Tank Overhaul - Episode 1 - The A34 Comet

the a34 comet built in 1944 fast well-armed and deadly Britain's best tank of World War II once a symbol of Victory today it's all but forgotten this comet has been hit with high explosives and left to die but now a team of tank collectors are working to bring it back to life [Music] [Music] [Music] on an island in the south of England the Isle of white military history museum is one of the few private workshops where you can go to get your tank [Music] fixed and when it comes to restoring World War II tanks these guys are among the best in the business Dave Arnold is the man with the vision oh am the managing director of the Isle of white military history museum Dave Barnes is his 21-year-old nephew we do sort of a number of things really we do a lot of welding and we take tanks apart and we put back together Bob Darwood is a military historian and vehicle electrics expert you dragged me into this really it's been Daniel ever since they started out restoring tanks for other people since then they have built up an impressive collection of their own including 36 tanks back in 92 to I'd already reached the point of owning the centor the sexon and I had the three comets and at that point I realized that I'm either going to have to do something that's going to make a business out of it or sell up cuz there's no one could afford to keep all those tanks that's when Bob and I sat down one day and said do you reckon we could do it on our own and we just tried to do it on our own their next job is has been on Dave's back burner for 12 years it's a rare 1944 Comet weighing 34 tons the comet was faster than the American Sherman it had thicker armor wider tracks and a bigger gun when they were first issued the Comets were actually given to the crews that came out of Sherman's and the first time they drove them they reported back and said that it was like driving a cross country sports car they were that good cross country various historians look at the comet as probably the best British tank to see service in the second world war this comet has been rescued from an army target range it's been shot at set on fire and vandalized the damage is extensive but because this tank is so rare Dave and his crew think it's worth trying to save at the moment there are probably 12 comets that I know of that are in restorable or are in running conditioned um there are probably no more that will be [Music] restored the plan is to use the parts from three destroyed comets to make one good one they're going to cut out the front end of one and replace it with another [Music] they begin by stripping the interior big [Music] one my chisel with these projects I do a lot of the stripping out um I do a lot of the spraying I do a lot of the sand blasting as well so I do quite a hefty old bulk of it every time we take an old tank apart they're always full of people's throwaways we find wallets always find pop cans Cris packets unusual stuff now what about the things you find in a tank then how about a kitty shoe maybe the crew had small feet sometimes they find original pirates in perfect condition yeah don't to break that that's like that's treasure that is absolute treasure I'm trying people always got in them and vandalized them and one of the things they vandalized is the do indicator for the turret cuz it's a nice instrument looking thing the first thing the kids do is get a brick and smash it and this one was intact so that's really good with the turret stripped out it's time to remove the [Music] gun in order for us to get Kraken on this tank and got to get it apart the first thing we're going to do is unscrew the gun barrel have a quick look he's just seeing how far the barrels come out of the breach that's about eight ring that is that's about eight David now you got the weight of the gun he sliding back into the turret turet so pondering what to do we're going to get like a strop put it around the AR the Boomer and I put it through the end of that so we can sort of pull and as we pull it will support it slightly as well so it won't just [Music] drop when the comet was ordered the British army wanted a tank mounting the 17 pounder gun and 17 pounder was the only British tank gun that could take on all of the different German armor before the comet British tanks were no match for German Panthers and tigers German guns were more powerful and accurate and their armor could withstand a direct hit from any gun mounted on a British tank the British needed a better tank with a bigger gun what had happened was that back in 1942 43 we designed a tank called Cromwell for which a high velocity 75 mm gun was intended by some mess or another they find out when Cromwell is built that it will not accept this gun the solution was to build a new tank with a larger turret to handle the bigger gun the heavy 17- pounder field gun was modified into a 77 mm tank gun this new tank would become known as the A3 for Comet the comet 77 mm gun fires exactly the same round as the 17 pound the only difference is that the barrel tube itself is shorter you could in a sense call it a soff 17 pound the 77 mm would soon proved to be the best Allied tank gun of the war I would expect the comic crew to think they got the best tank in the world in every respect heavier much better armored and just that bit bigger so it could carry a better turret Lar can lovely that lovely I've never tooken that before and it was absolutely dead easy wasn't [Music] it that's as good as the day that was made in [Music] 1944 it's [Music] heavy with the gun barrel removed they go inside to take out the breach ring the