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Old 06-10-2008 | 06:23 AM
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Just saw "Mr. Bean's Holiday" with Rowan Atkinson on TV (not very good really, but acceptable if you like Atkinson which I do). Anyway, a tank or rather a tank destroyer, it didn't have a turret, appears in the movie. It's allegedly German WWII and looked to me vaguely like a Marder III. It was probably some kind of mock-up, but just wondered if anyone with better recognition skills has identified it.
Old 06-10-2008 | 01:06 PM
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I think this was the one in the movie, converted to look like a Sturmgeschütz III, not sure what it is actually though.
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Old 06-10-2008 | 01:31 PM
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I've read somewhere that they make Stugs
out of these



Alvis FV432
Old 06-10-2008 | 01:32 PM
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Oh, looks like it's built on an FV432 chassis.
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Old 06-10-2008 | 01:35 PM
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beat me to it Wozwasnt
Old 06-10-2008 | 05:06 PM
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Thanks. I think that was indeed the one in the movie (at least I got the III right). Based on your and wozwasnt's info, I found this Alvis conversion

http://www.milweb.net/webverts/35854

Also where they appear to hang out in their spare time

http://www.stug-12.co.uk/
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Old 06-10-2008 | 05:16 PM
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They did a better job in smittyrob's first pic as it's got 6 road wheels.

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