So Caitlin is one of a very, very, very, very, very small percentage of the world that has driven an SKDF 250 and driven a surviving German vehicle from Stalingrad. There might be chance more people gone to space.
Most probably the only woman who has done so that makes her more than likely the one and only one in the World to have done so, Certainly for the only surviving vehicle from Stalingrad. There probably would have been a number of Russian women who would have driven a captured vehicle back in the day back behind the lines seeing as they used women for everything from Snipers to Fighter Pilots and not sure about Tankers in Combat but more then likely bring new T34's to frontline units would have been one of the tasks for Female Soviet troops.
Very cool looking indeed, and then forward eighty years, they drive past a shipping container there in the background and I realize that container is likely more bulletproof than that vehicle... Really fascinati g to watch IT drive around, would be really interesting to see IT out in Streep or rough terrain, looks like IT could pulk through very much
The design of these SDKfz halftracks is the most unique vehicle design ever. Such a fascinating shape that these things had. They were menacing looking even though they were not that tough in terms of armor, but the shape looked almost futuristic for the time.
Their sloped armor was actually very good at repelling incoming rounds. I saw a test between one of these and an American halftrack. Roughly the same thickness, but because of the sloped armor, the German armor was much more effective. Yes, a beautiful design.
You've got to love these German vehicles from this time period. The front of the Star Wars All Terrain Scout Transport (AT-ST) vehicle is very similar to the bonnet and viewing protective flaps of this machine.
Yes! Always I thought those vehicles was nearly one truck size! Now compared to that blue commercial van, seen very small a little bit like the Italians little tanks used in the Africa korps time!
What a nice gentleman Mr.Bushmakow is for letting her drive this awesome rare vehicle !. I believe not so many women had chance to drive this historic halftrack.
It just dawned on me that the shape of the lower part of the box looks similar to what we use nowadays in MRAPS. I do thnk that it was meant to deflect anti-personal mines. But it could also be to protect the troops from debris from the tracks and make the armour bullet deflecting. Awesome, and what a sound! These restorers have made a great job. Really a work of art.
I had one of these, and was pulled over by the cops. I saw one carrying a breathalyser, so I just stayed in the vehicle. They gave up after five hours, and I finished my journey unmolested.
Can't get enough of this vehicle. When you think of all the variants, some equipped with cannons, rockets and Infrared detection lights for nightfighting. And it still looks and sounds awesome today.
Imagine hearing these squeacking around the corner from where you lived. Terrifying and impressive. This is the first time I seen one, let alone a running and moving one! Simply amazing.
It possibly would not be the first time, as, during WWll, both German troops and the SS/Gestapo visited the house I live in. The house belonged to the local mayor, and was a rendezvous, both for locals to listen to British broadcasts, and the local resistance (allegedly). Because of the importance of the house to locals, a large file of its history exists. A nearby villager owns it.
Beautifully restored vehicle, truly a one in a million due to it being a Stalingrad survivor and because its running perfectly. Thanks for letting us enjoy this as well.
That's awesome - surprised how little damage the tracks do to the grass too. I guess it's a lot lighter than a tank but would have still expected them to rip it up. Can only imagine how all the crew back in Carins are jealous of Caitlin now and not just for her glam nails!
When you think about it, tracks are meant to distribute a vehicles mass over a wider area, so they should be expected on equivalent weights to do less damage than wheels.
Thanks for posting yet another excellent video! The SdKfz 250 Motor Halftrack is something to behold and yet to see a running survivor from a major battle is fantastic! Thank you, Australian Armour & Artillery Museum for featuring it!
considering the importance of stalingrad for the entire soviet war, I bet the russians would pay a pretty penny to have the only functional version of their enemies vehicle in their big war museum. Absolute gem, I went to the Bushmakow Restorations website and read the article about this machine, what they found in the first place was literal scrap. Amazing job on the restoration. Looks utterly factory fresh
@@owlie373 Yeah why would we respect nazi Germany when they look at our people as nothing more than dogs living in their “ lebenstraum “. There are many such Russians today who would probably knock your teeth out for even suggesting such a pathetic concept to them.