breach ring is immensely heavy and the only way you can get it out is through the loaders hatch the loaders hatch is actually specifically designed that the breach ring will just fit through it I'll te Char of it that's £350 or something is it it's like a bow now what do we do then got go down and start why don't we take this off earlier on cuz you can see everything in there now look yeah the breach ring was the heart of the comet's new 77 mm gun it was designed to fire a new type of ammunition that could penetrate heavy armor towards the middle I think of 1944 but Britain had produced a thing called the armor piercing discarding Sabo round new in 1944 the discarding Sabo armor piercing round is still used today to destroy enemy tanks save is for armor piercing makes just a hole in uh the armor and if you hit ammunition the tank probably explode instead of using an explosive charge the Sabo round fires a solid Dart you end up with this incredibly dense Dart of tungsten or depleted uranium which the impact is just frightful and the result horrible the dart travels at extremely high velocity and uses kinetic energy to smash through the armor of an enemy tank today's German Leopard 286 is armed with the most powerful tank gun in the world and when it fires a Sabo round it can destroy an enemy tank 4 kilm away it's uh basically the same Cannon as in the M1 Abrams the only difference is this gun is longer and so you have a higher pressure and a higher speed of of the ammunition for the uh Sab it's 1,650 m/ second the higher velocity means greater accuracy and more power to penetrate [Music] armor but I think basically the the tactic has not changed in so many ways since the the second world war the comet's Innovative gun firing the new Sabo round was the most accurate British tank gun of the war when they designed the comet gun it was known that some of the tank Crews at 1,000 yards that's 3,000 ft could actually land three shells in one square foot so by the end of the war the crews were really really good and they had good reason to be after 9 months development the British finally had a 10 tank that could take on heavy German armor the only question could they deliver enough of them in time to make a [Music] difference for Dave's crew the first phase of the tear down is complete it must way must be about 400 white so that's 500 lb that's what you can do on it got it we're the dog's bollocks we've never done that before and we're marvelous at it it went like a dream yeah none of us got her I've still got all more fingers and thumbs yeah I still got more fantastic phase two get that big chunk out hey Phase 2 starts with the mantlet it has to come out before the turret can be removed in order to get the turret off we have to get the mantlet off and that's probably going to be easiest said and done flat on the back of there don't you break that don't you break it don't you break it Naughty [Music] [Music] Boy the crew at the Isle of white military history museum has made good time taking apart their Comet tank they have stripped the interior and removed the gun and breach ring now it's time to remove the 6 and 1/2 ton turret this calls for some heavy equipment a tank fitted with a crane it's called an arv an armored recovery vehicle when we need a bit of lifting o we break out the arv and uh give things a bit of a pull round with it easy peasy there's more trouble getting out the shed and is using it got right before the turret will come off the mantlet has to go we have to take the mantlet off because there are six or eight bolts underneath the mantlet that hold the turret to the turret ring we've got fairly good lifting equipment we try to use lifting equipment rather than break our backs but every now and again brute force and ignorance is the only way to get some bits out we let let the young ones do that the bolts are seized with rust but Dave has a brand new impact wrench to jar them loose I'm just about to undo a try and undo four bolts that hold the Manet so we can get the manlet off y good luck oh bu it kiss that [Music] out it's was harder putting the tool on than it was taking that out Jesus this gun's on steroids yeah we we got a tilt the Manet now so we can get to the two bottom bols when they're real Rusty [Music] the bolts come out but the mantlet doesn't move don't you break that don't you break it don't you break it nauy boy okay so what can you do then I think you need a Bible yeah Bible there yeah look at the Bible when all else fails Dave consults the original service manuals out the bearing caps that have rusted in for 60 years trunion bearing ring and withdraw the matlet and cradle approximately 2T and that means as Dave consults the manuals Bob records the data plates serial numbers and markings one of the interesting things we'd like to try and do at the Museum is get the individual serial numbers of the vehicles and try and Trace back their histories of unit Etc um this is fairly hard to do in the case of British Vehicles certainly during the second world war um because records fairly sparse according to the data this Comet was built in November 1944 a month later it was sent to the men at the front the original order for the comet was for 1,700 vehicles um that's what the statistics actually say were built but we're fairly dubious that it never ever reached that sort of quantity but there is no actual fixed figures for how many were made the Comets probably the the tank that the British army wanted in early 1944 but it got it in late 1944 December 15th 1944 the men of the 11th Armored Division were issued their new comments but the next morning the German