[Closed] Anyone else got a tank?

Nice try, but I'm not about to tell the whole world, am I?

Got a dummy 120mm shell and wee tube.

Chieftains currently go for around £50k running

Not too expensive!

https://tanks-alot.co.uk/product/alvis-stalwart-fv620/

Would make a great uplift truck.

note they don't quote a MPG for it

Not sure what the German laws are relating to this wonder if the issue is lack of paperwork, or something along the lines of not amassing and glorifying a collection of Nazi items.

They don't quote miles per gallon because its actually gallons per mile.

Surely the anti aircraft guns would go in the attic rather than the basement. Schoolboy error.

Bloke near us had an actual T-34 in his garden (above Holmfirth).

https://www.ephotozine.com/user/j0-jo-66759/gallery/photo/from-russia-with-love-10783598

There's another T-34 in Bermondsey:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandela_Way_T-34_Tank

I think the T34 has been gone for a while now. Here’s 2 of mine - just in case y’know zombies’n’stuff…

And yes before some pedant says so I know they are recce vehicles not tanks 🙄

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John Gladden had a big run in with Croydon Council.
Can't see why.

checked the basement, correction i appear to also have a wheel bearing puller, which i have used on bikes, and some batteries, ear defenders and some random bolts.

Think i'm safe from the authorities

You need to build a bigger shed to keep them all out of the rain! (Vehicle conservation centre at Bovington museum).

Not tank related, but I have an air speed indicator from a Lancaster and a Mach-o-meter, turbine fan blade & erection cutback switch from a Vulcan. Be a while before either are airworthy I feel, so probably safe from the feds.

This one used to lurk on the hillside to the SE of The Stiperstones. I've not been past there for some years, but I assume it's still there
Chieftan at Gatten Farm
It's not the kind of thing you can just hook up to a normal 4x4 and tow away to the scrapyard.

That's Farmer Phil's tank, still there

I seem to remember a film, so bad it was good, about a soldier with a privately owned tank. I think the film was called "Tank".

I'm pretty sure when I looked into a Stalwart many moons ago they were 3 miles to the gallon.

They make good alternative tour buses

This one isn’t too far from me

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Chieftains currently go for around £50k running

yeah but for how long 😉

the trouble with getting involved with militaria is you might run into this...

Tank?

What you need is a Buccaneer, complete with its own fuel station:

Linky

There used to be a guy took his tank to Glastonbury. Saw it there a couple of times.

I would think there would be quite a market for these, reenactments and movie prop companies.

@Binners, IIRC the Super Furry Animals tank was then sold to Mark Thomas who tried to get an export licence to sell it to Iraq.

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Would make a great uplift truck.

Only slightly worse than the BPW army lorry

 I have an .... erection cutback switch from a Vulcan.

You monster....how does Spock now make sweet sweet luurve to Mrs Spock?

You monster….how does Spock now make sweet sweet luurve to Mrs Spock?

Kirk was getting tired of… his advances.

While I’d love a Stolly, the issues involved with the drivetrain eating itself on a regular basis would mean looking into getting the whole lot replaced with a proper 6x6 drivetrain and engine from a Mercedes truck, or possibly a Pinzgauer.
Which might also improve overall fuel consumption.
A 6x6 Steyr Pinzgaur might be a more practical solution, but nowhere near as impressive as a Stolly!
Still, if we’re talking about proper tanks, then it’s got to be a Hetzer, or Jagdpanzer 38, a tank hunter-killer with a 75mm high-velocity gun, built on a Skoda chassis.

Stollies are superb bits of kit but very maintenance intensive, and spares are not as readily available as they once were. Also bear in mind they are not actually armoured though, so possibly of limited use in the zombie hoards stakes. Some of the similar vehicles such as Saracens and Saladins were fitted with an electric shock device, which would energise the outer hull. The idea was that you could give rioters a nasty (but not necessarily fatal) jolt if they were trying to board your vehicle..

I’ve got a Merkava Mk1.