@@owlie373 now, pray tell, what kind of respect exactly do modern day Russians owe to the Germans after what they did on their land? The German Wehrmacht and SS facilitated the systematic mass destruction of almost every village on soviet land that they came across along with its inhabitants, and kept soviet POWs in open air prisons with no food as the German guards watched them cannibalize each other. And I don’t think I need to get into the horrible things the German army did to their women. Or did you forget this already, and you seriously think, like an utter fool, that the “disciplined and professional german army” did not wage a war of genocidal intent in a crusade for liebensraum, and that for this they deserve respect?
Go Caitlin! What an awesome privilege to get the chance to drive such a rare and such a superbly restored vehicle. Fantastic stuff! And I'm so jealous.
Wonderful restoration. Most enjoyable to hear the actual engine revving up and the sinister clanking of the tracks and drive wheels..... Brings my miltary vehicles books to life!! Thank you so much..... from an ageing fan in Jamaica, West Indies.
*click click click* [halftrack] I died. 🤣 Seriously though, that's amazing. Truly a labor of love for this small community of history and armor buffs to restore and keep these pieces running. Much respect.
For me,I expect any vehicle, especially one from Stalingrad, to have battle scars. I see a very well done restoration ,being a man that has repaired equipment for many years, I can understand and appreciate the time you needed to do this. WELL DONE
I remember seeing a WW 2 documentary about Stalingrad and in the footage shown, early in the battle, was Sd Kfz 250 like this one moving towards the city. So there’s a slim possibility that historical footage of the actual AFV exists and has been seen for decades.
Would have been nice to get Caitlin's view on driving it. Looks like it would drive like a car, but handle like a bus, with the visibility of a horse wearing blinkers.
For the curious, Half-Tracks are just trucks. With rear tracks powered through a differential, they perform just like a bunch of rear wheels on a standard large truck. This German vehicle does have a system to apply some track braking when you turn full lock, but that is just to decrease the turning radius to be less truck like, and more tank like so you’re not having to do big multipoint turns in the mud or forested areas. American half tracks only have a differential, so they’re not quite as nimble in turning. They do have front wheel drive that the Germans do not have, so a bit better traction.
Thats very interesting! I’ve long wondered about how the drive works as it seems less than optimal to depend on front axel steering with so much friction an power coming from the tracks. You’d think it put a lot of strain on the front axel. I read somewhere that in these vehicles (the 250/251s), the track engages/disengages depending ob how much you turn the steering wheel. Is this true?
@@hammmershield If I read you comment correctly I think this machine has levers to brake one track or the other it is not directly hooked to the steering wheel. In the video at 7:16 you can see Dmitry pulling 2 different levers while Caitlin steers. I may be wrong though. It reminds me of my fiberglass VW dune buggy that had 3 levers on the emergency brake one for each wheel to get you unstuck and the center one engaged both for parking.
Cool! Now that one of us Aussies have driven it, means we sort of half own it now, hey? You should say to Dmitry that if he ever considers selling it, Aus Armour gets first right of refusal, yes?? Would look good doing the circuit at an AusArmourFest!!
Those semaphore indicators look like they'd break on the first day of operation, they certainly broke often on my grandad's old Austin. what a crazy fragile thing to have on a military vehicle
trafficators! My parents had a couple of Daimler Conquest cars in the 60's and early 70's, My dad really liked them even though he didn't drive. The first one had trafficators that flicked out from the pillar between the doors each side. Coollest kid in school I was for a time if my mum had to drop me off in the car.
All German armored cars from SDKFZ 221-261 had them, the half-tracks all had them, only the SDKFZ 250 B and SDKFZ 251 D no longer had them. Just look at original pictures and look for them.
The trafficators may seem fussy and ridiculous, but that is the way they did it. It's hard to imagine those surviving the first trip through the brush.
My time in Afghanistan with the Czech Special Forces showed me how warm and polite the people of Czechoslovakia were. The restoration of the half track is amazing!
Another slight correction could be that he is not Czech, but Belarusian who lives in the Czech republic. But Im glad you have fond memories of our soldiers!
@@JasZg Loool you wish buddy. Not to mention that Czechoslovakia was a thing already before it turned to communism, its existence had nothing to do with any specific ideology. And Russia will destroy itself as usual.