Army launched a surprise attack the Battle of the Bulge had begun the Comets are ready for action but the men have not yet trained how to use them the first units were going to equip with it in late 1944 but they had to abandon the changeover process because the Battle of the Bulge kicked off after Consulting the service manuals Dave has instructions to remove the mantlet yeah all figured out yeah consulted the words the knowledgeable words these wedges as well undo the tranon Caps remove them which is going to take a bit of time but the manuals don't help oh Dave Dave hang on hang on this look at it she's out over there feble pathetic not much soft on yeah want sing [Music] though that ain't going nowhere it's an absolutely really stupid thing to put turret bolts underneath the gun manlet it makes it unserviceable in fi modern tank designers have learned that it's important to listen to your mechanics today's main battle tanks are engineered for Rapid field repair each component is designed to be replaced as quickly as possible jobs that used to take days are now accomplished in minutes the faster the repair the sooner the tank is ready for action it's a a special kind of job where you have to learn to work in a crew uh as a team so all parts have to work together and to keep this machine running and uh work together as a crew with uh with the other guys on the tank I think it's uh it needs a lot of training the crew refus to give up on the mantlet solid we've all that undone the chion bolts we've jacked we've pushed we've pulled we've sworn we've hit we've had dinner Ed [Music] look you're right absolutely F Jack just collaps inside just miss his legs I've got enough of this I'm bored it's a real job oh he gets very stressed out at times and that if two people are stressed out and you're working together like that you've got to just walk away from it have a chill come back to Straight Ahead basically but if the work's important and it's got to be done and that we have to knuckle down and get on with it perseverance pays off and the mantlet finally breaks free I've never been held back by thinking I can't do [Music] it just say that you can do it and get on with it I'm off I think I just lift off January 25th 1945 after 40 days of intense fighting the German offensive had collapsed the Battle of the Bulge was over the men of the 11th Armored Division resumed training in their new com the Tank's speed thicker armor and bigger gun were appreciated by the men and soon they were ready for the final push into Germany with the mantlet gone the crew is ready to remove the [Music] turret yeah yeah it's close enough the turret complete is uh I think about 6 and 1/2 tons we've taken out the gun the mantlet the breach ring all the extra bits there's probably about four tons left now we've got the turret off let's just shove the thing back indoors cuz I about a gut for and I'm shagged out maybe a scrapman the crew takes a needed break because the toughest part of the tear down is about to begin the hardest part of the Comet tear down is about to begin with the turret gone Dave's crew can now lift the engine deck and pull out the engine and gearbox Bob and Ginge are going to tackle the engine Ginge is a retired British tank driver but Bob is a vehicle electrics expert they both know how to fix a tank engine Bob and Jin are going to have a real job to get the gearbox and engine out it's all been underwater and all the bolts have completely rusted away and lost their heads I wouldn't want to do it that's why I'm sending them in there to do it on a the comet was powered by a 600 horsepower meteor engine one of the most powerful tank engines of its day hang on hey you said stop for some reason that's got to be well clear as long as there's no cracks in the blocks and stuff like that we probably reuse that try and take it apart get all Pistons through but after 60 years of neglect this engine is a wreck 66 the water collected in the back of the tank so the gearbox is actually underwater so again all that you can see the state it's in once I've managed to get them out and just involved a lot of hitting it with a sledgehammer as you may notice we hit a lot of things with sledgehammers the meteor engine was built by Rolls-Royce in 1944 the meteor engine is a V12 60° incline um 27 L petrol engine uh 600 H is his output it's a modified version of the engine that powered the Spitfire on a tank the lighter the engine the more weight can be added to the armor in 1944 the lightest most powerful engines around were the gasoline power plants built for fighter PLS and they will go cross country so fast you can get them airball in fact there's a picture in the manual that's got a small small picture of one jumping over a bank and it says this should be avoided MTU fried's Haven makes the lightest most powerful tank engines in the world instead of using a gasoline powered aircraft engine these Engineers have developed a high-tech lightweight desel the diesel technology made such big progress that nowadays Modern Diesel engine like our products are as compact as comparable aircraft engines have been 30 40 years ago one advantage of a diesel engine is that it can produce greater torque at lower speed because only with high torqu especially at low speeds you are able to accelerate the tank as fast as the end user wants to do it at 63 tons the modern leopard 2a6 weighs twice as much as a comet but it can move twice as fast with 1500 horsepower it has enough torque to accelerate to 70 kmph it has the highest power to weight ratio of any tank engine in the world without the resources of a German engine Factory