1968 Land Rover Series IIA SAS Patrol Vehicle "The Pink Panther"
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1968 Land Rover Series IIA SAS Patrol Vehicle "The Pink Panther"
The Pink Panther was developed in 1968 for the British SAS. Designed specifically for long range desert patrol, it was based on a standard military Land Rover with a 109" wheelbase. Marshalls of Cambridge were contracted to make the modifications and 72 were built, with approximately 20 survivors. It was designed for 3 crewmen, the Commander, Driver and the Rear Gunner, each getting a private 5 gallon water supply.
It was equipped with numerous modifications to support it role, including:
Custom made long range fuel tanks (total of 100 gallons)
Two mounts for 7.62 GPMG machine guns
12 smoke dis-chargers, 3 on each corner of the vehicle
Wing mounted holders for L1A1 SLR's
Sun compass
Magnetic compass
Searchlights
Grenade holders for each crewmen
Mount for an 84MM Carl Gustav recoiless rifle
Petrol fueled cooker and cook pans
Theodolite and tripod
Pickaxe and two shovels
Sand ladders for getting the vehicle unstuck
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Had only read about it 30yrs ago in SOF magazine, the heat wavelengths rising from the desert floor would obscure the color at a distance. In fact the US 3 color desert camo pattern has a very light pink shade in it. Time proven technology.
I'm glad to see a surviver. I'm building a scale model of one of these for a reconnaissance group build on YT.
Thank you for posting this.
Excellent source for detail as i am building the 1/35 Tamiya model of this SAS Land Rover
Lovely to see one of the Special Air Service Pink Panthers Preserved & Fully Kitted Out ..👍🏻
Swop the 240B’s our for actual L7’s and that is spot on!!! Lovely truck. Well done.
And the ammunition belts are in upside down
Never seen a stuff of nature before that is a real military machine meant to conquer , subdue and rule the wild ruthless love it
The petrol in the extra Gerry can would also be mixed with sand and used to make tea if the hex blocks ran out.
known as a Benghazi Burner
Awesome! I finished high school in '86. Keep an eye out for land rover perentie 6x6 Australian S.A.S. , amazing vehicle and definitely a direct descendant of that lovely mark II.
Great video , thanks for sharing and taking the time to get the story too
The long ‘traction’ railings from aircraft landing strips on the sides are called ‘Marston matings.’
This dudes "Okay." is driving me nuts. He sounds like he'd rather be anywhere on Earth than here, or he just doesn't believe the guy speaking to him.
I was thinking that,he had no interest it.
Thank you very much for this very detailed report. Helps me a lot to create my kit.
Without my wife and my 6 cats coming along, this would be my ultimate vehicle only thing missing is an ice cooler box with beers 🍺🍻
Thing is, you turn-up with a pink Land Rover you'll get a fight.
Luckily, the SAS are in that business.
Finest war machine ever made.
Hi, being part of a BAT unit in Oman 1976/7, I used your rover in and around Mirbat. It had 2 GPMG,s and SLR,s so we only needed 7.62 rounds! (No 50 cal). you need some 58 pattern webbing, and pink tyres, we slug our Bergen's over the side. and as a child I live by the rover factory in Solihull.
Not sure I believe you. I've Never, ever heard an Englishman call aLand Rover a Rover, that's an American thing, especially if you say you were brought up in Solihull. And your English isn't anywhere near good enough for a native of Great Britain.
@@samrodian919 lol, battle of mirbat in oman of aden, i to lived in Solihull and lived beside the banks of the Staffordshire canal.....and drove a jeep..
Beautiful, well kitted out.
You may think you're hard as bloody nails, but ure not as hard as a Pink SAS Land Rover! :) Love it! Cheers lads
thanks, great reference for a plastic modeller.
Wonderful SAS jeep. Excellent video and commentary.
This is not a Jeep. It is a Landrover
@@ataxpayer723
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Loved it all, thank you. May I suggest you buy a microphone sock for your videos. The wind makes it hard to hear. But great video.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
OMG, I would have loved to have been in the SAS during WW2.
