A lot of former Belgian AIFV's, Leopards and M109's have already been donated. This is one of the few AIFV's we still have in the museum collection. The idea is to at least have one vehicle of each type in the collection.

Thx. Because we didn't have enough manouvering space between the hangar and the other building - those dummy Hawk missiles were a bit in the way. Sometimes it's easier and safer to unhook and re-attach at a different angle.

🤣Sorry but that really was a Bullwinkle question...

Did Spell Check change your 'terrific' to 'terrible?'

It's actually a Bergepanzer 2. The WHI has the Bergepanzer 2 and the Bergepanzer 2000 in its collection. The Pionierpanzer is still in active use so not yet in the collection.

This is definitely a Bergepanzer 2. The boom would be far too thin for the excavator shovel to be able to carry the weight of the shovel and the weight of the excavated material. That's why the Dachs(Pionierpanzer) has a telescopic arm.

I’m sure they would. It’s unfortunately still a mystery who crewed Minotaur. So far we haven’t been able to find any info on it.

Hi Mike, do we have any of the following: Hull number, data plate - Bronze, Driver's compartment; gun number; do you still have the Gearbox number? Was she always Flemish? What machine gun was fitted in the Hull? I might be able to use some of that info to start tracing her crew. What vehicle documents, if any, do you have please.

@@peterfeeney721 Next time we're there we'll check for numbers. Meanwhile I'll check my image archive if I find something. No paperwork. As Ief mentioned in the video after the Guards used it it went to the Canadians and after that no clue. During the 60-70 ties it was donated to Belgium. We do have an image of it being unloaded at the harbour before being transported by road.

@@peterfeeney721 In my image archive I've already found the following numbers: on the outside of the turret - right side: TP14043 E1105 (the 3 could also be an 8). On the gun breach ESC K and below that 5V5016. On the gun barrel (part covered by the breach): 5CWT-1-10. I'll check next weekend for the hull number plate inside of the tank.

When 80+ years old you are, piep and squeeck you will too ;-). Yes she hasn't moved in a long time also those are steel tracks not supported by top rollers so it indeed makes a lot of noise.

Unfortunately not in running condition and no immediate plans to restore it - though it would be a sight to see this massive beast moving.

@@michaelscaplis haha yes I got my answer as soon as you went inside the turret, glad to see it in the collection tho 👍🏽

The turret wouldn't need to be removed. There is a plug at the rear of the turret through which the gun barrel minus the breach can be extracted.

​@@michaelscaplisI have been trying to find the answer for that for many months so thank you very much :D

@@flogger8413 happy to have clarified

If they manage to get the fuel trailer as well that would indeed be awesome.

Thx for the correction 😉 Weather was indeed perfect for the event.

Having a truck myself which requires double de-clutching I can assure you we did that. Understand that these things are old and who knows how they were treated during their lifetime :-)

@@michaelscaplis Are you sure he was not operating the clutch brake as well as the clutch by pushing the pedal too far down when double de-clutching on down changes? Is the free play adjustment correct?

@@dukwdriver2909 hard to say it's more than 4 years ago. We can't test again as the engine block had suffered a crack while we were preparing the vehicle to take part in the July 21st parade and the Liberation columns. We used the Bedford QLB in its place (which did both the Liberation column North + South without any hickups!).

@@michaelscaplis Great to hear the QLB made both runs successfully. I think the work you guys do to keep this history alive is very important. Sad to hear about the Matador engine block. I do hope you can find a replacement as they used the same engine in many of their bus chassis too. I once saw an external crack on a Cletrac Tractor block repaired by a process called "stapling", if that helps.

@@dukwdriver2909 Thx for the kind words. Unfortunately we're just a small team of volunteers and budget is quite limited. On top of that there are lots of other projects which require our attention. I recall having seen a video on external crack repair so indeed it's possible. These days we get a lot of requests for event participation with some of our cold war vehicles and that's taking up a lot of bandwidth and we're still working on the Churchill mk IV restoration.

Yes we are. Actually we are restoring it and the idea is indeed to make it drivable again.

024, hett was een nederlanstalige eenheid, maar welke?

Memories...

Ik vermoed dat de meeste van de 80 Belgische JPK's verschroot zijn. 70055 staat in Brasschaat, 70042 staat in Ieper en 70061 in Bovington (UK).

@@michaelscaplis spijtig. Er staan erg leuke filmpjes op YT waar er geweldig mee rondgehobbeld wordt.

@@wouterverheyden2486 24/4 is het open deur dag bij Gunfire. Kans bestaat dat je de JPK ziet rijden

We don’t have immediate plans to drive it in the future. Its hydraulic suspension still has an issue. She’s not driving level. But I’ll keep it in mind to film the interior next time we take it out as it’s an interesting layout and quite different from most tanks.

@@michaelscaplis Dude thank you for responding it means a lot. And that sucks the suspension has an issue.