Wow, Sofilein looks like a better version of a Barbie doll. A smart one, who likes tanks! Just amazing, plus unlike other interviewers(Chieftain) she lets Mr. Doyle speak. Just a pure joy to watch and listen to.
Sofi, love your videos . I'm an ol Disabled Army Veteran from the Cold War Era ,serving overseas and stateside ,being a ol Tread Head ...it is really nice to see a young Lady as yourself take an interest in the Armor and Military history these days ...alot of ol Soldiers and history buff are getting in age ...The WWII and Korean War Veterans are leaving us in record numbers...so it is nice to see you in here ,picking up the torch ...God Bless you ...
excellent video. new subscriber to your channel. hilary doyle is the man when it comes to german vehicles. your interest in this stuff is refreshing to see, from someone your age. someone has to carry on when all of us old geezers are gone. i have studied this subject for almost 50 years. excellent channel! please keep going.
Love the video... listening to Mr. Doyle is like listening to my dad talk. I would imagine that being with him would be like enjoying your grandpa talk about those things that he is still vitally interested in, and you share with him.
Thanks for rolling around and showing us all this vintage armor! I grew up with armor stories, as my father drove a Sherman for 6th Marine division in the battle for Okinawa! Including the battle of Sugar loaf hill!
this videos is very helpful , people who work with these things or people who are looking to work with history at times need help too , so having these in depth videos really helps
mike dwyer she is dripping with personality but dam telling her you want to sniff her seat is not the way to make her comfortable with showing/being herself
As always Mr. Doyle does an excellent job in conveying his vast knowledge of military equipment. I didn't realize that any 223's had survived the war and seeing this one was a real treat. Another vehicle that had been stripped clean of most of the internal components, which makes a complete restoration a nightmare. Sometimes you can fabricate look-alike parts (we had to do that to restore an SU-76 using parts from an Zis-3 as a template) but some stuff just can't be found anywhere.
I am 58 and have been studying armored vehicles all my life. I have over 50 models and 100 books. I have been in 1 Sherman Easy 8 tank when I was 11. I am jealous!!!! They need to open these vehicles up to the public, to at the least, to look inside.
Thanks for unique video of a not often covered line of vehicles. Interesting how they had learned to angle the bottom back then for increased protection from blasts.
Awesome to hear more about these less hyped vehicles. Even more so when it comes from the walking "German Armor" encyclopedia himself! The chemistry between the two of you furthers the delightfulness of watching your videos quite substantially too of course. 😍 Aaand I must admit that I always found the Sdkfz 22Xs to be rather sexy vehicles. 😅
I actually got to drive the Collins foundation restored Sd Kfz 222 in a reenactment at the foundation before the museum was built. Its a very easy vehicle to drive.
Love it! God love Hillary Doyle. Reminds me of my late grandfather, albeit shorter and way more Irish sounding. Great work, as always, Sofi. Just don't text and drive the 223!!!
When I was in the USAF we didn’t have too many girls that looked like Sofi,but those that did,they were VERY popular! Lovely woman,that Sofi. And she’s a AFV fanatic! Very rare indeed!
@@craiglangley9224 so wonderfull series allo allo :) Mimi, mischelle, resistance movement, kommunistic partisans, Otto Flick, Smallhausen :D Ingenious characters
Sofi and Hillary and Sofi and the Chieftan make such great combinations. She brings out the very best in them. Enthusiasm and sincere passion meets experience and knowledge. Sofilein's enthusiasm is so infectious and she now knows far more about tanks than 90%+ of us ever will. Talk about having the very best mentors and being the best of students. I'm jealous all round!