it's going to take Bob and Ginge a long time to fix this engine now the final phase of the tear down can begin first the wheels come off then the side armor is removed to access the suspension when we restore the vehicle unlike some people that would just sand blast and paint the outside of the vehicle we do it properly so we take all the side armor off to get to the suspension and then once we get the side armor off we're going to actually restore all the suspension and check it all out properly to get the side armor off you have to take all of the side armor bolts out the side armor is in five big slabs of side armor so an inch and L thick so what we've just done is we' just taken out all the bolts we can get out easily the next phase is to take out all the counter sunk screws that are really difficult to get out we're heating up the armor plate around the bolt and partially heating up the head of the bolt to expand it to break the rust between the two it's normally a hell of a job the bolts are really really difficult to get out and each of the side armors weighs about half a ton we always try and unscrew them to try and save them because that' be very expensive to have new ones made each plate of armor weighs half a t safety pins are inserted at the top to hold it in place okay uh wedgie WGY wedgie wedgie wedy Wii which one this wedgie or the long that's a lovely looking wedgie wiie okay wakey w W I need my faith trusty assistant Tonto I beat the living out of this one and that one's fell off in fact from now on in you're in charge no I bloody a I am now The Apprentice yeah you're a [ __ ] I'm your [ __ ] hidden treasure in there that's the best we've ever seen one that we've taken apart yet normally they just complete red rust I mean that has still got most of its paint on it still and that there that's the suspension spring case and so is that that is the damper tube that's a comet one that thin one is actually a centor tank one the suspension offers a moment of Discovery this comet has been repaired some time during the war now we've got all the uh suspension out the next job is to sand blast it all and that's a real horrible dirty job and we're going to send young Dave in to do [Music] that as the comet is sand blasted and primed the new front armor is prepped to go on hopefully once it's blasted and primed it look as good as the DAT left the factory maybe even better March 29th 1945 the 11th Armored Division mobilized on the West Bank of the Ry [Music] River 832 men with 28 Comet tanks the invasion of Germany was about to begin for the comet it would be a baptism of fire the tear down is finally complete now it's time to start putting this tank back together that's not good Dave that's not good that is not [Music] good [Music] the crew at the Isle of white military history museum have completed the major tear down of their Comet tank it's time to start putting it back together again they begin with the front armor what we're trying to do is we're trying to put the front of a scrap tank but we've cut this chunk out of into the one that we obviously want to keep problems you encounter is that all these tanks were handmade even though they were made in jigs there was probably a lot of tolerances so the part we're trying to fit doesn't necessarily want to fit in the thing we're trying to fit it into you know there's angles inside yeah they it cuz they fit into each other [Music] look uh as far as I know no one has actually ever tried to repair the front of a comet with using the parts cut out of a Don vehicle I think this is the first time it's been done I think it's absolutely fantastic I think it's the way ago it's recycling see we haven't just restored this we've used authentic parts you could have made the front out of new metal plate but when it was in there it wouldn't look as good cuz this has got all the you know the the marks on it and the aging on it to match the rest of it prob you going to catch that chain yet Dave takes his restoration work seriously because in the world world of tank collecting it's all about the details just spot on where it is each year at the Bingington tank Museum Southwest of London tank collectors gather to show their stuff yeah we thought we come down and show our places yeah and just remind a few people that we still exist you are in a Hardy way on the hidey hole on the way this year features the only running Tiger tank in the world I'm going to wet my pants when I see the tiger I can't wait don't forget we won the war they all forget going to bring the next forward the didn't win besides getting these machines to run incredible attention is paid to the details that make each vehicle authentic authentic it takes time dedication and lots of money for those on a budget there are smaller options but for Dave and his crew the answer was to build their own museum because we had no money the whole place was built on a very very limited budget built the whole thing me Bob DAV when he came from school built the whole lot to get where we are now it's taking us 12 years and no [Laughter] money and this year they're planning to launch their first annual tank show we're going to have a show that's just on our own site and we're going to have uh probably this year be 10 running tanks out on the rough ground behind me and there's going to be uh partying at night time bars food good atmosphere [Music] but before the party that front armor has to go in it's time for the MIG welder MIG welding that's metal inert gas the metal is the feed wire that comes out the middle that can be anything that could be aluminium stainless steel mild steel whatever