Tanks-A-Lot
The guys at Tank-A-Lot are probably the leading Tank Driving guys in the UK.
They have 95 tanks that can be taken on their off road tank driving course. They specialise in tank driving, corporate tank driving (not over your boss, although if you bung them a tenner they may let you drive a tank over his car) 
Other than the tank driving experiences that are on offer from Tanks-A-Lot they can also arrange the use of a Tank for other activities you may require, how about a Tank Limo, or you may need a tank for a publicity event.
Tanks-A-Lot is in Helmdon, Northants, not too far away from Silverstone.
Tanks-A-Lot
Spring Farm
Helmdon
Near Brackley
Northamptonshire
NN13 5QD
Tank Mania
Tank Mania is located in South Derbyshire/Leicestershire area and they offer a range of different Tank Driving experiences.
In their line up of Tanks & Military vehicles they have:
• Abbot self propelled gun tank
• 432 Armoured Personnel Carrier
• BV206 Hagglund Amphibious Personnel Carrier
• Bedford MJ 4×4 truck
• Miniature Tanks
So with this line up you have a range of different tank driving experiences that you can try your hand at, which includes the ever popular car crushing!
Unlike other tank driving providers Tank Mania also have Miniature Tanks, which are pretty much what they say on the tin. Tanks but in miniature form, 3 foot tall and 7 foot long and can fit one person (children can also drive these).
Tank Mania address:
Measham Lodge Farm
Gallows Lane
Measham
Ashby-de-le-zouch
DE12 7HA
Tank Driving Experiences
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To get a 10% discount on any of these tank driving experiences then you simply need to enter the exclusive disocunt code: drivingexp at the checkout stage! View here for all Tank Driving Experiences
Tank Paintballing battle
Tank Paintballing is paintballing in Tanks!
Driving a tank is a driving experience that will be a ton (well 55 tons of metal) of laughs and enjoyment but how about adding a bit of extra spice to the occasion by having a tank battle against someone else and getting to fire paint bombs at each other to make it even more interesting and intense!
Tank Paintballing
Your three person crew will drive one of the specially modified 432 APC where you will get to drive, arm and fire the gun after you have lined them up in your periscope!
Think paintballing but on a much larger scale and without getting hurt if and when you get hit!
Before you head into Tank paintballing battle you learn all you need to about driving the tank, a couple of levers, one to turn you left and one to turn you right plus an accelerator pedal and that’s it, no need to worry about gear changes as it’s all automatic!
After your tank driving training next up is the target practice and firing the paintball bombs at a target, with a bit of luck your target practice will be better that your opponents as next up is the tank paintballing battle and you want to make sure your 200mph “bombs” are hitting them more than you getting hit by any!
You can buy a Tank Paintballing experience for £100 from Buyagift
Receive a £5 discount by entering Promo code “170274″ at checkout!
Start your engines and FIRE!
Tank Driving Experiences
Taking a tank driving experience is something that you are unlikely to forget in a hurry. It is not something that you get to do everyday, well, unless you are a tank driver in the army or something but for arguments sake we will take an educated guess that you aren’t!
Anyway, on tank driving experiences you will get to do various different things and can vary depending on which experience you book. A highlight for many would be to drive over car in a tank and crush it, view some of our “Crushing cars in Tanks videos” to let that wet your appetite, there isn’t really much more to say with regards to that one that the videos won’t do a better job of showing!
Some of the tank driving experiences let you take in a range of different military vehicles so you may get to drive a Chieftain Tank, Abbot SPG (self-propelled field gun), APC(Armoured Personnel Carrier) & quad bikes (yes hardly what you want to be dodging bullets or bombs on in a war but they are amazing fun to drive).
Many of your instructors on the day will be ex Forces and may have served in the Gulf War and so you will no doubt get to hear many real life stories about what these tanks are like to drive out in real world combat while stacked with live ammo!
There will be time to take pictures and videos and if you bring a spectator along with you you can set them up to do all the photography work for you so you can just sit back and relax (well, not really) as you drive the tanks, if you notice your cameraman (or woman) not paying attention you have a big long gun on the front of the tank that will soon get their mind back on the job!
Your day may be a half day or a full day depending on what you have chosen, obviously the longer the day the more tank driving you are going to get to try. You will be part of a group so the tank driving does mean you all have to take turns but there is so much more to experiencing the tanks than just doing the driving, being sat in and on or watching provides absolutely superb fun and entertainment!
Now, Let battle commence…!
Tank Driving experience video
What better way to start this Tank driving blog off than with a couple of videos to show the type of thing you can get up to when you drive a tank. Now obbviously in a tank you are going to be king of the road, especially if you are sat behind the controls of a 55 ton Chieftan tank!
This 9 minute video should be enough to get your juices flowing and wanting to do some tank driving!