She does know a lot and learns more everyday, but hey look at her mentors. Let us not forget the other ladies who are into tanks, but don’t get as much attention cause they aren’t as spunky/perky/cute/etc
You rock! Love how you look at Mr. Doyle, I love the chemistry you guys have. Keep the videos coming truly enjoy Mr. Doyle and appreciate you documenting his knowledge. Not so much for me, but for the future generations. I was telling my friend I have personally known 2 people who actually saw Hitler in person and one of who was in the German airforce during the war..I also know a guy who was in the UK army post war stationed in North Africa fighting rebellious locals, he has told me stories about all the armor stored out in the desert and how they went on for miles. He told me tales about gardening them and getting into shootouts in the desert with this Lee Enfield and his team members using the Brin...it's so long ago, but it's not..Vietnam vets are older now than WWII vets were when i was born..today someone 18 years old has zero idea how real history is
It's nice to see the inside of a 223, we have a replica 222 that we built here in ohio. It's also not like most, where it is built on a VW bus chassis or a Land rover chassis or any one chassis. Ours uses 2 88-98 half ton chevy front axles with a frame in between. It is rear engine, automatic transmission for easiness of building, and it's all wheel drive all wheel independent suspension, and could be all wheel steer. We use a 350 chevy v8 to power ours, she's got some getup and go. LOL, we're also going to build a replica 223 as well.
I'm reading Jentz and Doyle's "D.W. To Tiger I" book these days and wondering how many Tiger models I'd have to own to be representative of them all. They list 35 production line changes between Aug 42-Aug 44.. I wonder which ones are minor and which are major?
I was fortunate to meet a former tank driver (Panthers) who served in the Grossdeutschland Division. One bit of information he casually mentioned is that the radio operator communicated via Morse code with the other tank units. I know they had a throat mike to communicate inside the tank, but I always assumed they verbally communicated with other tanks in the same formation, as we currently do. Was he talking only of a command tank communicating with regimental HQ via Morse code?
Most channels will use a beautiful woman as eye candy to bring in viewers, Sofi is a beautiful woman who brings in tanks as eye candy...love it. As a former paratrooper we only had one piece of armor that was air drop able that we had for support, the M551 Sheridan. I would love to see you do a video on it.
Two Tiger Is. I have an unbuilt Dragon Tiger I Leningrad earliest production one and the Tamiya late production one with the monocular gun sight. I'm not much of a modeler, just a reader/student/engineer.
Great interior view. Not exactly very ergonomic as that steering wheel would be a cast iron bitch to wrestle around. Can't even imagine Sofi and Mr. Doyle doing "oh, bugger! the armored car's on fire." with that kind of arrangement.
Well the "seat" position is the result of the armor design for German light armored vehicles they had studies to minimize the weight of the armor without an decrease in protection and the shape is the thing they came up and the size of the stearingwheel is needed because hydraulic assisted stearing wasn't a used by Germany
If you refer to "works best standing" - that was still common for 1960s set like the SEM25/SEM35 sets used by west germany into the 1980s. Transistors made them smaller and a bit more rugged.
I hope to check out The weald foundation’s version. You look good behind the wheel Sofi. I am losing my mind here. No Overloon, no Tankfest. Bastogne Barracks (december) might be the first open event. Do consider Sofi. That’s where the IS3 resides. They’re also restoring the Houffalize Panther G.
I would absolutely love to make it out to see the Bastogne event! BUT- Tankfest isn't canceled, it's just postponed! www.tankmuseum.org/whats-on/events/tankfest Same with Militracks: www.oorlogsmuseum.nl/en/events/militracks/ These dates won't work for everyone but it's better than no dates!
Sofilein, l hope it will all go well. We’ll have to wait and see how Europe might react to a second COVID-19 wave. I hope things return back to normal ASAP. Meanwhile, we’ll settle for UA-cam 😉👍.
Great video the interior is increadible, and all the functioneary. Mr. Doyle have all the knownledge. But she...ah she is beautiful anyway anytime. Hy from Brazil!!!!!
