Nice looking Armd Car

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Originally Posted by rob love

They are heavily laden with electronics, are reported to be top heavy, and have a lot of VOR time. They also do not like the rain as the electronics are sensitive to moisture. I'm glad I don't have to work on them.

A member of the Cold War Collection mused whether driver training was inadvertently contributing to instability at speed. He wondered where the drivers were taught to hold the wheel? (Without a trained TAPV driver to contribute, the question will be unanswered.) If a power steering equipped short wide stance vehicle gets a speed wobble, would the drivers' failing arms make the problem worse? Hands at 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock, or 8 o'clock and 4 o'clock?

They have a second problem of visibility. The crew sit up front in comfy seats. The V100's seats are 1" of compressed horsehair and canvas. I read a few accident reports of drivers turning the wheel at a road intersection and crushing a car in their left side blindspot! For most AFVs the requirement is for a crew member to be in the weather topside giving all around observation, especially when manoeuvering around smaller vehicles.