Best Looking Tank

Chieftain was blessed with pleasing curves...



Special forces!!!! :wub:

 

Always thought the comet looks well proportioned. Kev

 

You want a looker, well here she is folks. This was my fave tank for years. Even worked without the tracks on her out the back garden. To day she lies up on her side in the garage attic.

 

I need therapy now. My father gave mine away, with the tracks and everything else

Coincidentally, three lorries bearing 2x Scimitar/Sabre each passed me on the A47 last night. Wonder where they were going?

 

As a purely sexy, "best looking", tank it has to be the Panzerkampfwagen V Panther, externally it looks like it's been designed by and engineering artist. However, it was prone to overheating, the running gear clogging with mud causing thrown tracks or just freezing locked, and a load of final drive problems due to the high amount of torque put through them. Still you can't have everything, just look at Jordan (celebrity not country).

I do like the Conqueror, but what really lights me up is Challenger 2, but these are out of time.

 

I have a fondness for the Churchill (Being a Sapper I loved the 'funnies') so to me the A43 Blackprince is a great looking tank


Finally an 'I' Tank with a decent main weapon !7 pdr.

 

I have always thought this to be a good-looking vehicle, kind of sporty....


Panzer II Ausf. L (PzKpfw IIL) "Luchs"

A light reconnaissance tank, the Ausf. L was the only Panzer II design with the overlapping road wheels to enter series production, with 100 being built from September 1943 to January 1944 in addition to conversion of the four Ausf. M tanks. Originally given the experimental designation VK1303, it was adopted under the alternate name Panzerspähwagen II and given the popular name Luchs (Lynx). The Lynx was larger than the Ausf. G in most dimensions (length 4.63 m; height 2.21 m; width 2.48 m). It was equipped with a six speed transmission (plus reverse), and could reach a speed of 60 km/h with a range of 290 km. The FuG12 and FuG Spr a radios were installed, while 330 rounds of 20 mm and 2,250 rounds of 7.92 mm ammunition were carried. Total vehicle weight was 13 tons.

 

May I vote for the Light Tank Mk. IV?



I once rode on a restored Universal Carrier doing sideslips on a wet cobbled parade ground. Simply lovely

 

And here's a Mk II, but the TC doesn't seem so amused

 

May I vote for the Light Tank Mk. IV?



I once rode on a restored Universal Carrier doing sideslips on a wet cobbled parade ground. Simply lovely

You're right, mate. Got so carried away by the L3 that forgot about its direct nemesis (if by being such a toy can it ever had one ).

 

I am very surprised by all the votes for the Churchill. Always thought it was an ungainly beast but beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If a horse is a camel designed by a committee then surely the Churchill could be the armoured equivilent.
Adam: What is it that you like about the Churchill? I'm curious.

For clean lines and a look of lethality, my vote goes to the Jagdpanther. I know, I know, not a tank in the purest sense but very pretty.

 

Canuck

The Churchill - all marks had a clean look about them - were tough to knock out - even with the 88mm and special 75mm's - could climb most hills - seldom broke down with regular

maintenance - they just kept going - not like the Panther or Tiger which often broke down for little things.....only problem was it's inability to install a larger gun but had it the 17 pounder - would have

been a world beater alongside the Comet or Challenger...

Cheers

 

Tom,
I was responding to the "best looking" title. I've often wondered if the chief designer went on to work on some god awful Vauxhall, Morris and Austin models after the war.
Even a 17 pounder wouldn't have helped the looks of the Churchill. Akin to an ugly man getting his penis extended!!

 

Canuck

That is my point - in my eyes the Churchill was the best looking of them all - but no doubt your eyes were attuned to the latest Cadillac - Lincolns - or the '57 Chrysler with it's upswept rear

wings et al.....BUT the Churchill with the extended 17 pounder would have saved more lives - which was sort of more important in those days - chap called Annagoni designed the mini and I notice it's

still around - as is his fantastic mural of St. Maximilliam Kolbe in the foyer of the Basilica of Padua..you should drop in next time in that area...

Cheers

 

Tom,

I agree that the Churchill was a good Infantry tank and your view about the 17 pounder.

Beauty however is always in the eye of the beholder.

By the way the Mini Auto was designed by Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis.

Regards
Tom

 

TCS-

....and i have ben thinking that it was Annagoni all these years

Cheers

 

From a artistic point and we are talking 1930s 1940s the French tanks of 1940 have a very ArtDeco look to them?