As a woodworker unfamiliar with metal working, I can only imagine the immense challenge of restoring a rusty, cracked, warped, and perforated tank hull. In a previous life, you must have operated one of these bad boys! Having a look at the cracked and twisted bits, I'm in complete awe over the craftsmanship, skill, and dedication illustrated here. Much respect! Thank you for sharing.

Jon Phillips, has done a great job restoring his Stug III. I imagine by now he's been able to drive it at Tank events in the UK & Europe. It would be nice to see it in action.

Build another 17 vehicles, and you can support a whole infantry division. Got to be worth a try.

I love how people are doing this, it's kind of sad that these tanks are being taken and used for target practice, I mean on a piece of beautiful history! thank you!

@patrickmorris9710

3 жыл бұрын

When that was done it was in the middle of the war

@cosmoray9750

Жыл бұрын

Look up " MSM BETRAYED The Canadian Working Class And Persecuted Protesting Truckers: " on yT. Insightful.....US was involved.

Dear Jon, congratulations to you for achieving so much from such a poor starting point. It looks fantastic and I hope you manage to get it running somehow. Regards Dyfed

Amazing. I would have thought it impossible and never tried. You have done a great thing preserving that piece of history. Thanks for posting.

Glad that people like you fix these tanks up. I'm in the Australian Army and it frustrates me when we use tanks for target and Dems practice.

i don't want a car, i want a fucking stug!!!! :D

@carlrudd1858

7 жыл бұрын

You shouldn't be allowed on the highway

@BoostedPastime

7 жыл бұрын

Paolo Vitali good luck with that mileage

Hat off to you gents,fantastic rebuild .

The vehicle was one of three Sturm III that were attached to SonderKommando (SbV) 288.

hope you will post when you get this stug running. well done, love the new trend to restore history so we can tell the stories to the next generation. well done sir.

(1:1 scale)

I imagine it is a real nightmare to find parts for something like that. It looks as if a lot of the parts were remade for the running gear. Thanks for an amazing job conan amazing machine.

Thank you for restoring this amazing piece of history, it was not much more than scrap. What a unbelievable job you have done, thank you one more time.

absolutely fantastic job, the patience and dedication you must have to rebuilt this is amazing. Thank you for posting this.

Nicely done friend! ur a tank friend and a guard of history!

Glorious, warms the heart to see it get restored like that. :)

Fantastic work on a great piece of history.

Great job restoring it,my hats off to you sir!

Jeez Mick, you sure need more subscribers! These restoration projects are awesome!

@plasmadrone3123

7 жыл бұрын

***** don't worry dude. I will be on your side.

Beautiful, thank you!

Amazing work,well done matey.She looks fantastic.

Excellent video

Great job, there's a KT getting restored now in Switzerland to full functional order, absolutely love these kind of endeavours PS: glad my country Romania contributed to this with one sprocket 😉

Great job Jon. Your welding is first rate. nice

Nothing short of remarkable!

Absolutley Brilliant!!! Well Done !!

Wow thanks for making this video. Best wishes.

Congratulations on a great work!!

Great job! Thank you for posting the video!

This is like an inspirational story. "Oh man I don't know if I can do such and such. It's so hard and almost impossible." Then this guys rebuilds a tank from a a range target thats literally broken in pieces and parts salvaged from around the world. I don't have many excuses now.

Looks fantastic

im late to this video. but your work is remarkable. im blown away by your accomplishment.

Gostei da trilha sonora , excelente trabalho de restauração 👏

Very interesting thanks for sharing. It looks great

Awesome history youre saving.

Amazing work! Thx for sharing!

Wonderful work. Top!!!

Speechless !

Good Show! This is a fantastic result of TLC and dedication, transforming a shot-to-hell rusted metal box into a recognizable relic of the Second World War. It's a magnificent accomplishment - the patching and welding, and the restoration of the running gear(in the first video) is especially impressive. The Stug III at the end of this video is in the finishing-up stage, and may take as long as the work so far(or else fabricate replacements, an expensive choice)....still, Well done!

Nice work !!

nice video and great job on the restore. it's surprising to hear Panzerlied associated with a Stug. but the version chosen is good also.

So cool!

Amazing so much passion! Btw i love this "happy" version of Panzerlied !

Amazing.

What great history here.

One of my favorite tank destroyer in WOT.....

We have tanks on our ranges here in Australia. It saddens me to see them shot up.

Excellent work Dear Jon, a really new life for this Stug III Ausf D . The next will be a Stug IV ? 😊😊😉👍🏻 I love history of german's tanks since i have 12 years, i have now 48 years and i'm always interesting by these ones. I'm french so my english is not perfect,sorry. Respect for your work. David.

👏👏👏👏 felicitaciones desde argentina muy buen trabajo 👍

Very Nice!! ☺

Wow Mick,thats amazing!!great work man. can you ship her to the states so i can take a spin around the woods near my family camp? lol,only in a perfect world.