Saw a similar one in the Beverley Museum in Yorkshire in the 90’s.
This is my dream car. Too bad it’s difficult to own one.
Waouh! very nice reportage! with many details: very interesting to complete my Pinkie 10FG35
Many thanks!
who dares wins
Sebastien, France
OUTSTANDING
There is one of these Land Rovers exhibited at the Royal Signals museum at Blandford Camp if anyone in the UK is interested.
Even the pink color under the Land Rover
Spot on vehicle. Only fault i can see is the belt for gimpy is upside down.
The Paddy m siciety have several vehicles from ww2.
Building a model of one of these this video is really helpful
Your mainly right for the colour being that way, but not in the day, its painted that colour because it blends in at late evening dusk and night time when the SAS would operate, in the day that would be hidden under netting as it would stick out like a sore rash around the never regions, also sometimes light pastal blue would be camo'd up with the pink in rockie regions..... And wait for those arabian sunsets...'STABILIS', lest we never forget...
Desert pink came about originally in ww2 when the paint on aircraft and vehicles was changed over time by the strong uv light of the desert sun. The LRDG and later SAS found that mixing primers to give this pink shade really made their vehicles hard to see especially in morning and afternoon shadows. This was carried on after ww2 by the Brits in various campaigns in Arabia.
I want one of these so bad…
Precursor to the SAS had their Chevrolet trucks painted in desert pink in World War 2.
a lot of thought and hard won experience went into this vehicle did anyone else notice the flare gun mounted ?
Interestingly I had to visit Hereford as an army logistician in 1984, to prep some items for air portability……we were escorted into a hanger to carry out our task and there was two Land Rover ‘pinkies’ in the corner of the hangar. I can’t recall the age or status of them though.
All killer no filler.....
Wow that wind is horrid on voice.
I LIKE IT!
really good thanks, I learned a lot
ancient battle truck still in use would be nice
Classic
Lord Mountbatten invented it in ww2. It is called Mountbatten Pink.
New SAS Barbie land rover dream car
Half a dozen 66s.
タミヤの1/35スケールのプラモデルを思い出しますね…。
たしかまだ家に未組立の奴を持っている筈
Would have been a long day behind the wheel in that.
Awesome, would you like an image of one of these rolled over during testing? Maybe a person aiming twin .45 guns on it?
i that is an old friend. BB
Varys why it was Pink! We do have a British DESERT Pink paint in the modelling community I'm away to built this model next but have been reading old documents whare the paint wasn't ment to be Pink but what it was mixed with at the time came out Pink! It was a Light stone same as the LRDG apparently but like I said it's only what the roumers are till you dig abit into it the call it UK Rosa Desirto you'll see some old original photos of them with like the light stone more the top with a pink gradient when she fades
I want it
High speed my arse. Improbably drove that beast at some time. Amazing how much bs civvies come up with.
Slow is smooth, and Smooth is fast. LOL, from The Rat Patrol to Delta Force, we've been victims of Hollywood B.S.
High speed is meant to be taken as relatively high speed I think . These machines were not used on normal tarmaced roads because there were not many in the deserts and hilly country of the Middle East . Land Rovers were and are some of the very best all terrain vehicles available . Not only can they get to places a normal road vehicle cannot go at all , but they cover ground quite quickly .... relatively quickly . Land Rovers can be understood to be more like an agricultural tractor with less weight , options for 2 or 4 wheel drive with low and high gearing . The axles pivot on the body centerline and the suspension can move up and down much further than a typical car . They are also made to be fairly easy to fix and maintain besides being quite rugged . Not a sports car quick though !
@@davidyendoll5903 Oh really i never knew that. I should not have driven them on the roads around Hereford.
@@paralogregtif you said chelsea id be calling you a hypocrite, but to say hereford you now look like a sillier one..
@@wor53lg50 Not all of us reading these bs posts are civvy wankers.