Check out @fitter.mat on tiktok for some (sweary) working on getting a tank moving again. Plus other sweary mechanicing skillz.

Still, if we’re talking about proper tanks, then it’s got to be a Hetzer, or Jagdpanzer 38, a tank hunter-killer with a 75mm high-velocity gun, built on a Skoda chass

Cool as it may be, it's not a proper tank but rather a self-propelled gun. Besides that, a StuG III is far cooler 😀

The Wheatcroft Collection is just bonkers (the owner is a bit of an oddball- he sleeps in one of Hitler's old beds) but its interesting following them on fb- he seems to have a huge number of sources in Europe for parts and vehicles (not sure it's all strictly above board) but the sheer number of vehicles owned and undergoing restoration is amazing. 10 Shermans, a couple of Tiger 1's, Tiger 2, 3 Panthers 4 Hetzers etc etc. All privately owned by one guy.

Combat Dealers is a guilty pleasure of mine.

A guy not too far away has a few post war military vehicles, including a smallish tank. I tend to pull over to the side of the road and let him past if he's taking it for a spin when I'm out riding.

That Panther tank will be worth a few quid especially if it was a recent "runner".

Get a Saxon, they can do 70mph easy, you just need someone who has passed the test as a vehicle commander up top

Loads of power, see it as an alternative to a T5 camper

Always like seeing megatron, a proper tarted up tank!

I'd have a Ripsaw EV1 Peacemaker. Suit me fine, reliability means I'd always have something to play with.

IIRC the Super Furry Animals tank was then sold to Mark Thomas who tried to get an export licence to sell it to Iraq.

@northwind just read a Vice article that says they sold it to Don Henley and shipped it to Texas.

I've got an old metal one i store firewood in, plus a big rotomoulded plastic one for firefighting.

Yeeeeeesssss.... from reading that article, it sounded like the tank was perhaps the least/only one of his many problems.

The lawyer also said that a number of German collectors had approached the defendant over other items, which included assault rifles and pistols, local media report.

Local authorities raided the property in 2015 after receiving a tip-off about the building's contents by colleagues in Berlin, who had earlier searched the home for stolen Nazi art.

Given his age, he can't be an actual Nazi from WW2.... but he certainly seems like he might be a fan of theirs.

A lot of German tanks were built by slaves, French or Italian in particular. It was not uncommon for them to commit subtle acts of sabotage. A risky business though - If found out the entire shift would be sent to a concentration camp. Most German stuff was scrapped very quickly after the war, and ironically that rarity, combined I guess with notoriety, has made German tanks very valuable..

That Wheatcroft collector is bonkers, he's got more operational tanks than some countries.....

German law says you can't have "War Weapons" like heavy machineguns, artillery, tanks, mortars etc. He fell a bit foul of that with AAA and a Panther. Then also some assault rifles an ammo.

One chap on a readers cars thread on Pistonheads has an Alvis Stalwart that he's restoring to go alongside his Daimler Ferret Mk1.

Stalwart Thread

The real story behind this in a tax dispute, the German government says he owes the X, he doesn't agree. so they are seizing items of value to sell.
which puts the Germany government in a pickle, can the sell nazi era memorabilia for profit?
The Panther is an old one, its not technically German, its British. It was made made war in the UK from spare parts, for testing. Ended up in Pounds Scrapyard in portsmouth. its was sold in late 70's / early IIFC and exported to Germany as British made.
Other items have been seized from his collect which have a dodgy past (statues), looted by nazi germany then "lost" and found in is garden.

Speshpaul,

The Panther is an old one, its not technically German, its British. It was made made war in the UK from spare parts, for testing. Ended up in Pounds Scrapyard in portsmouth.

Typos aside, where did you find this info? Genuinely interested.

Firstly in After the Battle, then it went off the radar for years.
If you google pounds scrapyard panther, there's a few threads to follow, you can still get back copies of AtB as well.

Cheers.

Anyone else old enough to remember Just Good Friends, Pinner Scrap Metals and the tank that made the news?