BBC 2 'Working Lunch' visit to Armortek...

Vince Abbott · Post by **Vince Abbott** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:54 am

It took a bit longer than expected but we finally got hold of a copy of the interview carried out by the BBC2 'Working Lunch' team during their visit to Armortek earlier this year.

For those who missed it the first time here it is again, just fast forward through my bit

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Click on the banner above and you should go straight there.

Happy viewing,

Vince.

John Goodman · Post by **John Goodman** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 12:05 pm

Nice one, you can't buy advertising like that,even my Mum was impressed.

John Sander · Post by **John Sander** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 12:59 pm

Very cool Vince.

Anyone seen the mad Australian tank driver yet? Click here to see the BBC coverage. Crazeeee

John Goodman · Post by **John Goodman** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 8:56 pm

Just seen it,looks like it was privately owned, and its an armoured personel carrier, not a tank..tut tut John

Dale jordan · Post by **Dale jordan** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:34 am

Yes it's a Armoured personel carrier . The owner lives in Sydney he brought
two of them from the UK. He then spent $200.000 Aus dollars doing them up . Fake turret and gloss paint .Some sought of fantasy look .The second one was bright orange. The guy would stole it use to work with the owner to restore it. He had a beef with his mobile phone company . So he thought that he would take out the mobile phone towers . The repair bill for the towers and all the electronices is in the millions . Dale.

John Goodman · Post by **John Goodman** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 1:06 am

How long before they ban the private ownership of armoured military vehicles?.Might be Armortek or nothing in the near future.

Tim Bowman · Post by **Tim Bowman** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 4:52 am

Great spot on BBC! Well done Mark and Gill

Boy! and I thought we only had those crazy types in California. About ten years ago a guy stole an M60A1 from a Reserve units storage yard and drove it down the freeway, through neighborhoods crushing cars and stuff.

Hate to see either that or that M113 in my rearview!

Mike Mobbs · Post by **Mike Mobbs** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 1:51 pm

Wasn't that the guy who ended up straddling the central barrier, increasing his knowledge of how tank traps work?

Doug Pinkerton · Post by **Doug Pinkerton** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 6:10 pm

I'm not absolutely positive, but as I recall, once he got hung up, the authorities got the turret hatch open and shot him to death. Some fantasies are better left unfulfilled.....

Alan Hamby · Post by **Alan Hamby** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:09 pm

That's really cool, thanks for posting this. It's nice for us folks over here in the States to get to see the inside of Armortek.

A nice clip.

- Alan

Tim Bowman · Post by **Tim Bowman** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 3:31 am

Doug,

Yep. I was trying to figure out how to tell the end of the story but couldn't put it as eloquently as you did. The officer who finally opened it up had been a tanker as well.

I'll stick with 1:6 scale

Patrick O'Donnell · Post by **Patrick O'Donnell** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:52 pm

Vince and Mark,
Thankyou Vince for making the working Lunch Banner more available.
Mark could I suggest that the Working Lunch Banner is included as part of the Armortek Home page? I think it might help sell even more vehicles to the newer customer and enable those who do not live in the UK to see how the Armortek vehicles perform. Other companies that have had a visit from Working Lunch and have included the Banner on thier home page experienced a dramatic improvement in sales.