[Rockwolf66]

Originally Posted by dragoon500ly

You know, for an excellent source of home built armored vehicles that worked, you may want to reference the 1948 Israeli-Arab War.

Faced with an inability to acquire modern armor (although the Israelis did steal a Comet tank and several Daimler armored cars), most of what they used were standard trucks fitted with sandwich armor. Faced with a shortage of decent armor plate, the Israelis used boiler plate welded to the frame of the vehicle, then then welded another set of boiler plate 2-3 inches out and filled the space with a wide variety of material, everything from gravel to rubber to concrete to wood to tile. It was crude, anything larger than small arms would penetrate, but since most of the Arabs had few, if any, antitank weapons, it worked.

As the war progressed, it would be very likely that the various commanders would horde their remaining stocks of ATGMs for real emergencies. So I can see the possibility of ad hoc sandwich armored vehicles returning.....

Something like This

Yeah the drug gangs of northern Mexico are building armored combat vehicles.