I want this MILSURP!

I saw a few of these for sale on Crown Assets, but one of the stipulations for buying it was to "de-militarise" it which by their conditions was a 360 degree welding cut though the horizontal middle of the thing, and taking the wheels off.

Basically scrapping the thing.

Man I'd love to drive one of those. Anyone want to buy one together and open a Tank park where you can drive a tank? That's been my dream since JR High.
 
I did my tour of Germany in a Lynx in 1978. We had some fun!
You could tell which villages took a pasting during the war.
In some towns the old men would wave and girls and kids would run alongside. In other towns the old men would just glare at us and the kids would stay indoors.
 
stencollector said:
The Lynx was controlled. One or two snuck out as deals through museums, or the one you see may be part of a museum collection. There were also some from Germany that left the base with a hole cut through each side of the armour. Another batch from Germany were snuck out of the base without the holes. The ones from Germany found their way onto the collector market. A batch of the German ones found their way to Isreal, and were noticed by the Americans on satellite photos. There were only two countries in the world using the Lynx, so it kind of narrowed it down as to which country made the disposal mistakes.
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Say Rob, do you know if that Lynx was a runner when they parked it at McGregor Armoury in Winnipeg? Was it rendered inoperable and sealed shut?
 
fugawi said:
Say Rob, do you know if that Lynx was a runner when they parked it at McGregor Armoury in Winnipeg? Was it rendered inoperable and sealed shut?
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During that era, the lynx all had their packs removed as salvage to be used on the M113s. The McGregor armoury one falls into that category. Seems to me that there was a problem with the local youth climbing in through the belly plate when it first showed up. Those North end kids are a resourceful bunch...if it had an engine it would have been racing down main street on a Saturday night.

I recall seeing a UCR on a used engine that had been sent to Bosnia but was unservicable. We were (and still are) a thrifty army.
 
These APCs remind me of the one that we used at the back of the CF Hospital in Lahr to crush many thousand of outdated morphine syrettes and glass ampoules, war time production from WW2 taken out of the large battle stock on hand if the brigade had gone active. The poor Corp i/c of the APC got s**t as he was supposed to be cleaning the unit for a Saturday morning inspection.
 
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