Sehr schön lebendige Geschichte. Auf der rechten Seite sind die Stützrollen mit Continental Gummiring und auf der linken Seite die Stützrollen ab November 1943 mit Stahllaufflächen. Da wurde wohl im Einsatz das genommen was noch da war.

She's beautiful!

zbV is an abbreviation for the German term "zur besonderen Verwendung" meaning "Special Purpose". It is usually translated "For Special Employment".

Where would you find the men who are able to reconstruct these vehicles and the parts? The drivers of the Stugs must have been really good to be able to get the gun on target... Love to be able to see the finished product...

Damn dude that sucks that you repaired that battle damage eh? Feel your pain

love your view ;-)

Great job, Well done! I was just wondering about the three returnrollers on the left side of the stug...…..is there a way to use rubber forklift wheels?

nice!

Impressive

Cute! Hitler didnt only have a soft spot for animals, but also for cute tanks with adorable tiny barrels.

You should start a go fund me or a patreon for Jon Phillips and SPREAD the word LIKE NOBODYS BUISNESS he is seemingly doing all this by himself with limited funding

Very good Mick one question is the gun functional

@514thmick

8 жыл бұрын

+Harvey Webb No its been deactivated

where did you get the parts for the gun?

wow

Nice song. Is it panzerlied?

@SgtMaulwurf

8 жыл бұрын

+elf tanker Yes it is.

Me gustaría tenerlo en mi casa

шикарно, жаль тут качество низкое

@514thmick

8 жыл бұрын

+VolvoSafety От крушения он начал с конца хорошо

completely fantastic Mick, my dad fought these fcukers in N Africa...

@readytodie7355

6 жыл бұрын

Guy Croft fuck u

@opoxious1592

5 жыл бұрын

Actually, the Germans and British had great respect for one another. No war crimes were commited on both sides, and P.O.W's on both sides were treated with the greatest respect. This is why they called the battle of North Africa the "Gentleman's War"

@TheMlgFox

5 жыл бұрын

@@readytodie7355 No u

there are other songs the "das panzer lied "that you can use as music to go with your builds guys , or atleast use different version.

@m551sheridan5

4 жыл бұрын

Why can't I find the version playing in this video

What's the song in the background?

@cfranko1860

5 жыл бұрын

Arturo Olvera panzerlied

can it reach Poland on one tank of gas?

if say a ship sank in ww2 with tanks on it and we could retrieve them would they still be in good shape?

Nice build - some commentary would be better than just music

(I thought Alfred Hitchcock died forever ago.). At the risk of stating the obvious, should've lowered it. As for an engine, you can't go wrong with most LS/LT swaps but I would recommend the ZZ572. (Now I can't remember what video this is ...).

Is it Jon himself speaking at the end?

@514thmick

8 жыл бұрын

+Lucas's stuff yes

@lucassstuff

8 жыл бұрын

+Mick Wilson he has done a fantastic job!

@514thmick

8 жыл бұрын

He sure has

What kind of engine will be put into it?

@514thmick

8 жыл бұрын

+Czechnut ‎He is fitting a Rolls-Royce K60 from a FV432, he cant afford an original at £150,000

@nitromatt37gaming52

8 жыл бұрын

+Mick Wilson i never realized how small the stug was

@k1er4n544

8 жыл бұрын

in part one video at 0:17 the matilda mk2 in middle looks restorable fairly intact just lacking turret great job with stug if only all these great pieces of history could be restored if had money id happily restore a matilda

@HMSFord

7 жыл бұрын

+Mick Wilson: I'm surprised that an original engine can even be found, let alone purchased.

Ahh!! Bug .😨

Whens the next instalment?

@514thmick

8 жыл бұрын

+Peter Brown As soon as he gets it running, the engine is being fitted at the moment

@GSXRNissan

8 жыл бұрын

+Mick Wilson the engine nice HL120 12 Cylinder i heard one of these in germany in Dresden. ( in Museum they move a Panzer IV look @ KZread Dresden Museum Panzer IV ) greatings from germany :-)

When you want to restore WW2 German tanks, you need a stack of cash.

You need the real Panzer Lied March. No a hippie song.

он хоть заводиться?

Great restoration. Nazi music...could do without.

@mangothecat2390

5 жыл бұрын

Well, it is not really Nazi music as you call it such. In my service time as a Tanker in the Bundeswehr we were trained to sing this song. We just let out the pro facist parts

@scootergeorge9576

5 жыл бұрын

So the music is facist in origin but cleaned up. Okay... My German is virtually non existent. Took one semester in college and received a C (2.0) which was higher than I actually deserved.

@mangothecat2390

5 жыл бұрын

@@scootergeorge9576 well it is good to see someone responding chill to creativ criticism. Most people turn into full ape mode and instantly insults you... Cheers and may God bless your soul

@scootergeorge9576

5 жыл бұрын

And you. Actually I have second cousins in Northern Germany.

@opoxious1592

5 жыл бұрын

Its sounds more like hippies singing this song around a fire, with dirty feet xD

Deutschen quality

666

Stug 3 in Afrika?????

StuG with the ugliest gun possible :(

Good, except for the music...

wow