skiffle
Wouldn't an Action Man tank be cheeper!
And with the all new improved flahing light's and explosion noise's keep you entertained for longer.
You can always use the exscuse of 'you bought it for the kids'
I did, until someone pointed out i didn't have kids
Posted: Mon 02 Jun, 2003 10:36 pm
by voodoo sprout
I haven't seen a Challenger, but try
http://www.tanksforsale.co.uk/vehiclesf ... thumbs.htm 
. And I don't see why you couldn't buy a Challenger (after weapon and any restriced gizmos are taken out), if there are actually any surplus tanks around.
Posted: Mon 02 Jun, 2003 10:56 pm
by JulesB
Posted: Mon 02 Jun, 2003 11:14 pm
by Sticky Blue
Jules, Top shout... I've just ordered one. I'm paying by instalments and it will be paid for in 69 years so I'll be 98 yrs old when it is delivered. That site is cracking, some outstanding boy's toys on there!
Posted: Tue 03 Jun, 2003 12:17 am
by JulesB
Great isnt it?
I bought my cousin the elastic band gun for Chrimbo. He's a student!
Probably invaluable in lectures!
Theres another one called
www.boysstuff.co.uk that probably has the same kind of stuff...not looked yet!
Re: For my own personal use
Posted: Tue 03 Jun, 2003 1:50 am
by Midshipman786
COMBAT WOMBAT wrote:This might seem like one of those daft in the extreme questions. But if the Mod can buy a tank or fighter plane from an arms manufacturer, is it possible for me to buy my own Challenger tank.....for my own use? :vamp:
i realise, i can't get the big gun, but i don't relly want one, i just want the tank seeing as we will spend the forseeable futre fighting THE WAR AGAINST TERROISM (TWAT)
why not? if uv a few million to spare
which hollywood actor was it who bought a harrier jump jet?
Posted: Tue 03 Jun, 2003 8:47 am
by barryc
Don't know about Hollywood actors but doesn't Jeremy Clarkson have a English Electric Lightning in his front garden, s'pose it beats a gnome sitting fishing from a toadstool.
Barry
Posted: Tue 03 Jun, 2003 1:11 pm
by Artist
Theres a bloke lives about 7 miles from the stately pile who owns an old second hand APC. He lives in it apparently. When he can afford the fuel he drives it around the fields near Carveley on the main Chester road.
I have heard tell that you can buy a working Chieftan Tank for a couple of grand. Or an old Abbot 105mm for even less. Imagine the panic you could cause when pulling up at the local petrol station forecourt and saying "Fill her up mate..... Or else"
Aye Artist
yes you can
Posted: Tue 03 Jun, 2003 3:40 pm
by Chris
well i ain't sure about the challenger but you can get T-55,s T-77,s and a few other the T-55 is around £20,000 the T-77 is around £40,000 you can drive them on the roads with a normal car licence wont be to good on fuel consumption though
Posted: Thu 05 Jun, 2003 4:26 pm
by stinkypinky
T-77 ,never heard of them,T-72 MAYBE.
yeah
Posted: Mon 09 Jun, 2003 1:42 am
by Chris
Yes!! a T-72 thats the one
Posted: Mon 09 Jun, 2003 5:07 pm
by harry hackedoff
The only draw back is, they are a bitch to park at Tescos!
I`d have thought they are a piece of cake to park anywhere you feel like
It isn`t the fuel costs that made me give mine up, it was the maintenance costs. And the new engine every two hundred miles. It spent more time parked on the verge outside me house than on the road