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That Chev is now in England. Having driven it there from Istanbul in '09 I sold it before coming home.

Back when I purchased those 100 ammo boxes I went through a pile of perhaps four times that number to get good ones as they had been stacked outside for some time and the rain had got to them. Some were full of water, some were rotted through already.

It was around that time that a mate and I bought twenty or so de-milled PIATs from Plum and Crettins in Wodonga for 50 cents each. The army had thoughtfully dropped off the parts removed in the same load of scrap so it was an easy matter to recommission a number of them.

I was amazed when I saw a mock up of a PIAT in the Pegasus Bridge museum in Normandy with a note saying that a real one was unobtainable. The next one I saw was being unloaded from the boot of a re-enactors vehicle at the Bovington Tank Fest. Chatting with the bloke he told me that they are worth a horrendous amount of money. I don't have a single one left. Easy come easy go.

You're no doubt aware Mike that the Australian Army officially referred to that weapon as PITA, Projector Infantry Tank Attack. A not so subtle psychological switch around that appears at least in the training manual of which my mate has a copy.

David