Man shells out £14k on army tank for supermarket run

2006-10-10 11:09:36

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Marlboroman82: Personal philosophy: Clothing optional.; +1,022|6641|Camp XRay

Driver Stephen Ellison keeps bringing traffic grinding to a halt - by going to town in a tonne tank.

The father of one has left other motorists stunned after shelling out £14,000 on a 1974 Sabre light reconnaissance tank.

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2006-10-10 11:11:19

#2

BlaZin'Feenix: I'm just that good; +156|6637|Cork, Ireland

lol

2006-10-10 11:14:19

#3

jamie_v1.1: Member; +35|6520|Leeds, UK

lol, i want one!

2006-10-10 11:17:21

#4

spawnofthemist: Banned; +1,128|6660|Burmecia, Land of the Rain

thats pretty damn cheap for a fucking tank

2006-10-10 11:18:38

#5

_PQWeR_AuRoRa_olly: Member; +22|6528|Surrey, United Kingdom

lmao i saw that in the paper today .. hehe good of you to put it on here

2006-10-10 11:18:39

#6

samfink: Member; +31|6573

" at least he can get a parking space" LOL. yes, I'd imagine he does fidn it relatively easy to find a parking space.................

2006-10-10 11:19:00

#7

SEREMAKER: BABYMAKIN EXPERT √; +2,187|6586|Mountains of NC

whats the conversation rate to dollars on that tank ?

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2006-10-10 11:19:27

#8

ATG: Banned; +5,233|6547|Global Command

jamie your sig is icky.

As for the tank;
I want one. Imagine all the fun in gridlock traffic.

2006-10-10 11:20:35

#9

samhornby: Bo'Selecta!; +14|6569

erm..bout $30-35k??

I read this in the paper today aswell.

2006-10-10 11:21:04

#10

sgt.sonner: the electric eel has got me by the brain banana; +146|6551|Denmizzark!!

spawnofthemist wrote:
thats pretty damn cheap for a fucking tank

I agree..

2006-10-10 11:21:15

#11

jimmanycricket: EBC Member; +56|6673|Cambridge, England

i want one.

2006-10-10 11:22:46

#12

Chou: Member; +737|6809

Stephen's neighbour, Mike Kennedy wrote:
"When we saw the tank we thought it was police coming up at last with a real response in dealing with anti-social behaviour in the town."

Better luck next time, Mike

2006-10-10 12:04:25

#13

{uscm}Jyden: You likey leaky?; +433|6696|In You Endo- Stoke

"It's his hobby and at least I know where he is."
dam it they would always know were you are though,just going the shop... off to the pub with that parked outside lol.

2006-10-10 12:09:31

#14

l41e: Member; +677|6666

$30-35k?! I want a tank for that much - that costs less than a lot of cars!

2006-10-10 12:12:11

#15

WilhelmSissener: Banned; +557|6751|Oslo, Norway

lol, I wan't one too!

2006-10-10 12:12:57

#16

Vartan: Member; +10|6761|Belgium

14k pounds? Not that impressive, I thought a tank would cost more....anyone here can get his own tank after a couple of years

2006-10-10 13:28:39

#17

Bertster7: Confused Pothead; +1,101|6599|SE London

SEREMAKER wrote:
whats the conversation rate to dollars on that tank ?

Approx $1.9 = £1

So about $26-27k for the tank. I call that great value!

2006-10-10 13:33:18

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samfink: Member; +31|6573

although you would have to be careful where you drove it. i can imagine some paranoid people calling the police thinking it can actually function as a tank ( for it to go into private habds,it would have to be demilitarised. AKA, the gun wouldn't work. simplest way to do that is remove whatever holds the shell in the gun, so that it can't fire.)

2006-10-10 13:33:28

#19

PRiMACORD: Member; +190|6643|Home of the Escalade Herds

I would so buy if i could actually drive it here. Seriously.

2006-10-10 13:33:50

#20

MECtallica: Member; +73|6522|jalalabad

XD you'd never have any accidents! The cars would demolish themselves crashing into the thing. dunno about 18 wheelers though, Don't think england really has as many semi's as the US does.

2006-10-10 13:37:15

#21

Hurricane: Banned; +1,153|6648|Washington, DC

Gimme this pimpin' whip over that ol' jalopy any day:

2006-10-10 13:38:12

#22

Miller: IT'S MILLER TIME!; +271|6773|United States of America

I'll take that as my first car.

2006-10-10 13:38:21

#23

[THE] comben: Wee and Biscuits; +43|6551|Cardiff

thats a point would it be road legal in the us?

coz i know some of the wide base hummers and hmv's cant go on british roads.

2006-10-10 13:51:37

#24

FFLink: There is.; +1,380|6709|Devon, England

wow... that is so cool?

when it says the gun is de-activated, does that mean that the turret can't turn?

2006-10-10 13:57:09

#25

Jestar: Shifty's Home Number: 02 9662 8432; +373|6759

It's obviously damn old....

"The tank, which cost £500,000 brand new, was used in Kosovo which is quite different from its use nowadays," said Stephen, who is a road breakdown mechanic for a private firm.

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Stephen's neighbour, Mike Kennedy wrote:

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