1940's Carlow Ford Armour ed Car Mk VI

Powered by a V8 Ford engine on a Ford chassis it was fitted with RIC boiler plate for armour

armament was a .303 Vickers heavy machine gun

 There are only believed to be two left in existence the one zealously guarded in Calvary barracks Ireland

featured below

The Armour ed Car was built from a Fordson E88T lorry, a very rare vehicle to find these days

like the one pictured below.

The very distinctive wings, headlamps and wheels still visible in the armour ed car.

The return and recovery

Now back in Ireland albeit the North

and the restoration begins