Team picked up a tank used as a monument for 30 years and revived it back to working order

A guy in the UK tried restarting a Mark 11 Chieftain – an old tank – after decades.

Believe it or not he actually managed to get it running, and the tank now works more or less smoothly.

There’s only one question left to ask now.

Namely, what exactly are they going to use it for?

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The story behind this Mark 11 Chieftain tank

Joe Hewes, the man behind the Mr Hewes YouTube channel, traveled to an army base in Shropshire, not far from Manchester in the UK, to recover an abandoned Mark 11 Chieftain tank.

For the record, we’re talking about a model that was first introduced in the 1960s.

The tank served for about 30 years before being retired, and it hasn’t moved in decades.

When it comes to the way they work, tanks are not the furthest thing away from a car.

They need oil and fuel, and they have fuel systems, oil and fuel tanks, dashboards, injection pumps, batterys and so on.

With that in mind, Hewes started by replacing components that deteriorate fast, starting from the battery, and they then had to bleed the fuel system and fix the injection pump.

It took a lot of time and work, but Hewes managed to start the engine at last, although he couldn’t manage to get any gear other than first and reverse to work.

But that’s not even the most impressive part, because what really shocked them is the tank was able to start on its own fuel, as in the fuel that had been sitting in the tank for 30 years.

“This is absolutely incredible. RPM works, some of the gears work, and [it runs] on its own fuel after 30 years,” Hewes said in the video.

This is brilliant, but the question is, what are they going to do with it now?

Tanks aren’t exactly everyday vehicles.

What can you do with an old tank?

A lot of people find old tanks particularly fascinating.

YouTubers regularly find old tanks and attempt to revive them for fun, and the job is sometimes made easier by the fact that some these tanks use old but common (and therefore easy to fix) Rolls-Royce engines.

Even our very own Sergi Galiano drove a tank once.

The problem is that tanks are obviously not street legal, so there’s not much you can do with them.

There are exceptions, though.

Not long ago, a UK guy managed to drive a tank through London by cleverly exploiting a loophole in the law.

Not all heroes wear capes.