@@JasZg Serbian nationalism and supremacism is to blame. They started a war in Croatia in order to dominate the people there and then allowed a full scale genocide and ethnic cleansing to develop in Bosnia-Herzegovina. I’ve been to that country and I have seen the mass graves and the people who lost family. Russia being Russia has a history of ethnic cleansing and genocide, tartars, Volga Germans, the Holodomor and did not stop its Serbian stooges. Here is a reality Serbian Supremacists and their Russian allies thought mass murder is okay. Same happens all over Russia today. The reality is Russia is not fit to rule over others (no one is) but Russia and Serbia lack moral leadership in character. You can not murder to restore a Serbia to 12th century.
@@JasZg Yugoslavia was destroyed because Croatians and Bosnians did not want to live under Serbian domination. In civilised countries, we let people have independence and autonomy and then they come together voluntarily . We don’t want to dominate and oppress. We give freedom. Serbia started committing massive criminal acts against Croatia with a war of domination and then genocide in Bosnia. They attempted to restore a mythical pass of 900 years ago by eliminating human . This is why you Yugoslavia broke up. They can be no return to Yugoslavia, because of the crimes that were committed. Russia, of course supported these crimes as it always places empire and domination above humanity and morality. It will do anything to maintain domination, including encouraging nationalist stooges in Serbia. Czechoslovakia broke up, because Slovak and Czechs wanted to be independent. Only some damn fool would force them to be together. Within the EU they can travel between countries, buy property and work. Within Nato they are safe from Russian aggression, imperialism and expansionism. -Russia, should just let people be free. Russia is not respected. It is despised.
So Caitlin is one of a very, very, very, very, very small percentage of the world that has driven an SKDF 250 and driven a surviving German vehicle from Stalingrad. There might be chance more people gone to space.
I would tend to agree, hundreds have been to space
@@hridgreximp6194 Nobody has been beyond the firmament 😛
Well done Caitlin!!
i believe you forgot a couple very very very :)
Most probably the only woman who has done so that makes her more than likely the one and only one in the World to have done so, Certainly for the only surviving vehicle from Stalingrad.
There probably would have been a number of Russian women who would have driven a captured vehicle back in the day back behind the lines seeing as they used women for everything from Snipers to Fighter Pilots and not sure about Tankers in Combat but more then likely bring new T34's to frontline units would have been one of the tasks for Female Soviet troops.
That is the coolest looking military vehicle I've seen in years
The Sdkfz vehicle series: 250, 251, 252, 231, 232, 233, 234, 221 and 222. They have their own indescribable magnetism.
Very cool looking indeed, and then forward eighty years, they drive past a shipping container there in the background and I realize that container is likely more bulletproof than that vehicle...
Really fascinati g to watch IT drive around, would be really interesting to see IT out in Streep or rough terrain, looks like IT could pulk through very much
And totally useless
This is a very cool looking vehicle indeed! Bet Ukraine could use 3 or 4 hundred of these. 😎👍
Still lighter than most todays suv's 😅
Even after 80 years German armor still looks beautiful.
The Nazis were never lacking in style, right ?
Don't be a dick by inserting a political jab into a comment that was purely made to show admiration for a well built machine.
@prikov1 who's being a dick. The SS uniforms were stylish as all hell. Etc, etc
@@Necromass
Ok first off , you don't know me or what I think...Secondly the commies didn't have cool shit like the Germans..
thirdly...F.U.
Outfits, weapons, vehicles. Points in all categories. @jeffgeldean6537
The design of these SDKfz halftracks is the most unique vehicle design ever. Such a fascinating shape that these things had. They were menacing looking even though they were not that tough in terms of armor, but the shape looked almost futuristic for the time.
They truly are a work of art design wise
Looks futuristic for our time lol
Their sloped armor was actually very good at repelling incoming rounds. I saw a test between one of these and an American halftrack. Roughly the same thickness, but because of the sloped armor, the German armor was much more effective.
Yes, a beautiful design.
Batmobile
You've got to love these German vehicles from this time period. The front of the Star Wars All Terrain Scout Transport (AT-ST) vehicle is very similar to the bonnet and viewing protective flaps of this machine.
WOW just WOW. Never realized how small these machines were. Thanks Kurt for including us.
Different models were sized differently. This is one of the smallest.
This is a mortar carrier, the troop transport variant is much larger, you’re probably thinking of that one.
