The UK's Only Lee Tank Restoration- Part 1

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ค. 2024
  • Now the Sexton is complete we are finally aiming to get onto our next long awaited project. In this episode Stuart will be discussing the first stage of the Lee restoration project!
    We will hopefully be posting new episodes as and when we complete major parts of the restoration. We aim to have the Lee finished in roughly four to five months.
    Remember to like and subscribe to stay up to date on everything happening here at Armourgeddon Tank Paintball!
    Check out our website at- www.armourgeddon.co.uk
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  • @yeehaw5122
    @yeehaw5122 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    This channel is literally everthing I’ve ever wanted, a man restoring amazing machines left to rot, props to you man!

  • @muiznawee8905
    @muiznawee8905 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    old tank looks so bad ass..i love the design of all the old tanks

  • @billygillan821
    @billygillan821 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Truly admire theses amazing folk who restore old machines,and get them going for generations come and see

    • @jamesaustralian9829
      @jamesaustralian9829 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't admire the ones who restore completely garbage items. I find them to be on par with that autistic child holding a stick playing with dog poo while all the cool kids are playing baseball, or cricket.

    • @Ohokk0
      @Ohokk0 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      James Australian garbage items as in useless things or as in garbage condition but still cool machines

  • @Ohokk0
    @Ohokk0 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    "this thing gets red hot, it'd be horrendous to sit on"
    _ooo seat heaters_

  • @eTraxx
    @eTraxx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Got to be honest .. this gives me some shivvers thinking of crewing that beast .. and I spent 12 years on the Abrams .. M1 and M1A1 tanks

    • @ishure8849
      @ishure8849 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      There's an opening in the basket turret it has to align with the side hatch , if it is disabled and on fire and not aligned 👎

  • @steve1315
    @steve1315 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good to see the real thing when I visited the other week.

  • @ronsre-creations5289
    @ronsre-creations5289 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That is amazing that it survived all those years "Intact" What is the incredible story behind how it managed to survive so intact. AND how YOU lucked out to resurrect to her to her glory days ! Real Cool !

  • @shane6500
    @shane6500 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That engine is top shelf... Such a wonderful piece of history.

  • @ultranitro437
    @ultranitro437 ปีที่แล้ว

    WOW I have never heard of using a Radial aircraft engine in a Tank! That's Awesome!

  • @birdsoup777
    @birdsoup777 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for your effort and time to do this.

  • @nicholasdiehl7368
    @nicholasdiehl7368 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    She is a beauty just in her rusty state

  • @paoloviti6156
    @paoloviti6156 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Cool as only now I saw your restoration! Just subscribed and looking forward to see your coming restoration! Keep posting!

  • @tompeters6184
    @tompeters6184 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Can't wait to see how this progresses, nice one

  • @tjstiffler3681
    @tjstiffler3681 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great video. Can't wait to see this all the way through. The walk through was great.

  • @ginvr
    @ginvr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Lovely video, please keep them coming!!!!!

  • @philbell7952
    @philbell7952 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you, very interesting

  • @turnaboutshitposter9614
    @turnaboutshitposter9614 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Great Work fellas!

  • @bobkohl6779
    @bobkohl6779 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    American, British and German tanks were all "petrol" except a small number of Sherman's. Sherman's and Stuart's also used radial engines

  • @57thorns
    @57thorns 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love the optimism. The ammo crate is rusted through, but "its all there, just need a bit of smoothing out", and the same goes for everything. I suppose, as long as thing can move at all they are in "pretty good shape".

    • @Cramblit
      @Cramblit 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Also a little sad that we consider that "Good shape". I think there should be more museums of old stuff like this.

  • @iburback276
    @iburback276 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Love tank restorations keep it up it's great work

    • @ArmourgeddonTanks
      @ArmourgeddonTanks  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We will hopefully have the next video up soon!

    • @Surv1ve_Thrive
      @Surv1ve_Thrive 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      May I add my thanks too? I like the presentation style, good insight and a great project. Am already subbed. Best wishes from Sussex.

  • @Wheelchair-Off-roading
    @Wheelchair-Off-roading 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Spot on video... brilliant

  • @c3aloha
    @c3aloha 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great work. I recall the M3 Lee for Spielberg’s 1941 was actually a M7 Priest rebuilt from hull up. Probably only wood.

    • @chuckcribbs3398
      @chuckcribbs3398 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Germans in the show Rat Patrol rode around in M7 Priests with German army markings on them. They figured the audience had no idea they were American tracked howitzers.

  • @ditzydoo4378
    @ditzydoo4378 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    She's a lovely girl that just needs a little TLC... ^_^

  • @kobre1149
    @kobre1149 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    To think that in 50 years there might be videos just like these on our tanks like the Challenger or M1A1 Abrams

  • @RealFudd
    @RealFudd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Same type of tank that Bogart commanded in the movie Sahara, his tank was named Lulu Belle. We sent some of these to the Russians during the war but they didn't care for them, called them a grave for 7 brothers.

    • @remc70
      @remc70 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The ones I could remember from that movie was, Dan Duryea, Lloyd Bridges, Rex Ingram, and J. Carrol Naish

    • @PATRIOTZZ
      @PATRIOTZZ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Just likeT34??

    • @404cheeseburgernotfound5
      @404cheeseburgernotfound5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@PATRIOTZZ yeah but that didn't have a crew of 7

  • @krispybacon9285
    @krispybacon9285 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    i know it had many flaws but there is just something awesome about a tank with friggin cannons sticking out of it everywhere
    not to mention Humphrey Bogart in Sahara with this thing?
    and for you anime fans the first year girls in Girls Und Panzer manning a pink one?
    if you dont love this tank you dont love tanks.. period

  • @nicholasdiehl7368
    @nicholasdiehl7368 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love restoration of old history love it i have seen in war thunder this tank i want to own it so much love it 😀 ❤

  • @davidrossi5443
    @davidrossi5443 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hay!
    That's ours!
    Give it back!!!!

