Posted on 04/09/2017 8:31:23 AM PDT by mandaladon
A tank fanatic got a new model in a £30,000 [$37,000] trade-in — and found more than £2million of gold bullion hidden in the fuel tank.
Nick Mead, 55, discovered the five gold bars in the Russian T54/69 while restoring it to add to his collection of 150 military vehicles.
He and mechanic Todd Chamberlain were filming themselves prising open the diesel tank in case they found munitions and needed to show it to bomb disposal crews.
Instead, they pulled out the bars, weighing up to 12 pounds — 5kg — apiece.
Todd, 50, said a quick calculation suggested they were worth in excess of £2million [$2.5 million].
He added: “We didn’t know what to do. You can’t exactly take five gold bullion bars down to Cash Converters without questions being asked, so we called the police.”
Nick runs Tanks-a-Lot, giving petrolheads the chance to drive any of his tanks on his farm in Helmdon, Northants.
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You STFU and keep it. Sheesh. If I found gold, I wouldn't tell a soul, especially not the government.
Lee Marvin knows all about this.
Tanks-a-Lot....*smiles*
Not difficult to figure out how the gold got in there.The only thing that *is* puzzling is why it wasn’t removed?
Annnnnnnddd... now he’s got a tank, and no gold...
30K Lbs. for a 2KLb. payout. Not a bad ROI.
Saddam’s.... remember the Three Kings?
“Always with the negative vibes, man!”
Gas tank seems a bit small for a tank
I’d be melting it into my own 1 oz coins. Or something. Disperse, trade, sell. No use giving the stuff away.
It's not difficult imagining "the authorities" getting wind of this and starting to ask many questions.It seems to me to be like finding something of value here.You find a suitcase on the street with $100K in it.You take it to a police station (after consulting a lawyer and following his advice regarding state and Federal law) and hope that nobody claims it within a year (or whatever the limit is).
Really? I’d tell someone, starting with my lawyer. These aren’t small gold coins here. They’re bars of a size you can’t just drop them off for cash and expect no questions to be asked. If you melt them you will raise questions by trying to sell melted gold. In the end though, you just let your lawyer handle it, pay any taxes you owe and be happy for your good fortune.
I don’t particularly like taxes, but I pay mine and have little sympathy for those who don’t.
DOH! What the hell were you thinkin’ dude? Shhhhhhhh! Little bits at a time that you “found” on your farm and melted down.
Looks more like a gas can that they would carry as additional fuel. Or to store precious metals.
Possibly
Melt it down and cast it into chess pieces. Sell it at 2X markup over spot.
“There’s the bridge... it’s still up!”
WHEEEEEEEEE... BOOM.
“No, it ain’t.”
Learn goldsmithing.
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