Compact
Yes! Always I thought those vehicles was nearly one truck size! Now compared to that blue commercial van, seen very small a little bit like the Italians little tanks used in the Africa korps time!
A lot less overweight people back then to drive these things
Thank you Dmitry and ream for this magnificent restoration! Greetings from Germany!
Dmitrys workshop is gold!
Dido from the United States. 👍
Oh great, a Nazi!
What a nice gentleman Mr.Bushmakow is for letting her drive this awesome rare vehicle !. I believe not so many women had chance to drive this historic halftrack.
I don't let women drive ANY of my cars.... they are Bad juju when it comes to driving...
I'd say, he knows how to talk to women....
@@viandengalacticspaceyards5135 Ladies like armor plating
Heck, not so many MEN have had the chance to drive one!
You really think this is the FIRST woman Dmitry has shown around?
I never knew that thing had actual indicator lights.
*This makes me a happy German*
I was pretty amazed by that also lol.
Wtf are you talking about
traffic safety rules must be obeyed, how dare they make a turn and not have the turn signal on? What would the Feldgendarmes have to say...!
What a marvelous piece of German engineering!
Holy crap. Dmitry - that is an absolute work of art. Thank you for preserving history.
How many marketing managers get to say 'I did that.' Dmitry is a very generous man.
What a beauty! And the engine sound… simply amazing!
I agree!
It reminds me of my old 45 harley davidson sound very unique love it
the most badass looking machine I've seen in a while. Looks very advanced for its time.
I can only suggest you go see a psychiatrist.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xxbe quiet and please do not leave Palestine and leave us alone with our fun here..
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xxGo spread your degenerate ideology somewhere else
It just dawned on me that the shape of the lower part of the box looks similar to what we use nowadays in MRAPS. I do thnk that it was meant to deflect anti-personal mines. But it could also be to protect the troops from debris from the tracks and make the armour bullet deflecting.
Awesome, and what a sound! These restorers have made a great job. Really a work of art.
I had one of these, and was pulled over by the cops. I saw one carrying a breathalyser, so I just stayed in the vehicle. They gave up after five hours, and I finished my journey unmolested.
Thats a beautiful vehicle.
What a nice guy Dimitry is, The halftrack was amazing
The engine sound ist just WOW - Thanks for saving this unique part of our technology. Greetings from Germany
I have nothing but admiration for the man that restored this, and keeps it operational. What a fantastic glimpse at history.
What a fantastic piece of military history, the engine sound transports you back in time.
It looks cool and mean all at the same time. The German's made badass vehicles.
Even after 80 years, that is one bad ass looking vehicle!
I can only suggest you go see a psychiatrist. What was the purpose of that machine?
wut? @@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx
you are right, is it the form, is it the color i don't know but something give these old vehicle a really cool and bad ass look.
It kinda looks like something from star wars, a vehicle for stormtroopers or Darth Vader.
@@Ercan-cy3we AT-ST! You're right.
Ein Traum .
So ein Fahrzeug mit dem Hintergrund in dem Zustand .
Absoluter Wahnsinn.
Grüsse aus Deutschland
Was würde ein Sammler für dieses Fahrzeug bezahlen?
@@badschbenza8126shoot something with that history it’d be in the millions I bet.
Gruß aus California!!!
Sehr viel Geld würde ein Sammler zahlen
I don't know what you said, but, Yah !
Sdkfz halftracks are my favourite historical war vehicle!!! Great to know one has survived this long.
Сколько в нём грациозной мощи инженерной мысли, высокого полёта фантазии того времени! Шедевр бронетягач, звук мотора песня!
Can't get enough of this vehicle. When you think of all the variants, some equipped with cannons, rockets and Infrared detection lights for nightfighting. And it still looks and sounds awesome today.
Wow, incredible. What a great group there in Czech republic keeping history alive and sharing it. Caitlin did great.
What a beautiful restored military vehicle. Thank you for posting, and letting us see it.
Now that is an engineering thing of beauty..
Most beautiful vehicle ever
What a beautiful piece of machinary.
Imagine hearing these squeacking around the corner from where you lived. Terrifying and impressive. This is the first time I seen one, let alone a running and moving one! Simply amazing.
