Up armoring a 5 ton

[kcimb]

Many of the more popular and successful armored vehicles are based off of truck frames-basically custom made armored bodies bolted onto heavy cargo truck frames.

The M53/59 praga, OT64, BRDM2, OT65, Tatrapan, Saxon, Humber Pig, Peacekeeper,piglet, V100, etc are all armoured bodies on truck frames.

The idea came to me as I watched Howe and Howe (pretty cool show, BTW). Weld up a fairly decent steel body, bob the 5 ton frame, and rewire the controls and steering. Perhaps add AC, some bench seats in the back and a decent door in the rear.

Perfectly doable, I think. I've seen some of the engineering done on this site that really impressed me (Baby Hemmt, WGTI in particular) and I think it could be done. The welding part would make it kind of hard and limited to a few, but the idea is awesome none the less.

I had no clue what section this belonged in, but the mods do.

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[eldgenb]

I saw that episode, they made it look easy with there special programs and plasma bed. I would not go that far unless I was being a menace to south central while drinking my juice in the hood.

 

[kcimb]

I saw that episode, they made it look easy with there special programs and plasma bed. I would not go that far unless I was being a menace to south central while drinking my juice in the hood.

Yeah, they had all sorts of cool stuff but this is SS, home of triple redneck engineering. We can do anything.

I designed and built battlebots back in the day for comedy central's TV show using mostly pencils and engineering paper. I'm pretty sure I could design something cool...

 

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