Few people realize the advantages the Germans had in making their panzer units able to take on larger numbers was that all of their armor had radios and the vast majority of the optics were made by Zeiss. The Zeiss optics were so respected by the Russians that though the remainder of Germany and Austria were ravaged, the Russians were under strict orders not to touch any Zeiss factories, nor were the employees to be harmed.
I just found this channel and damn that smile is contagious. :D Wish just once I could meet a nice lady and have a cup of coffee together while talking about panzers, armored vehicles and artillery equipment... alas, the search continues. On a more serious note, love your content, keep it up!
The two heads per side was for ease of casting so they didn't crack,I bet. Or you could say it was for ease of maintenance,as two heads were easier to lift out of that confined space.
I'm a lucky guy. My wife still looks at me, the way Sofi looks at anything with a turret.
Yep you are truly a lucky one if u get that look I hope it will be the same for me in the future
I'm sure you have a formidable turret as well.
All I have is motherf***** Touret's
Brilliant comment…. Imagine her inside the USS Missouri/Iowa!
Imagine how she looks at her boyfriend 🙄
Wow, Sofilein looks like a better version of a Barbie doll. A smart one, who likes tanks! Just amazing, plus unlike other interviewers(Chieftain) she lets Mr. Doyle speak. Just a pure joy to watch and listen to.
Sofi, love your videos . I'm an ol Disabled Army Veteran from the Cold War Era ,serving overseas and stateside ,being a ol Tread Head ...it is really nice to see a young Lady as yourself take an interest in the Armor and Military history these days ...alot of ol Soldiers and history buff are getting in age ...The WWII and Korean War Veterans are leaving us in record numbers...so it is nice to see you in here ,picking up the torch ...God Bless you ...
excellent video. new subscriber to your channel. hilary doyle is the man when it comes to german vehicles. your
interest in this stuff is refreshing to see, from someone your age. someone has to carry on when all of us old
geezers are gone. i have studied this subject for almost 50 years. excellent channel! please keep going.
Love the video... listening to Mr. Doyle is like listening to my dad talk. I would imagine that being with him would be like enjoying your grandpa talk about those things that he is still vitally interested in, and you share with him.
Thanks for rolling around and showing us all this vintage armor! I grew up with armor stories, as my father drove a Sherman for 6th Marine division in the battle for Okinawa! Including the battle of Sugar loaf hill!
Sofi & Hilary- thank you for your amazing insights into this rare vehicle- staysafe
this videos is very helpful , people who work with these things or people who are looking to work with history at times need help too , so having these in depth videos really helps
Haha sofi in the driver's seat was pure joy haha
@Eric Fapton Well your name fits the comment!
@G Man I don't know she's a little cuttie
mike dwyer she is dripping with personality but dam telling her you want to sniff her seat is not the way to make her comfortable with showing/being herself
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Damn. Her eyes got me hooked.
Agreed, Sofi is so exotic looking.
Mr. Doyle certainly knows his stuff. Thanks for sharing.👍👍👍
Hi Sophi, glad to see you back.
As always Mr. Doyle does an excellent job in conveying his vast knowledge of military equipment. I didn't realize that any 223's had survived the war and seeing this one was a real treat.
Another vehicle that had been stripped clean of most of the internal components, which makes a complete restoration a nightmare. Sometimes you can fabricate look-alike parts (we had to do that to restore an SU-76 using parts from an Zis-3 as a template) but some stuff just can't be found anywhere.
This channel is so good. I like how he shows that things are missing. I was thinking all was there.
I am 58 and have been studying armored vehicles all my life. I have over 50 models and 100 books. I have been in 1 Sherman Easy 8 tank when I was 11. I am jealous!!!! They need to open these vehicles up to the public, to at the least, to look inside.
Your passion for the tankus is awesome Sofi :) Keep it up
Such a fascinating vehicle. This will look amazing restored, hope they can fully restore it and make it functional
extremely detailed description from Hilary Doyle
Thanks for unique video of a not often covered line of vehicles. Interesting how they had learned to angle the bottom back then for increased protection from blasts.
