RB5 360

Does anyone know anything about registering an ex military vehicle for road use?

Would be especially grateful for any information if anyone has registered a FV432 for road use

Also where's the best place to get insurance for a military vehicle?

GC8

An armoured personell carrier? Your local authority will love you; then theyll bill you.....

GC8

I must confess that Ive always wanted a Saracen......

Sprint Chief

The enviro looney anti 4x4 brigade are gonna love you!

FV432 is a tracked vehicle - you won't be hugely popular even with rubber pads they are pretty heavy wearing on the road! They weigh a fair old whack too, which can cause problems...

I think you also will need special training (and licence?) to drive one. They are a little bit tricky to back up, rear visibility makes a lambo countach look easy to park up

DanTheMan

Abbot SPG is my favy, gotta concrete the lawn otherwise they sink in, plus the missus would go ape **** if it crushed any plant pots while manouvering up the drive

GC8

The principal difference being that a Countach cant squash whatever gets in its way..... All of the Saracens seem to have been exported to America now; I'll have to settle for a Ferret if there are any left. You used to be able to buy them for well under £1,000 too.....

David Lock

Get in touch with MVPS or INVICTA (Google) as they are well known Military Vehicle Preservation Societies. They will advise and invite you down to Beltring in Kent for the summer bash. Most of them are mad IMHO but nice mad if you know what I mean

Taff107

You do need a cat H license to drive one (though why you'd want to defeats me!). Archaic, noisy and unreliable does not, a good form of transport, make! - be it for work or leisure!

Scoobychick

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We passed a tank trundling down the A1 a couple of weeks ago with two kids sitting on the top waving

Brendan Hughes

On its way to Deepcut then?

Kellicious

RB5 360, You have PM

Scoobychick

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Gridlock Mikey

Why mess with the ikkle ones, lol, you need Chieftains Loads more fun, granted not very practical but fun to drive. Speak to Bovvy tank museum, see if you can't pick up an old Challenger Driver trainer (Tank running gear but a perspex "cab" instead of a turret) for a few quid. 1200 bhp shifting 40 ton instead of 70, Now that IS fun

After that, it has to be a ferret. I passed my driving test in one of those (Only a B license though) and they are really quite nippy, Jag engine if my memory serves me right 6.3 ltr

Funny really I was Driving 70 ton tanks and armoured cars before I had even passed my A licence The Army Rocks

RB5 360

Thanks for the response.

Me and my brother have got a 432 and only drive it around a field at the moment but are looking to get it road registered for the summer. I think that the driver and the commander both need a H class licence to drive on the road.

GC8 you can still get saracens- there are some in a tender sale at L Jackson & co in the next week or two.

GC8

But can I afford one?

Gridlock Mikey

'Tis true, for road use you do need "at least 2" qualified personnel to operate the vehicle. That includes them being able to drive it.

More safety than anything else as you have already said, you can see bugger all in reverse (Well almost) and also your intercom system needs to be working

RB5 360

GC8 - the saracens have a guide price of £2750 but not sure what they'll go for. Also got a hummer but thats got a guide price of £28000 and they some Centurion and Chieftain ARV's. should we club together and get one?

Gridlock mikey - does the intercom system need to be working for use on the road as we are still trying to get our system to work?

Abdabz

I had a tank last night before I went to bed.... ahh no hang on...