It possibly would not be the first time, as, during WWll, both German troops and the SS/Gestapo visited the house I live in. The house belonged to the local mayor, and was a rendezvous, both for locals to listen to British broadcasts, and the local resistance (allegedly). Because of the importance of the house to locals, a large file of its history exists. A nearby villager owns it.
@@mikeconey2164wo lebst du wenn ich fragen darf
"Ready the anti tank rifle comrade!"
My grandfather drove one on the Eastern Front… thank for sharing and great job with the restoration.
А мой дедушка жёг таких как твой дедушка ;)
@@imal5006Sukkeltje
@@imal5006и под сталиным лежал, да?🤣
@@imal5006 🤣
@@imal5006чем сжёг? FPV-дронами?
Beautifully restored vehicle, truly a one in a million due to it being a Stalingrad survivor and because its running perfectly. Thanks for letting us enjoy this as well.
Fantastic mechanism
Exquisite workmanship on this restoration. Your 5 years of hard work has produced a work of art to be proud of. Danke sehr.
Wooow. Awe inspiring piece of history.
The restoration is just.. incredible.
That's awesome - surprised how little damage the tracks do to the grass too. I guess it's a lot lighter than a tank but would have still expected them to rip it up. Can only imagine how all the crew back in Carins are jealous of Caitlin now and not just for her glam nails!
Haha
When you think about it, tracks are meant to distribute a vehicles mass over a wider area, so they should be expected on equivalent weights to do less damage than wheels.
Germans always cared for the environment and people.
@@svenr5235 Aaaw! you made A Funny...
@@D_U_N_EThe current German army Wiesel leaves no visible tracks in grass after half an hour.
Thanks for posting yet another excellent video! The SdKfz 250 Motor Halftrack is something to behold and yet to see a running survivor from a major battle is fantastic! Thank you, Australian Armour & Artillery Museum for featuring it!
Hats off to the person who did the restoration
What an unbelievably beautiful vehicle
considering the importance of stalingrad for the entire soviet war, I bet the russians would pay a pretty penny to have the only functional version of their enemies vehicle in their big war museum. Absolute gem, I went to the Bushmakow Restorations website and read the article about this machine, what they found in the first place was literal scrap. Amazing job on the restoration. Looks utterly factory fresh
I think they just melted it for iron stairs or something else.
If they had one 😂
Nah, there's no such thing as "respect for my enemy" in Russia
@@owlie373
Yeah why would we respect nazi Germany when they look at our people as nothing more than dogs living in their “ lebenstraum “.
There are many such Russians today who would probably knock your teeth out for even suggesting such a pathetic concept to them.
@@owlie373 now, pray tell, what kind of respect exactly do modern day Russians owe to the Germans after what they did on their land? The German Wehrmacht and SS facilitated the systematic mass destruction of almost every village on soviet land that they came across along with its inhabitants, and kept soviet POWs in open air prisons with no food as the German guards watched them cannibalize each other. And I don’t think I need to get into the horrible things the German army did to their women. Or did you forget this already, and you seriously think, like an utter fool, that the “disciplined and professional german army” did not wage a war of genocidal intent in a crusade for liebensraum, and that for this they deserve respect?
Thank you Dimitry for putting your time and energy into restoring this piece of history.
As an American kid watching videos on ww2 this machine is absolutely beautiful. Thank you for restoration and saving a piece of history. 🇺🇸 🕊🇩🇪
Anytime you can restore one of these classic combat vehicles from WW2 to working condition it’s a win for everyone!
Amazing! What a treasure.
Simply beautiful.
Incredible. So many skilled engineers and restorers around the world thankfully
Dmitry is one cool dude!
What an absolutely beautiful piece of German engineering. Wow!
A very lucky young woman!! What a beautiful machine!!
Go Caitlin! What an awesome privilege to get the chance to drive such a rare and such a superbly restored vehicle. Fantastic stuff! And I'm so jealous.
Wonderful restoration, wow. Glad Caitlin got to drive the halftrack. Her joy in the end at driving it is there for all too see.
Dmitry seems like such a genuinely good person. And he has a true piece of history. Such a wonderful video!!!
What a cool armoured vehicle!...
Dazzling restoration of an amazing vehicle.
