Lee Tank Restoration FINALE!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ต.ค. 2024
- After a lot of blood, sweat and tears we have finally finished our restoration of the Armourgeddon LEE! Over the last few months our team has been working their socks off trying to get the old girl back to her former glory. She will be taking pride of place in our museum over the winter next to the rest of the Armourgeddon collection.
Thank you everyone for the support!
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She looks amazing, great job!
Hey! Its you! Have fun finishing your tank. Love the 2-3 day uploads. Been there from the start
My Grandad drove them in Burma, and this is the first time I have seen inside one. Would love to come and see it one day.
This is a video of a completed tank with paint, guns and it's moving wow great video. I've never seen a completed version of this tank on TH-cam. 👍
Amazing restoration. The M3 had a very short combat career in North Africa,but did a sterling job against the Japanese in India and Burma ,and deserves to be remembered .
and EPIC work in the films SAHARA starring Humphrey Bogart and 1941 starring John Belushi and Slim Pickens
A little more than 6 thousand were made where as Shermans was like almost 50 thousand
Great tank but came too late. Outmatched by the already mass produced panzer 4s.
Fortunately the M4 came out fast
@@badcornflakes6374 t 34s numbered in the range of about 80,000
@@dannymiller3315 The T-34 was produced from 1940 up to 1957 (IIRC, or thereabouts), and the total production spans that period. the 50k or so M4s that were built, were churned out in a span of only three years; by the time the M4 was taken out of service, the T-34 production run was just finishing.
Wow, what a fantastic restoration; you did a great job bringing that old girl back to life! Deep respect for you guys!!
What a dandy! Excellent job, gentlemen. Thank you again for saving such an amazing piece of history.
Brilliant! In Aussie parlance from Melbourne Australia 'good on ya!' great job on reviving a piece of history for generations to come!. Look forward to the next one!.
I really appreciate the interior 'tour.' I've watched several M3 vids, but this is the first one that really gave me a good view of the layout and crew positions.
I love your restoration of an old battle wagon. I simply cannot imagine 7 men in that space! I'll believe it when you demonstrate it. Good work and you and your crew should be proud.
greatest tank movie ever "saraha" staring humphrey bogart and his m3 tank
i like the beast more, t55 or 72 series tank in afgahnstan
There was a remake of Sahara made. Not a bad film.
@John Smith yeah t55 for sure, awesome lookin tank
Lulubelle? Also the M3 Lee in 1941! ;)
Andrew Fischer I only saw partially that film but little I saw I liked it!!
Fantastic job!! Thanks for keeping a piece of military history alive. 👍🏻
Superb job gents. Massive well done
I got it easy, found these four videos in my recommendations today. Congratulations!
This is a late model Lee, with the longer l40 caliber gun from the Sherman and the solid road wheels. Great restoration!
I love the little horn mounted under the BIG horn
Incredible build
Congratulations on seeing it through
Thanks for bringing us along
I caught the last vid first! I'll catch up on them soon. What a grand job you guys have done, terrific. The 'coffin for seven brothers' I believe the Soviet crews called them, very morbid.
Well done ☺👍
This whole restoration series should have 100x more views than it does. Amazing work!
Thanks for saving a piece of history
Thanks for all the hard work restoring this beauty!
Great job! These tanks deserve to be restored and saved. i can only imagine how claustrophobic it must have been during wartime for the crew.
It was a huge tank by early WWII standards. Crew ergonomics weren't as bad as the narration suggests. It was MUCH better that British tanks for instance. Crews liked it, it just couldn't compete with later Panzer IIIs and IVs.
@@jamestheotherone742 I think the M4 Sherman was bigger than the M3
@@badcornflakes6374 It was not. Weight was more or less the same, but the M3 had a MUCH large volume which meant its lighter armor was much thinner to cover it.
@@jamestheotherone742 M4 weighed much more than M3 and M4 was longer. M3 although was taller and wider.
Cool restoration but it would have been nice to see the vids of the actual restoration as it progressed. Cheers!
for a restoration of a T-55 in progres you can follow werkplaatsvlog
Absolutely amazing
She is beautiful....great job.
Great little series and a fantastic job! Can’t wait to watch the next series.