you want to put through it the armor plate is homogenized rolled armor if you weld this plate with milester wire the welds will crack as soon as they cool down so we have to weld this with stainless steel just like it was originally welded this is expensive stuff it's £ 120b Sterling a roll compared to the m still war is 13B Sterling a roll they don't like welding through rust and they don't like welding through pain so it's going to quickly get in there and just clean around the primer that we've already put on just to get a good well run [Applause] there really we're not really into tank restoration what we're really into is dressing up and all this protective equipment that's what we like doing it's a fetish in order to fit the front armor Dave has to make adjustment brackets the 2-in rolled steel plate weighs almost 3 tons that's it's going to take a few tries before it goes [Applause] [Music] in it's already gone out about people that have got a lot more money than we have that can obviously afford to CH huge amounts of money at this so you're never actually going to compete with them but they don't do it themselves do they if I actually had the money to pay someone else to do this I wouldn't bother doing it it just what's the point it's not a hobby there is it it's no fun at all I can stand back and I can look at this when it's done and think yeah I did that a hobby is something you do yourself and then you enjoy it yourself afterwards that's a hobby yeah this isn't a hobby though but getting paid to do this yeah it's partly a hobby though it's a why of life [Music] right while Dave and Dave work on the front end Bob concentrates on the details Bob is a really good guy but when he disappears down his shed no one really knows what goes on down there wiring tanks is what he does for fun and the comic Cruise tank that's a 12vt DCd system basically similar automatically to most heavy vehicles at the period lately Barb has been restoring the instrument panels just satisfying to take a a smashed up instrument panel and rebuild it back to sort of working order the work is painstaking and requires patience my favorite thing about working on tanks is is the connect to the military history and the the felland them it gives you a real tactile connection to the things you read about and you get a much better idea of what the technical backup that would be required to keep an armored formation in the field Etc and it gives you um a big respect for the men [Music] mandum March 1945 Allied Forces crossed the rine and the invasion of Germany had begun the situation changes dramatically once the rine has been crossed all join in this same mad race to get into Germany as fast as possible probably to head off the Russians coming the other way and to head for our respective areas for The Invasion to succeed the Allies had to move fast it was a new type of war with emphasis on speed and endurance what this meant for the Comet as a almost a a sort of first attempt at battle was long road drives probably at high speed very fast and furious actions and going up against tigers for the first time I think with the success that the regiment enjoyed there you get a tremendous boost the comet with its fast reliable engine and hard-hitting gun proved to be the right tank at the right time but tank commanders would soon learn that the Germans were not going to give up without a fight young men armed with Panzer fusts were waiting to Ambush any tank that came along the single high explosive round could blast through the Tank's armor at short range by themselves tanks were extremely vulnerable luckily the comet could carry backup towards the end of the breakout as the British troops were going through Holland Belgium and into Germany the advance was so fast that the troops grabbed lifts with whatever they could going by and you see a lot of pictures of the Comets with like several you know 10 12 troops all hanging off the back of them just trying to get a lift to save walking I think that was probably one of his most valuable roles by carrying troops Comet commanders were able to prevent Ambush if you've got infantry actually on your vehicle and you run into the sort of situation we talked about where you've got light hand held anti-tank weapons if these guys can Dismount and start moving forward you pity the chat with the Panzer cuz he's then got problems so it was mutually very beneficial what soldiers and tankers improvised in combat has since become a standard tactic of Modern Warfare today the integration of infantry and tank is known as combined arms operations Fort Bliss Texas the Fourth Brigade of the first armored Cavalry specializes in Combined arms operations here the M1 Abrams trains for combat with the M2 Bradley armored Fighting Vehicle the main gun in the Bradley is a 25mm Bushmaster chain gun it's the best gun in the world the Bradley carries a squad of 6 to8 soldiers specially trained for counterinsurgency operations traditionally the tank in in a in a force onforce uh Cold War sort of Engagement the tank was the the punch it was it was leading the fight and it was the combat arm of decision well in an Insurgency where you don't know where the enemy is or who the enemy is and you're in an urban scenario the tank becomes a hunter and the Bradley becomes a killer so uh they complement each other very well the integration of tank and groups has become a lethal combination of Firepower and Rapid deployment in the field oh I wouldn't want to fight in one I wouldn't want to fight in one at all but it all looks fun cuz the engineering side of it and that but when it comes down to having to sit