  • @saganich74
    @saganich74 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I hear their going to restore the death trap capabilities of this vehicle as well

  • @sinistercharger
    @sinistercharger 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wasn't that a Lee that used to be at the War and Peace Show with all the Shell Marks where it came off the Range or was it a Grant?

  • @williamclark3671
    @williamclark3671 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hi nice tank

  • @granskare
    @granskare 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    our tanks (USA) were great and were easy to repair :) after the north african desert, they were very successful in Burma .

    • @17njl01
      @17njl01 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      which is why the Sherman imo is one of the top tanks of WWII. Not only was it easy to maintain and repair as you said but also performed their jobs very well

  • @BFKAnthony817
    @BFKAnthony817 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I would had reckoned you guys would have had more of them restored over there, seeing as how we sent tons of them to the British forces in the early stages of the war until we got the Shermans made.

    • @peterwallace1398
      @peterwallace1398 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      A lot got sent to the Asian theater of operations, Burma, some wound up in Australia where this came from.

  • @jamesbigglesworth4677
    @jamesbigglesworth4677 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It reminds me of the M3 GrantI used to drive past on the way to work everyday in Melbourne.

    • @aaronleverton4221
      @aaronleverton4221 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same same, but same. The difference was whether or not it had the cupola and 30cal MG mounted above the turret. He says this came from Oz, so it should be a Grant.

  • @providertheoneonyoutube
    @providertheoneonyoutube 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the barrel/turret looks like a kv2's turret

  • @Ibelieve218
    @Ibelieve218 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    looks just like the t40 body wise

  • @reddyreddy2618
    @reddyreddy2618 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    pretty sure i saw that on a low loader going up the 303 in hampshire

  • @johnsouto5221
    @johnsouto5221 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This looks like a mid or late model, because the tank has no side hull hatches.

  • @rubendejong8640
    @rubendejong8640 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1000 like XD Nice vid dude

  • @verstappen9937
    @verstappen9937 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There’s an M3 grant at the tank museum which is not that different

  • @eddieed_2328
    @eddieed_2328 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    squirt wheel grease on the steel wheels

  • @thelastjuiceblender5915
    @thelastjuiceblender5915 ปีที่แล้ว

    We have one of this tank deserted and abandoned used by the 2nd Div of the British Raj after the Battle of Kohima of 1944. It's sad to see the current state as it is completely abandoned and if I'm not mistaken, there were no engines on it. Just came to know it's called the M3 Lee. Our government should have taken measures to restore it at least to be preserve it in state museum along with the history.

  • @tiaan8551
    @tiaan8551 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i would literally intern there for free until retirement

  • @ImDirtyDan73
    @ImDirtyDan73 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Some chick on tiktok sent me... Liked subbed and commented XD

  • @MondoMurderface
    @MondoMurderface ปีที่แล้ว

    I have to question if welding all those rivots was actually more time consuming than just welding the plates together properly. Maybe the design change would have been more work.

  • @kaboom_booya
    @kaboom_booya 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fun fact: the m3 Lee was the first American tank in ww2

  • @zero-by6ib
    @zero-by6ib 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How much tourqe does the engine make?

  • @tierfuehrer2
    @tierfuehrer2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Please notice that the guys jsut stands at the drivers seat position. Thats not common that a hull is that high.

  • @tagirattana
    @tagirattana 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Looks like the U.S. Grant tank.

  • @jezryllevan
    @jezryllevan 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    M3 Lee

  • @Ucihaist
    @Ucihaist 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    i came here cause 'master milo82"

  • @davidca96
    @davidca96 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Stop gap that ended up working quite well, laid waste to Panzer 3's.

    • @remc70
      @remc70 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It took about 15 months from design to production, and about 5 minutes for the 88’s to turn them into scrap iron.

  • @daylenfick4556
    @daylenfick4556 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Plot twist, it was a grant all along

    • @hevendor958
      @hevendor958 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      *grabs out the Mega AK* (aka the gun that shoots an insanely amount of bullets)

  • @7663
    @7663 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    *leeloleelolee*

  • @justinbelshe
    @justinbelshe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A wireless clip-on microphone would greatly benefit your videos.

  • @wheneggsdrop1701
    @wheneggsdrop1701 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It is a grant I think.

    • @larrywest8046
      @larrywest8046 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Grants and Lees are essentially the same tank, mostly minor differences when the US made the Lee for the UK.

    • @wheneggsdrop1701
      @wheneggsdrop1701 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@larrywest8046 The grant remove a radio I think a removed And person.

  • @BRM202
    @BRM202 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Isn't the UK version of the "Lee" called the "Grant"?

    • @aaronleverton4221
      @aaronleverton4221 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No. The UK used both. The difference is the turret. Lee had a cupola and .30cal MG, Grant did not. However, he says it was sourced from Australia, which only used Grants in WW2.

  • @benuitraalte
    @benuitraalte 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I still need to get a master ace for m3lee.on wot blitz. Lol

  • @smiert13
    @smiert13 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Take your hands from the pockets for good f... sake!

  • @user-lu9di7ku7g
    @user-lu9di7ku7g 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Танк левого фланга. 🤓

  • @lancaster5077
    @lancaster5077 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Banana Armour

  • @jamesaustralian9829
    @jamesaustralian9829 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why bother restoring such a useless sack of shit when you could get a real tank and restore it like Master Milo