I'm a lucky guy. My wife still looks at me, the way Sofi looks at anything with a turret.

Damn. Her eyes got me hooked.

Wow, Sofilein looks like a better version of a Barbie doll. A smart one, who likes tanks! Just amazing, plus unlike other interviewers(Chieftain) she lets Mr. Doyle speak. Just a pure joy to watch and listen to.

Haha sofi in the driver's seat was pure joy haha

Mr. Doyle certainly knows his stuff. Thanks for sharing.👍👍👍

I really love the German armored cars!

Hi Sophi, glad to see you back.

excellent video. new subscriber to your channel. hilary doyle is the man when it comes to german vehicles. your interest in this stuff is refreshing to see, from someone your age. someone has to carry on when all of us old geezers are gone. i have studied this subject for almost 50 years. excellent channel! please keep going.

Thanks for rolling around and showing us all this vintage armor! I grew up with armor stories, as my father drove a Sherman for 6th Marine division in the battle for Okinawa! Including the battle of Sugar loaf hill!

Sofi & Hilary- thank you for your amazing insights into this rare vehicle- staysafe

Love the video... listening to Mr. Doyle is like listening to my dad talk. I would imagine that being with him would be like enjoying your grandpa talk about those things that he is still vitally interested in, and you share with him.

Awesome to hear more about these less hyped vehicles. Even more so when it comes from the walking "German Armor" encyclopedia himself! The chemistry between the two of you furthers the delightfulness of watching your videos quite substantially too of course. 😍 Aaand I must admit that I always found the Sdkfz 22Xs to be rather sexy vehicles. 😅

Всем добра и мира✊👍 Привет из Якутии👋

Sofi, love your videos . I'm an ol Disabled Army Veteran from the Cold War Era ,serving overseas and stateside ,being a ol Tread Head ...it is really nice to see a young Lady as yourself take an interest in the Armor and Military history these days ...alot of ol Soldiers and history buff are getting in age ...The WWII and Korean War Veterans are leaving us in record numbers...so it is nice to see you in here ,picking up the torch ...God Bless you ...

I want to see much more of Sofilein. She is sooooo cute.

One of my favorite armored cars in Forgotten Hope mod.

Such a fascinating vehicle. This will look amazing restored, hope they can fully restore it and make it functional

I am 58 and have been studying armored vehicles all my life. I have over 50 models and 100 books. I have been in 1 Sherman Easy 8 tank when I was 11. I am jealous!!!! They need to open these vehicles up to the public, to at the least, to look inside.

I actually got to drive the Collins foundation restored Sd Kfz 222 in a reenactment at the foundation before the museum was built. Its a very easy vehicle to drive.

This channel is so good. I like how he shows that things are missing. I was thinking all was there.

Your passion for the tankus is awesome Sofi :) Keep it up

More Sofi and her Grandpa in tanks vids, what a way to improve one's weekend! *o7*

extremely detailed description from Hilary Doyle

I LOVE listening to Hilary Doyle!!

As always Mr. Doyle does an excellent job in conveying his vast knowledge of military equipment. I didn't realize that any 223's had survived the war and seeing this one was a real treat. Another vehicle that had been stripped clean of most of the internal components, which makes a complete restoration a nightmare. Sometimes you can fabricate look-alike parts (we had to do that to restore an SU-76 using parts from an Zis-3 as a template) but some stuff just can't be found anywhere.

When I was in the USAF we didn’t have too many girls that looked like Sofi,but those that did,they were VERY popular! Lovely woman,that Sofi. And she’s a AFV fanatic! Very rare indeed!

Thanks for unique video of a not often covered line of vehicles. Interesting how they had learned to angle the bottom back then for increased protection from blasts.

Fantastic video. Love seeing internals & engine details. 💥🤓💥

Thanks for the video, great interview.

I used to ride in one when I belonged to a WWII reenactment group here in California. Wish I could post a photo of me next to it.

Love it! God love Hillary Doyle. Reminds me of my late grandfather, albeit shorter and way more Irish sounding. Great work, as always, Sofi. Just don't text and drive the 223!!!

Fascinating! Hopefully we'll get to see it when it's fully fitted out. I love armored cars and halftracks, so many variants!

this videos is very helpful , people who work with these things or people who are looking to work with history at times need help too , so having these in depth videos really helps

So that's how gruber's little tank supposed to look like.

Great channel. Keep these video's coming.

I' m watching your videos and i' m súper fan of machines of WWII. Noe more subs... Hi from Argentina 🇦🇷 🤜🤛

Outstanding video and presentation. Thank you!

Just when I was getting really bored of second world war content on YT this pops up. Cool video.

Sofi you look like a natural in that drivers seat!

Thanks for the video of the inside, it will really help with my sdkfz 223 rebuild.

Super awesome again! My bucket list for one has Sofi rolling around atop a Stug, and I'm there in person!

Sofi and Hillary and Sofi and the Chieftan make such great combinations. She brings out the very best in them. Enthusiasm and sincere passion meets experience and knowledge. Sofilein's enthusiasm is so infectious and she now knows far more about tanks than 90%+ of us ever will. Talk about having the very best mentors and being the best of students. I'm jealous all round!

awesome vehicle!!!! Fascinated with this one

Great vid! Thank you!

great content, thank you

Just discovered your channel and subscribed. A fantastic video. Will certainly help with the reference material for my model. Thanks for sharing

Not sure how I made it here. That’s great to see young people that still care about these.

you're lucky to meet all these interesting old dudes. They are full of knowledge.