Hey! Were is the airbags? 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Fast in and out....not likely Lmao 😂😂😜
Nothing fast about those Pinkies with the full load of kit, ammo, fuel, water and crew in thick sand or uneven terrain..
Those 900x16 tyres helped with the clearance, but was very heavy, adding to the drag...
Those poor 2,25lt engines worked like steam engines..but...
in my opinion, still the best Landy engine ever made.
My ex - Rhodesian military SWB 1960 Sii 2,25 must have done close to, or over a million km's and is still used as a daily and for long holiday or working trips into the mountains or arid semi deserts, fully laden, with a song in it's soul....
It's a love affair between man and machine...
Sorry, I got a bit carried away there 🤭🤭🤭
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DANGEROUS....VERY...SEE THE DIRECT COMMS KIT....YEP👈😃💥
I wonder why petrol and not diesel
land rover did have a diesel not sure when it came out , but it would not have been powerful enough for what they were doing. Almost same size as petrol and no turbo back then. I think they used same block as petrol motor just gutless.
In late 60's they offered diesel engine option in civilian model made by Perkins.
diesel freezes, petrol don't! they were made to operate any were in would. like Norway ect.
There were diesel and petrol engines available . If you really wanted power there was the Rover ( ex buick aluminium block ) V8 ! But Landies were designed to get there , where ever there was , rather than get there quickly .....
The chap gave us a clue at the start!!!! So it burns....and burns quick and well...
Both GPMG have the belt on upside down 🤦♂️
Typical Land Rover. They never went back to a clean sheet of paper. The thing just evolved by bolting bits on or swapping stuff around.
Coool 🤷♂️🤡🤣🤣🤣🤣
considering he has a 1968 model land Rover Series IIA SAS Patrol Vehicle he has not done any research on british army equipment. the 37 pattern webbing was being phased out in 1958 you do not see soldiers wearing 37 pattern webbing out side of 1955. if you do it is for parades or training! do hanging a half completed set of 37 pattern webbing on the side of a 1968 model vehicle is a bit inaccurate!
I joined the Army in 65 and was still using "37" pattern webbing in BAOR in 66-68
paul lehrle most of the special forces had the 58 pattern webbing by then i do believe from talking to a late 1950s to early 1960s SAS veteran. however he did mention that regular units still used a large quantity of 37 pattern webbing.
For SAS should be '44 pattern, but there was still '37 in circulation.
in 1975 I used 58 pattern belt pack and a Bergen, lot off the guys used what they liked
They have no real dress code, or weapons list, it a case of what is best for the job at hand and as long as the ammo needed and the caliber is an off the shelf for easy re-supply like 9mm, 55.6, 7.62 or .338Lap or even AK47 if needed to blend in on the job, the boss desides what goes. The world wide coverage of the SAS raid on the Iranian Embassy was the first time most people had heard the name HK MP5, which was not even a British service weapon at the time, but boy did that PR for HK do that company some good, may be the SAS got free MP5's from then on. The PDW used by a lot of the lads was a revolver, get a miss fire or jam just pull the trigger again no clearance drills needed.
Romans 8:37-39
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
What a useless toy. Way too heavy under powered eye candy. The Dhofar rebellion was by far mostly carried out in the Hadhramaut hills around Salalah which are mostly extremely rough steep sided wadis with few tracks and no roads so these vehicles were useless. Out to the North of Thumrait in the gravel plains of the Empty Quarter OK they could be used but that's not where the action was. Stripped down lightweight Land Rovers and pickups were far better.
Were you there fighting against the SAS? Or in the SAS? Or are you talking about something you know sweet f a about?
@@samrodian919 anti british troll???, thats all they do is troll all british related stuff to spew insult and poison, pretty sad life really when you think about it, instead of doing that all day in their mummies basement they should pull their fingers out and get a bloody job, does make you wonder though if somebody is actually financing these creeps, same as with all these anti this, anti that rallies....