Awesome to hear more about these less hyped vehicles. Even more so when it comes from the walking "German Armor" encyclopedia himself! The chemistry between the two of you furthers the delightfulness of watching your videos quite substantially too of course. 😍 Aaand I must admit that I always found the Sdkfz 22Xs to be rather sexy vehicles. 😅
I really love the German armored cars!
I actually got to drive the Collins foundation restored Sd Kfz 222 in a reenactment at the foundation before the museum was built. Its a very easy vehicle to drive.
Fantastic video. Love seeing internals & engine details. 💥🤓💥
Love it! God love Hillary Doyle. Reminds me of my late grandfather, albeit shorter and way more Irish sounding. Great work, as always, Sofi. Just don't text and drive the 223!!!
Thanks for the video, great interview.
Great channel. Keep these video's coming.
Fascinating! Hopefully we'll get to see it when it's fully fitted out. I love armored cars and halftracks, so many variants!
Super awesome again! My bucket list for one has Sofi rolling around atop a Stug, and I'm there in person!
I LOVE listening to Hilary Doyle!!
Just when I was getting really bored of second world war content on YT this pops up.
Cool video.
Outstanding video and presentation. Thank you!
One of my favorite armored cars in Forgotten Hope mod.
Thanks for the video of the inside, it will really help with my sdkfz 223 rebuild.
I want to see much more of Sofilein. She is sooooo cute.
ya perfect wife
Yes she is!
when Girls in Panzer meets RL
@@pauliegod7269perfect wife may be but isn't she lesbian?
predattak I don’t care ;) but maybe she change, when she meet someone in her type ;)
When I was in the USAF we didn’t have too many girls that looked like Sofi,but those that did,they were VERY popular! Lovely woman,that Sofi. And she’s a AFV fanatic! Very rare indeed!
I' m watching your videos and i' m súper fan of machines of WWII.
Noe more subs... Hi from Argentina 🇦🇷 🤜🤛
More Sofi and her Grandpa in tanks vids, what a way to improve one's weekend! *o7*
I used to ride in one when I belonged to a WWII reenactment group here in California. Wish I could post a photo of me next to it.
you're lucky to meet all these interesting old dudes. They are full of knowledge.
So that's how gruber's little tank supposed to look like.
:D exactly Gruber :D
Good moaning one and all
You beat me to the allo allo reference
@@craiglangley9224 so wonderfull series allo allo :) Mimi, mischelle, resistance movement, kommunistic partisans, Otto Flick, Smallhausen :D Ingenious characters
Technically not, because "Gruber's little tank" is supposed to be based off an Sd.Kfz. 222 because it has the 20 mm auto cannon.
Thank you so much. It’s a pity that such a short video will help a lot with restoration.
Sofi and Hillary and Sofi and the Chieftan make such great combinations. She brings out the very best in them. Enthusiasm and sincere passion meets experience and knowledge. Sofilein's enthusiasm is so infectious and she now knows far more about tanks than 90%+ of us ever will. Talk about having the very best mentors and being the best of students. I'm jealous all round!
She does know a lot and learns more everyday, but hey look at her mentors. Let us not forget the other ladies who are into tanks, but don’t get as much attention cause they aren’t as spunky/perky/cute/etc
Glad I found your channel, definitely subbed
great content, thank you
Not sure how I made it here. That’s great to see young people that still care about these.
The tightness in that compartment when in full uniform would be fun that's for sure! Lol!
It'll be pretty cramped if not... krauted. I see myself out.
Glad that you are on screen .. you provide the yin and yang.
awesome vehicle!!!! Fascinated with this one
You rock! Love how you look at Mr. Doyle, I love the chemistry you guys have. Keep the videos coming truly enjoy Mr. Doyle and appreciate you documenting his knowledge. Not so much for me, but for the future generations.
