Tank driving experience at “Armourgeddon” near Lutterworth

[Tiggr]

My girlfriend bought this experience for my birthday back in January, so after the cycle racing season finished we both went down there to drive an FV 432 (with 30mm cannon turret).
The FV had an “any fuel engine and auto gearbox so very easy to drive with 2 sticks and an accelerator.
This T 34/85 was outside too.

More pics to follow

[AlwynTurner]

Wow sounds great. I've just been given my birthday presie which is a drive at Lutterworth so I will be watching for your pics with bated breath How long was your drive?

Alwyn

[Tiggr]

It's great fun Alwyn.
You get one lap sat in the turret (You can take someone with you for a nominal extra fee - I took Caz, my girlfriend).
Then you get to drive after some instructions from the staff (Wayne was my instructor).
The first lap is with head up out of the hatch, then you can choose to drive with hatch down or heads up - I did laps 2 and 3 with the hatch down.
There is another circuit which goes down to a lower field - a few guys used that, but I don't know what the deal was with that.
All told you are in the FV for around 25 minutes.

My vehicle was named Rosie..........

The overalls and helmet are compulsory.

Caz in front of the T34. There is quite a large indoor museum too, plenty of WWII armour in there, but no Tigers except for an HL model.

I don't know why some of these photos are coming out "Australian", I put them the right way up before I loaded them......is it something a kind moderator can correct ?

[Artyfist]

That 432 look famillier, i got my track license at bovington in one.?
We used them for towing lightguns in Bosnia(1995).

[silversurfer1947]

Not sure about the photos. They come out OK if you click on them.

[c.rainford73]

Wow this in incredibly cool!

[Afrikakorps]

From down here in Australia they look just fine.
Cheers
Steve

[Estnische]

From down here in Australia they look just fine.
Cheers
Steve

Ha, beat me to it!

[HERMAN BIX]

I wax getting used to standing on my head to see them but it was way too hard to get a drink into me as well

[Raminator]

The pictures probably have EXIF metadata embedded in them from your camera/phone. It ordinarily tells the device/computer what the orientation of the image is (amongst other things), but the forum is not clever enough to use it.

Glad you had a blast, Paul. I had a go in an FV432 last year (at Tanks a Lot, in Helmdon) and it was fantastic. I was amazed at how easy it was to drive, far easier than driving a car. I guess the rationale is that if the driver is killed or wounded, any of the infantry in the carrier can climb in and get the rest of them out of trouble without any specialist training.