Glad I found your channel, definitely subbed

Such a fascinating vehicle.

Great video!

Tanks a lot!

Stunningly beautiful and so is the vehicle.

Thank you so much. It’s a pity that such a short video will help a lot with restoration.

Glad that you are on screen .. you provide the yin and yang.

that man knows his armor thanks for the videos

Nice to see these armored cars getting some attention ! Sofis future commuter vehicle perhaps ? heheh ♥

Drop dead gorgeous!!!

You rock! Love how you look at Mr. Doyle, I love the chemistry you guys have. Keep the videos coming truly enjoy Mr. Doyle and appreciate you documenting his knowledge. Not so much for me, but for the future generations. I was telling my friend I have personally known 2 people who actually saw Hitler in person and one of who was in the German airforce during the war..I also know a guy who was in the UK army post war stationed in North Africa fighting rebellious locals, he has told me stories about all the armor stored out in the desert and how they went on for miles. He told me tales about gardening them and getting into shootouts in the desert with this Lee Enfield and his team members using the Brin...it's so long ago, but it's not..Vietnam vets are older now than WWII vets were when i was born..today someone 18 years old has zero idea how real history is

YES ....More Sofilein Please 😁

Lovely just lovely 😍

Beautifull

Sofi,,, adorable 😍😍💯

What a beauty. !

This makes Ford's "Cab forward" design seem sensible and economic.

Nice

Sofilein provides some insightful and pertinent questions to the narrative. A great contributor. Im sure Hillary enjoyed the company in there.

It's nice to see the inside of a 223, we have a replica 222 that we built here in ohio. It's also not like most, where it is built on a VW bus chassis or a Land rover chassis or any one chassis. Ours uses 2 88-98 half ton chevy front axles with a frame in between. It is rear engine, automatic transmission for easiness of building, and it's all wheel drive all wheel independent suspension, and could be all wheel steer. We use a 350 chevy v8 to power ours, she's got some getup and go. LOL, we're also going to build a replica 223 as well.

Nice deutch project! 🖤❤💛🇩🇪

I see Sophie found another wheeled vehicle to check out.. Lucky lady gets to play with neat stuff.

This is literally less than 10 miles from my house, never new it existed.

Interesting.

Do a full inside view of the SD KFZ 234/2 Puma

Sofilein is downright adorable!

I was fortunate to meet a former tank driver (Panthers) who served in the Grossdeutschland Division. One bit of information he casually mentioned is that the radio operator communicated via Morse code with the other tank units. I know they had a throat mike to communicate inside the tank, but I always assumed they verbally communicated with other tanks in the same formation, as we currently do. Was he talking only of a command tank communicating with regimental HQ via Morse code?

The tightness in that compartment when in full uniform would be fun that's for sure! Lol!

Sofilein makes all my conversations with other women seem uninteresting Subscribed

I love her smile

something new like this one comes out in bfV, and now you are curious in the vehicle.

the veteran is very pleased with the attention )

omg!!! she is sooooooooooo beautyful!!

Great video the interior is increadible, and all the functioneary. Mr. Doyle have all the knownledge. But she...ah she is beautiful anyway anytime. Hy from Brazil!!!!!

Could we see a picture of the tank shaking rig? The one they use to get Sofilein out of a tank ;)

It'll be cool when all 3 are runners, and able to be in a mobile display.

I'm reading Jentz and Doyle's "D.W. To Tiger I" book these days and wondering how many Tiger models I'd have to own to be representative of them all. They list 35 production line changes between Aug 42-Aug 44.. I wonder which ones are minor and which are major?

Bad enough when your head goes in a normal motor lol never mind 4! Scarppys would have loved to get these in a daily basis lol

@2:12 realised they both have the same hair. It's like looking at twins !

Most channels will use a beautiful woman as eye candy to bring in viewers, Sofi is a beautiful woman who brings in tanks as eye candy...love it. As a former paratrooper we only had one piece of armor that was air drop able that we had for support, the M551 Sheridan. I would love to see you do a video on it.

Great interior view. Not exactly very ergonomic as that steering wheel would be a cast iron bitch to wrestle around. Can't even imagine Sofi and Mr. Doyle doing "oh, bugger! the armored car's on fire." with that kind of arrangement.

Sofi, it doesn't look like your knees would be very happy driving on rough ground in that vehicle.

Where you able to see an 8-Rad? And would you be able to tell me about the starting mechanism?

Sofi Lein turned on my engine! Hüpsches Fräulein!

Intéressant

Like your hair, sofi ❤️

Why is this in my recommendations? As for the tanks, it is very interesting and it is also useful to document the knowledge of an expert on video. I guess you can find at least some of this information in books, archives and descriptions in museums and other specialized institutions. After all, it is a real piece of history. Sofi, which tanks you like more from that time, German or American?

At a later date please go back and get us a full exterior picture view of all four sides.

Germans made some sexy armoured cars in WW2. The Sd.Kfz. 223 is one of my favorites.

Auto settings... Can't even remember if it was a smartphone or camera... Nice to see this at last 🙂

normies: that's a cute girl history nerds: what girl?

I hope to check out The weald foundation’s version. You look good behind the wheel Sofi. I am losing my mind here. No Overloon, no Tankfest. Bastogne Barracks (december) might be the first open event. Do consider Sofi. That’s where the IS3 resides. They’re also restoring the Houffalize Panther G.