in one in battle and that I to would want do it anyway I've got a big respect for the people used to F them that they done well per honest more than six decades after after this Comet saw action in the battlefield and 12 years of patiently collecting all its parts this Comet tank has finally come together in one piece but before it's ready for action the engine has to be rebuilt the electrics installed and the detailing completed I think it's probably going to take us another two years it's a labor of love that requires patient determination but summer is fast approaching and it's time for the crew to prepare their first annual tank show and this tank show promises to be a [Music] [Music] smash after a long winter summer finally comes to the aisle of white for some it's a chance to enjoy the warm [Music] weather for Dave Arnold and his crew this is the time to take some tanks for a [Music] spin Dave's friend has lent them a fully restored Comet tank and they're going to run it at their first annual tank show it's a perfect day the visitors have gathered they have 10 tanks and guests from the British Army and two cars that are about to make the ultimate sacrifice Bob becomes the Master of Ceremonies afternoon ladies and gentlemen we short be that display at the moment just driving around in the arena for you as a sar armored personnel carrier we are offering rides in this vehicle this afternoon three adult 2 pound for children tickets available at the Museum shop retired tank driver Ginge takes the visitors for Joy rides Dave and Dave handle the [Music] tanks this vehicle's a cold war Warrior Dave Barnes is the master of the Soviet t54 I think it is I think driving the t-54 is his favorite thing about working here he always drives it cuz no one else going to be bothered with it it's a horrible thing to drive and he seems to have mastered it pretty well so we let him drive it then the comet takes Center Stage out of all of them I think probably the com the nicest to drive com is much smoother the gear changes a crash box but when you double clutch and drive it properly you get the gears nice it's nice and comfortable to sit in the suspension is superb it just floats along after the tanks have done their rounds it's time for Car Crushing the land to the sler anybody wants any spare bits Now's the Time to ask Blow by blow of the t-54 versus car well the cars always lose we use the t-54 for crushing the cars because the t-54 has got the strongest track guards that can put up with all the abuse of having the bits of mangled cargo around them we take off the bits of track guards that uh will get damaged and then David takes over and he always does the car Crossing at the end likes to take one slice at a time across the car just to tease the crowd I think really you can just tell the look on his face how much he's enjoyed it he loves every minute in fact he he wouldn't actually let anybody else in the tank to do it so if you said to him can we crush a car no you wouldn't get in there May 8th 1945 47 days after the Comets first crossed the Rind the Allies took Berlin and the war was over the Soviet Army organized a massive Victory Parade through the streets of Berlin it was an opportunity for each Ally to show off their latest tank for the British it was the comet the Americans the new persing but the Soviets had prepared a surprise and the Russians being as you know brilliant show people saved their contribution until last and it is said that at the end of the Russian parade the interen Lindon began to shake and what they saw for the very first time was the stallin tank the ioso js3 the latest Russian heavy tank no one in the West had seen it before 122 mm gun huge wide tracks clattering along three a breast the massive Soviet tanks dwarfed everything in the Allied Arsenal now it is said that the British officer on the saluting dis was seen to turn pale and his jaw dropped and patton who was standing alongside him is reputed to have said out of the corner of his mouth don't worry buddy we're still on your side [Applause] [Music] the comet tank in its hour of victory was already obsolete the second world war was over but the cold war was about to begin and with it a new era of the super tank so I think sort of it did what old Soldiers do the comet just slowly faded away way and then in the early 1960s they were put out onto the British army ranges for target [Music] practice after Decades of neglect the crew at the aisle of white is determined to keep alive the memory of what was once Britain's Finest [Music] tank [Music] the goal is to have four and be the only troop of running second world war tanks in a world not just one Comet but a platoon of four all in running condition all it takes is perseverance and time well a lot in 12 years is we we've moved workshops completely built a museum you know there's only like a couple of you doing it takes 12 years yeah it is it is what I want to do for the rest of my life to be perfect [Music] honest this Workshop is going to be busy for years to [Music] come some wedgies big hammer here we go [Music] [Music] again [Music]

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Keywords: Questar, tank overhaul, tank, military, Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight Military Museum, World War II, British Comet, A34 Comet, British Comet tank, A34 Comet tank, military history, history, allied powers, battle tanks, tanks, overhauling tanks, tank restoration, comet restoration, world history, war history, us history, war tanks

Id: 4kYikoh2uWY

Length: 50min 18sec (3018 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 14 2016