JustSomeOldGuy wrote:Noggin wrote:Since I'm an "old timer" I would have to go "old school" with something from my youth which I know very well both from the driver's and gunner's perspective.
Is that the 'Saracen Armored Car' that Jack Higgins alludes to in a number of his novels? (mostly the Liam Devlin/Sean Dillon ones)
Yes it is, I commanded a troop of those In NI in the 70s. I'll have too dig around in some old boxes there should be a B&W pic of me as a skinny young Lt sitting on the turret in my dress blues. Strictly speaking the Saracen is an APC. Back in the late 50s and early 60s Alvis made three vehicles all based on the same engine, drive train and torsion bar suspension. The Armoured Car was the SALADIN with a 76mm gun, there was also a 5 ton amphib truck called the Stalwart.