Wonderful restoration. Most enjoyable to hear the actual engine revving up and the sinister clanking of the tracks and drive wheels..... Brings my miltary vehicles books to life!! Thank you so much..... from an ageing fan in Jamaica, West Indies.
Wow, what an awesome vehicle! Respect to the guys who have put heart and soul into restoring this iconic half track.
What a beautiful video and a stunning vehicle. "If it looks right, it is right", and this thing just looks so right!
You got to love those indicator lens and lighting...this is a beautiful vehicle and restoration. Also a surviving Stalingrad vehicle thats insane😎🇦🇺👌
German vehicles of WW2 always looked so sharp and edgey
VW Typ 87?
Dmitry, the restoration is top notch work. History saved and restored... Good job. Salute!!!
*click click click* [halftrack] I died. 🤣 Seriously though, that's amazing. Truly a labor of love for this small community of history and armor buffs to restore and keep these pieces running. Much respect.
Aaaamazzzing. To hear the old beast run was even more amazing. Thanks! Wow.
What a priceless vehicle. Totally beautiful.
Wow 😮 it’s like going back in time…like seeing the past come back to life.
For me,I expect any vehicle, especially one from Stalingrad, to have battle scars.
I see a very well done restoration ,being a man that has repaired equipment for many years, I can understand and appreciate the time you needed to do this.
WELL DONE
I remember seeing a WW 2 documentary about Stalingrad and in the footage shown, early in the battle, was Sd Kfz 250 like this one moving towards the city. So there’s a slim possibility that historical footage of the actual AFV exists and has been seen for decades.
One very lucky lady the chance to drive such a rare vehicle thank you so very much for sharing your fantastic experience
Extraordinary! Thanks. Greetings from Germany!
Wonderful machine.
Would have been nice to get Caitlin's view on driving it. Looks like it would drive like a car, but handle like a bus, with the visibility of a horse wearing blinkers.
And there is a fine example of trust!
In UK it would be behind barriers and looked at from 50ft away only!
Fantastic vid thanks to all.
That's not a quite fair comment.
Bovington runs a lot of older vehicles and tanks each year 2x
@@junkers66 tosh!
Its amazing how form follows function, its menacing, but what a stunning vehicle
What a beautiful machine... so well restored!
Beautiful machine
What a vehicle and an amazing experience to have in the bag. So very lucky 👍
That is incredible. It still has all of the little bits and bobs as well. Like that base plate for the mortar that was hanging off of the back.
Very nice video, and very brave owner of this historic gem!😊
Beautiful 😮
What a majestic vehicle
Turn signal flags are similar in design to the ones found in post-war vehicles. Too cool!
Spectacular!
....I once had a 1950 Austin which had the same kind of signals...
For the curious, Half-Tracks are just trucks. With rear tracks powered through a differential, they perform just like a bunch of rear wheels on a standard large truck. This German vehicle does have a system to apply some track braking when you turn full lock, but that is just to decrease the turning radius to be less truck like, and more tank like so you’re not having to do big multipoint turns in the mud or forested areas. American half tracks only have a differential, so they’re not quite as nimble in turning. They do have front wheel drive that the Germans do not have, so a bit better traction.
Thats very interesting! I’ve long wondered about how the drive works as it seems less than optimal to depend on front axel steering with so much friction an power coming from the tracks. You’d think it put a lot of strain on the front axel. I read somewhere that in these vehicles (the 250/251s), the track engages/disengages depending ob how much you turn the steering wheel. Is this true?
Reading your post again, I see that it is exactly what tou explained.
@@hammmershield If I read you comment correctly I think this machine has levers to brake one track or the other it is not directly hooked to the steering wheel. In the video at 7:16 you can see Dmitry pulling 2 different levers while Caitlin steers. I may be wrong though. It reminds me of my fiberglass VW dune buggy that had 3 levers on the emergency brake one for each wheel to get you unstuck and the center one engaged both for parking.
Nice Vehicle😍 Greetings from Germany
we save your beautiful history.
@@migaudiblenofourdigitbullshit umm I would call it beautiful history.... But the vehicles are definitely cool!
@@avixs1543 It is a beautiful history, there is thousands of years of German history outside of the small period between 1933-1945.
@@SaintThomasAquinas1 Well I was refeering to this history behind the vehicle in question not the whole of germany's history.
