WW2 Panther tank seized from pensioner's cellar

Yemowt

I wonder how they came into his possession. I would not think that he would have bought them off of somebody as the Germans would have probably banned the sale of any past equipment and during the cold war era, I am pretty sure somebody must have seen the tank and even if it was in bad condition, would have notified local authorities.

tac foley

Yeah, sneakin' THAT baby past the missus must have proved tricky.

'What tank is that, hon? Oh, THAT tank. I've had it ages - I'm amazed you never noticed it before now.....'

tac

Tony EH

Is that the male version of "Oh...this old thing? I've had this for ages."

:pac:

Jawgap

I think I'd go with the 'porn' excuse - "I was only looking after it for a friend."

gally74

tac foley wrote: »

I would have thought that the, uh, shortage of 75mm ammunition might have put a stop to a rampage. However, I recall a nut-job running amok in a National Guard M60 a few years back until a trooper got his hand into the turret and blew his head off.

BTW, if any of you recall a magazine from the 80's called 'After the battle', then look at issue #20 - it covers this tank's history in some detail.

As fo value, well that is as near incalculable as it is possible to be. The late Jacques Littlefield, an armour collecor in CA, admitted to having spent around $3M just rebuilding one, let alone getting one in brand-new condition. Here in UK, Mr Wheatcroft, another collector of armoured vehicles, is well on the way to that amount in his project. I'm not usually a betting man, but I'm willing to wager that the net value of that Panther is going to be around $10M, and not a cent less.

tac

I walked around littlefelds yard shed etc for the auction last year, some experience

Jawgap

In the same vein......

Tank buyer has to move out of two-bedroom flat near Bristol

A man living in a two-bedroom flat near Bristol has had to move house after winning a tank in an online auction.

Jeff Woolmer put a bid on the seven-tonne ex-Canadian army tank on a specialist auction site.

He said: "I'd forgotten all about it and then at work I had a call saying 'Hello sir you've just bought a tank'."

With "tank parking a bit of a problem" at his flat, Mr Woolmer said he has had to move to a larger house on the outskirts of the city to park it.
Mr Woolmer, who works as a stress engineer on the Bloodhound Project in Avonmouth, said he bought the tank for £9,000 from Witham Specialist Vehicles.

tac foley

'snot former Canadian. The CDF never had these vehicles, or any other of the CVRT series, in service. It might have been based at CFB Suffield, supporting the British Army on that large exercise area in Alberta, but not TOS any Canadian unit.

Looks black and green to me - that's probably British.

Great fun they are, too, one of our gun-club members has the Scimitar version with the 30mm cannon and the up-rated Perkins diesel engine.

tac