Thank you! We will hopefully post some different videos too as the vehicle wont be with us for a little while!
Glad it wasn't me sitting in the Lee, claustrophobic! Great work guys on what was an effective panzer killer.
Superb restoration of the M3 . The videos of the hard work involved has been brilliant to watch. Top job done to you all
I remember seeing a Lee in a rusting state at the victory show last year and wondered if this was it as this year the same Lee was there but had been completely restored, just realised there where photos of it at the VS at the end👍
Yeah that was us! We just got it finished in time for this years show
Fantastic job! Would love to see her in the arena at next years Tank Fest!
Absolutely incredible! You all have done an amazing job! Other than a Sherman and Tiger, that’s has always been one of my favorite. I hope someday to fly over and get to see it in person. Thank you for showing all of your talent in keeping these amazing machines alive!
Great job! Look like it just rolled off the Assembly line. I just love how derpy the M3s look.
Gorgeous work! Been a great series seeing you guys bring this beautiful machine back to her old glory.
Thank you for watching! We will have another series very soon when we get our next restoration project
Got me to learn how the British use the word 'treat'. (very well) I imagined what it meant, but it's always cool to learn a new use for the word.
Haha no worries glad we could help!
Fantastic work, well done for bringing it back to life, I think desert sand would have been a better colour though! can’t wait to visit again and see it in the flesh. And of course drive one of your fv432’s, a fantastic day out for all the family
Beautiful work.
Very great job!!!!!
Fine job. You Brits are amazing.
Nice work. I hope you are all proud of your hard work.
BTW. I liked the way you called it a prop shaft instead of a drive shaft.
Thank you we really are!
@@ArmourgeddonTanks Cheers from the UK. Beers are on me.
Looks great. Bring it to Texas and you can put a live round through it...
you could up here in NH too..
Kudos for preserving a piece of history
that's that not Oil, thats Rust prevention fluid! automaticly dispensed when running :D
Old British motorbikes had the same design feature. Little wonder the industry died and the Japanese took over.
That's the Self Lubricating Chassis System.
what a fantastic job, b.....y well done
Great restoration job
Great job, any negative comments from others?? Show us your tank!!!
Amazing work!
Excellent work! Excellent series! I always appreciate people who restore the "freaks/misfits" of an era. Then again, the 'Strails I personally know would fit....ehhhhh...that could be taken out of context.😚
Beauty coppah!
Thanks for doing the videos, loved them all!
Thank you for watching! We will have another series as soon as our next project arrives!
Great Job !!!!
Bravo ! Pour votre travail de la restauration.
Oily sherman engine bay = authentic!
Seven man crew! It's small village on tracks. Complete madness. I bet it made a good gun carriage or APC when those turrets were removed.
Great restoration. Would like to see a video after the tracks have been restored with new rubber pads. Not the perfect tank, but the right one to stop the Axis in North Africa
Take care of her
She served me well
Love it......
Beautiful restoration!
The old hag is just dying to go fight... "Come on, blokes, lets go get us some!" You just gotta love these old tanks. 👍
@James T Griffith I'm actually from this side of the big pond, but after seeing what's going on, courtesy of the USMC, I think these old tanks would do pretty good... Considering that the Hummer has a belly like Charmin toilet paper, and the Abrams and Bradley are just above Silly Putty, maybe some old cast steel is right on the money. After all, they did survive the Germans, Japanese, and NoKo... Can't say that much for the newer gen stuff. 😄
Good work
Looks great!
They should have kept some for artillery use. Granted 105mm was better but 75 already mounted and common chassis with m4 and m4a1 was a good idea
A major thing that is missing from the M3 Lee is the commander's machine gun cupola which was vital in giving the M3 Lee it's iconic appearance
In our research we found that the British took them off that's why we haven't added it. I believe the USA kept them though for their 'Grants'
7 guys ....omg, amazing !!!
Sherman had a crew of 5
I am from --USA so I liked it when you said "wings" while we say "fenders". I see underlines here. Maybe that is my windows10. but they did not appear in the final look. :)
this tank was also used in Burma with great success against the Japanese whose tanks were miserable. army people were a bit smaller than in today.
Bovington tank museum doesn't have a FV432 with the 30 mm RARDEN-gun equipped turret , can't you arrange a swap deal :)
we don't even get to see it start up or taken for a spin!