@@avixs1543 Just a Reminder: The german History is not only the WW2 Period.
Beautiful piece of machinery. 👍
She did great! Awesome vehicle and the steering looks surprisingly responsive and precise. I didn’t expect this.
True. I didn't expect it to be so smooth. Was surprised by how short it is.
What an absolutely gorgeous machine and what an incredible restoration. Kudos to Bushmakow - you guys are masters of your craft.
Unbelievable engineering!!!!!
wooo that was so impressed I wish I can drive some day thank you for showing to us
Absolutely amazing is this beautiful Sonder KFZ. I love it. ❤ 👍
Cool!
Now that one of us Aussies have driven it, means we sort of half own it now, hey?
You should say to Dmitry that if he ever considers selling it, Aus Armour gets first right of refusal, yes??
Would look good doing the circuit at an AusArmourFest!!
Those semaphore indicators look like they'd break on the first day of operation, they certainly broke often on my grandad's old Austin. what a crazy fragile thing to have on a military vehicle
Are they original or put on for road-worthy purposes?
trafficators! My parents had a couple of Daimler Conquest cars in the 60's and early 70's, My dad really liked them even though he didn't drive. The first one had trafficators that flicked out from the pillar between the doors each side. Coollest kid in school I was for a time if my mum had to drop me off in the car.
All German armored cars from SDKFZ 221-261 had them, the half-tracks all had them, only the SDKFZ 250 B and SDKFZ 251 D no longer had them. Just look at original pictures and look for them.
The trafficators may seem fussy and ridiculous, but that is the way they did it. It's hard to imagine those surviving the first trip through the brush.
Im in need of one of those for my Opel Olympia 1938, same model LOL
Amazing to see it drive!
Amazing piece of history you have there, properly restored. Thank you for saving and restoring it to working condition.
Amazing vehicle
Absolutely beautiful machine👌
🇩🇪 and their technology.
One word!!
Beautiful😻
My time in Afghanistan with the Czech Special Forces showed me how warm and polite the people of Czechoslovakia were. The restoration of the half track is amazing!
Slight correction Czechoslovakia doesn’t exist any more. Slovakia and the Czech Republic are separate.
Another slight correction could be that he is not Czech, but Belarusian who lives in the Czech republic. But Im glad you have fond memories of our soldiers!
@@JasZg Loool you wish buddy. Not to mention that Czechoslovakia was a thing already before it turned to communism, its existence had nothing to do with any specific ideology. And Russia will destroy itself as usual.
@@JasZg Serbian nationalism and supremacism is to blame. They started a war in Croatia in order to dominate the people there and then allowed a full scale genocide and ethnic cleansing to develop in Bosnia-Herzegovina. I’ve been to that country and I have seen the mass graves and the people who lost family. Russia being Russia has a history of ethnic cleansing and genocide, tartars, Volga Germans, the Holodomor and did not stop its Serbian stooges. Here is a reality Serbian Supremacists and their Russian allies thought mass murder is okay. Same happens all over Russia today. The reality is Russia is not fit to rule over others (no one is) but Russia and Serbia lack moral leadership in character. You can not murder to restore a Serbia to 12th century.
@@JasZg Yugoslavia was destroyed because Croatians and Bosnians did not want to live under Serbian domination. In civilised countries, we let people have independence and autonomy and then they come together voluntarily . We don’t want to dominate and oppress. We give freedom. Serbia started committing massive criminal acts against Croatia with a war of domination and then genocide in Bosnia. They attempted to restore a mythical pass of 900 years ago by eliminating human . This is why you Yugoslavia broke up. They can be no return to Yugoslavia, because of the crimes that were committed. Russia, of course supported these crimes as it always places empire and domination above humanity and morality. It will do anything to maintain domination, including encouraging nationalist stooges in Serbia. Czechoslovakia broke up, because Slovak and Czechs wanted to be independent. Only some damn fool would force them to be together. Within the EU they can travel between countries, buy property and work. Within Nato they are safe from Russian aggression, imperialism and expansionism.
-Russia, should just let people be free. Russia is not respected. It is despised.
When he said, “maybe someone has better” with the wry smile…that’s when I knew
Absolutely flawless in appearance and operation. Would give anything to see it in person. Kudos on this painstaking and very historic restoration.
Fantastic piece of history