I was telling my friend I have personally known 2 people who actually saw Hitler in person and one of who was in the German airforce during the war..I also know a guy who was in the UK army post war stationed in North Africa fighting rebellious locals, he has told me stories about all the armor stored out in the desert and how they went on for miles. He told me tales about gardening them and getting into shootouts in the desert with this Lee Enfield and his team members using the Brin...it's so long ago, but it's not..Vietnam vets are older now than WWII vets were when i was born..today someone 18 years old has zero idea how real history is
Всем добра и мира✊👍
Привет из Якутии👋
that man knows his armor thanks for the videos
Great vid! Thank you!
Sofi you look like a natural in that drivers seat!
Stunningly beautiful and so is the vehicle.
For sure
It's nice to see the inside of a 223, we have a replica 222 that we built here in ohio. It's also not like most, where it is built on a VW bus chassis or a Land rover chassis or any one chassis. Ours uses 2 88-98 half ton chevy front axles with a frame in between. It is rear engine, automatic transmission for easiness of building, and it's all wheel drive all wheel independent suspension, and could be all wheel steer. We use a 350 chevy v8 to power ours, she's got some getup and go. LOL, we're also going to build a replica 223 as well.
Just discovered your channel and subscribed. A fantastic video. Will certainly help with the reference material for my model. Thanks for sharing
Sofilein provides some insightful and pertinent questions to the narrative. A great contributor.
Im sure Hillary enjoyed the company in there.
Lovely just lovely 😍
I'm reading Jentz and Doyle's "D.W. To Tiger I" book these days and wondering how many Tiger models I'd have to own to be representative of them all. They list 35 production line changes between Aug 42-Aug 44.. I wonder which ones are minor and which are major?
I was fortunate to meet a former tank driver (Panthers) who served in the Grossdeutschland Division. One bit of information he casually mentioned is that the radio operator communicated via Morse code with the other tank units. I know they had a throat mike to communicate inside the tank, but I always assumed they verbally communicated with other tanks in the same formation, as we currently do. Was he talking only of a command tank communicating with regimental HQ via Morse code?
Nice to see these armored cars getting some attention ! Sofis future commuter vehicle perhaps ? heheh ♥
Tanks a lot!
Do a full inside view of the SD KFZ 234/2 Puma
Could we see a picture of the tank shaking rig? The one they use to get Sofilein out of a tank ;)
I see Sophie found another wheeled vehicle to check out.. Lucky lady gets to play with neat stuff.
This is literally less than 10 miles from my house, never new it existed.
This makes Ford's "Cab forward" design seem sensible and economic.
Where you able to see an 8-Rad? And would you be able to tell me about the starting mechanism?
Great video!
Sofilein is downright adorable!
Such a fascinating vehicle.
Drop dead gorgeous!!!
Sofilein makes all my conversations with other women seem uninteresting
Subscribed
YES ....More Sofilein Please 😁
Absolutely...sure is easy on the eyes
something new like this one comes out in bfV, and now you are curious in the vehicle.
At a later date please go back and get us a full exterior picture view of all four sides.
Agreed.👍
Most channels will use a beautiful woman as eye candy to bring in viewers, Sofi is a beautiful woman who brings in tanks as eye candy...love it. As a former paratrooper we only had one piece of armor that was air drop able that we had for support, the M551 Sheridan. I would love to see you do a video on it.
ua-cam.com/video/PASDcl3SQJM/v-deo.html Here ya go! Glad you dig the content
the veteran is very pleased with the attention )
It'll be cool when all 3 are runners, and able to be in a mobile display.
Nice deutch project! 🖤❤💛🇩🇪
Two Tiger Is. I have an unbuilt Dragon Tiger I Leningrad earliest production one and the Tamiya late production one with the monocular gun sight. I'm not much of a modeler, just a reader/student/engineer.