Pretty girl!
If you wanted to keep it early war correct you should have used the wheels that had the holes in them. The cast wheels came later and generally wouldn't have been put on a Lee tank.
That's a huge model.
What's the scale? 1:1?
They should make 1.2:1 scale models for civilians to actually fit in. :-)
👍 👍 👍!!!
Gidday armourgeddon the Aussies have an inventive habit of modifying vehicles in war on the fly then the manufacturers adoubt them . Something to do with being dumped in the middle of nowhere with nothing and building a nation out of it necessity teaches you that .
this is great but what happened to the smaller turret that housed a machine gun on top of the turret.
Very nice....blank rounds? Put some real rounds through those guns
Like driving a billboard into battle.
Excellent work on the restoration, what was the tank on the right ???
Its our Sexton self propelled artillery gun
I thought it was but just couldn't see enough of it
Is this the M3 Lee ( 7 crew ) used in the Aussie remake movie "Sahara" released in 1995. The original made in 1943.
Is the turret one of the reproduction ones Ron fry had made?
How do you get dislikes?? man their are some REAL arsholes in this world. Great job fella's.
A lovely restoration indeed, I I think you did a great job to put it back on the road! But I have two questions for you: the Grant/Lee had the spoked wheels as well the early Shermans, and the " full" wheels was only installed on the later variants of the Shermans, especially after the advance in South Italy and thereby retrofitted on the earlier versions! Is it because it is very difficult to find the spoked wheels? The other question are the padded tracks very worn out, do you intend to replace it?
G'Day Paolo Viti,
I've just watched this episode and the start of episode 1, and he states that they got the Lee from Australia.
Australia didn't get the Lee's until late in the war (the US and Britain had higher priorities - which is why Australia started development of the Sentinel) - so it is very likely that the second-hand Lee's that Australia got were retrofitted with the full wheels.
And regarding the tracks, he states at the start of the video that the only thing that they are waiting for is a new set of tracks.....
Later, Matt
Matthew Wadwell thanks for replying! Now I understand why the Lee was retrofitted with the late "full" wheels as it came to Australia in 1944 quite worn out so it had to be overhauled. A last question: the coming new tracks are "rigenerated" meaning that there is a specialized company that cleans off the rust (like sandblasting? ) and install new rubber pads?
@@paoloviti6156 Good question - I'm curious myself!
Question...
How do you "pull the prop through" to evacuate oil from the lower cylinders?
if my memory serves me right the manual states to hand crank it about 30 or so times over from the back.
@@ishouldgetalif3 ok. I only ask because I had never seen it "pulled through"
When that engine is installed on aircraft. you have to turn engine over several times before you start it to clear oil out of bottom cylinders . do you do the same?
Pretty cool but if this tank was used in north Africa then why isnt it painted in a dessert camo scheme? Also it would have been nice to have seen the radial on the test stand being fired up. Do you plan on shooting live rounds?
Check out our Facebook page there are a number of videos of the engine running on there
Grant/Lees were used all over the place. From the mods, this one probably served in Indo-China. The paint reflects that.
the US didnt paint tanks in sand color just the brits did ( which this is a Lee not a Grant so it likely came from US sources)
this probably was transferred to the pacific theater hence the cupola being removed and a hatch installed and it being painted green
What model of lee is that with just the hatch on top of the turret without the smaller turret with the 30cal on top of that? My Grandfather was in the Desert rats he was in the Grant
Good job!
Isn't the main gun very long for the Lee?
Thats what she said. :)
ah, abandoned M3 Lee to restoration.
personally i think the M3 lee was ugly and useless but the restoration work you did is really good
Where do u guys get the tracks
Can i have the old tracks
👍🛠👏🏻
I have the radio for that tank still in the box. Contact me please.
Incredible!!
If you still have it is there anyway you can show some pictures I’d love to see that
Hi we have only recently seen this message and if it's still available we are looking for the radio
The Russians called that tank "Coffin for seven brothers".
"grave for seven brothers" and if I remember correctly, the tank was rejected for actual combat use by the Russians.