Sofi,,, adorable 😍😍💯
Great interior view. Not exactly very ergonomic as that steering wheel would be a cast iron bitch to wrestle around. Can't even imagine Sofi and Mr. Doyle doing "oh, bugger! the armored car's on fire." with that kind of arrangement.
Just pantomiming, it seems more like turning a valve handle than a steering wheel. Perhaps a 12 & 6 o clock hold for enough leverage with that angle.
Well the "seat" position is the result of the armor design for German light armored vehicles they had studies to minimize the weight of the armor without an decrease in protection and the shape is the thing they came up and the size of the stearingwheel is needed because hydraulic assisted stearing wasn't a used by Germany
Huge steering wheels where not uncommon in old car. Just look at the VW Beetle for size
Sofi, it doesn't look like your knees would be very happy driving on rough ground in that vehicle.
Truly amazing how "primitive" the radio's where back then. Anyone know what changed that?
These sets would have used thermionic valves; the change was development of transistors and later still, integrated circuits.
Primitive? I thought the german radios was some of the most advanced back then.
If you refer to "works best standing" - that was still common for 1960s set like the SEM25/SEM35 sets used by west germany into the 1980s. Transistors made them smaller and a bit more rugged.
@@hnorrstrom Early in the war they where just like german radar. Later the allies advanced past them
@@mbr5742 Ok interesting thanks.
What a beauty. !
I hope to check out The weald foundation’s version. You look good behind the wheel Sofi. I am losing my mind here. No Overloon, no Tankfest. Bastogne Barracks (december) might be the first open event. Do consider Sofi. That’s where the IS3 resides. They’re also restoring the Houffalize Panther G.
I would absolutely love to make it out to see the Bastogne event! BUT- Tankfest isn't canceled, it's just postponed! www.tankmuseum.org/whats-on/events/tankfest Same with Militracks: www.oorlogsmuseum.nl/en/events/militracks/
These dates won't work for everyone but it's better than no dates!
Sofilein, l hope it will all go well. We’ll have to wait and see how Europe might react to a second COVID-19 wave. I hope things return back to normal ASAP. Meanwhile, we’ll settle for UA-cam 😉👍.
Great video the interior is increadible, and all the functioneary. Mr. Doyle have all the knownledge. But she...ah she is beautiful anyway anytime. Hy from Brazil!!!!!
Bad enough when your head goes in a normal motor lol never mind 4! Scarppys would have loved to get these in a daily basis lol
Germans made some sexy armoured cars in WW2. The Sd.Kfz. 223 is one of my favorites.
Like your hair, sofi ❤️
Few people realize the advantages the Germans had in making their panzer units able to take on larger numbers was that all of their armor had radios and the vast majority of the optics were made by Zeiss. The Zeiss optics were so respected by the Russians that though the remainder of Germany and Austria were ravaged, the Russians were under strict orders not to touch any Zeiss factories, nor were the employees to be harmed.
@2:12 realised they both have the same hair. It's like looking at twins !
normies: that's a cute girl
history nerds: what girl?
Steering wheel would be a bugger if you ran into a ditch or tree straight on.or even a big pothole. Needed an adjustable steering or something.
Not your average woman very respectful and actually interested in learning about the tank
I'm just trying to find me a gal that looks at me like Sophie looks at Hillary 😭
Same
sounds nice
Good luck with that. I've been married 30 years and still don't get those kind of looks.
she's CGI, gotta be
@@jdove6883 thats cause you're not Hillary Doyle :D
I just found this channel and damn that smile is contagious. :D Wish just once I could meet a nice lady and have a cup of coffee together while talking about panzers, armored vehicles and artillery equipment... alas, the search continues. On a more serious note, love your content, keep it up!
I want a sd.kfz.234 video now
ua-cam.com/video/oRQqn3jjdWo/v-deo.html
The two heads per side was for ease of casting so they didn't crack,I bet. Or you could say it was for ease of maintenance,as two heads were easier to lift out of that confined space.