I really want to see it actually move, and hear some engine sound
I want to see the promised seven man crew with hatches down driving. :-)
I hope you have seven people who fit the bill for a tanker: Short and fit or it will be just silly.
I once had the opportunity to enter the crew compartment of a modern Swedish infantry support/transport vehicle (so not an actual tank) and I am not tall, but I am wide, so I barely got through the hatch in a thin summer jacket and T-shirt, much less combat gear, and I quickly forgot about trying out any other station then the one below the hatch, it was claustrophobic.
The tank is more cramped.
How does one get and keep operational artillery pieces in the UK? You would have thought one of the requirements for import would have been to "de-mil" the guns?
im sure as with all governments world wide. file the right paperworks and make sure the right money changes hands for uh "fees"
@@krispybacon9285 No doubt. But it would take a LOT of both to accomplish that in the US. I was just curious about it in the UK, where regulation is even more onerous.
@@jamestheotherone742 i have no doubt that $ in the right hands makes the wheels of bureaucracy move faster.
whether its to a battery of lawyers or in fees and taxes.. as we know even in the USA all the "illegal" items are really just a matter of filing paperwork and getting fees paid. i think the only thing off the table are WMDS. the UK is supposed to be gun free for the most part especially military style repeaters.. yet the ex-host of "Top Gear" UK Jeremy Clarkson owns an AK-47..
Do you plan on replacing the missing commanders .30 cal MG turret that sat on top of the 37mm turret? Also, I noticed some loose bolts in the clutch compartment that look like the nuts are almost off.
the cupola was found to be a bad idea and that hatch was a retrofit
the cupola had two MAJOR issues
1 it filled with fumes form the gun and made the commander nauseous
2 if it was hit by an HV round at the ring it came off taking the top of the commander with it
this tank probably had the retrofit done when it was sent to Australia, as the British Grant ALSO had no Cupola
@@krispybacon9285 Yeah... But it worked so well for Humphrey Bogart! LOL
@@maj.d.sasterhikes9884 TBF Bogart was a man who could inhale a LOT Of smoke and keep going. not a fair comparison xD
@@krispybacon9285 Well, I am going to have to get out my DVD of Sahara and watch that movie tonight. Though I always wondered how the 75mm, 37mm and turreted .30 cal could all shoot at the same time when there was only one guy in the tank, but those are the kind of details you have to ignore to enjoy some movies.
@@maj.d.sasterhikes9884 no he had a partial crew in the tank if you watch it again i think 2 other guys
FWIW the Jim Belushi remake of it is also good if you want to se one in color with a bit better acting and special effects ( not knocking bogarts acting just the hoakey dialogue and script written in those days)
Why was the gun barrel lengthened?
added velocity and range to the round.. this works for the most part in fire arms as well.
thats why you see very few "shorty" sniper rifles ( usually if they are shortened, its to add a suppressor without adding length. best used in urban areas)
Why doesn't it have the extra turret on top of the turret?
It's like a Grant, but with a Lee turret.
its because its an Ex-Australian M3, and the Australian army disliked the little MG turret on top of the lee, so they removed them and replaced them with Grant type hatches
imagifyer if my memory serves me correct the MG turret was very cramped with limited visibility from inside. I suspect,, but I might be wrong as I don't know, that the MG turret had to be cranked around as it might be quite heavy but it would be cumbersome and slow, just guessing....
@@paoloviti6156 That is correct.
@@paoloviti6156 that was part of it, too hard to use for little to no benefit. Also it added to the height of an already tall vehicle, which cause problems with rail transport as it risked the tank being too tall to fit under bridges or in tunnels. The M3 actually couldn't be transported by rail to certain parts of Australia because it wouldn't fit in the rail tunnels
imagifyer thanks for the info! I didn't realize that the MG turret was next to useless and of course it was so tall, but I didn't know that there was danger hitting the electric wires or passing under the bridges. I think that the M 4 Lee or Grant had the dubious distinction of being the tallest tank of the 2nd WW!
Nice work u guys have done with the tank. But for the vid less talking an more Fotage of the restoration would have been better. MfG
Where these tanks better than the grants
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Its funny you can't own guns in the UK , but you can own TANKS.
If I dint know better I would say that was a Grant not a Lee
Nope its a Lee used by the British. The Grant has a larger turret