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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Yep....that film would have never made it to the airwaves if I was in control of it.
So “finders keepers, losers weepers” is COMPLETELY out the window these days...
Damn...
Geez...you have no imagination at all save to be a sheep.
Maybe they made a mistake with the decimal point, and it is $25 million! (RIP Don Rickles)
5 x 12lb bars = 60 x 16oz=960 x $1265 is a little over 1.2 million. 2 to 2.5 million in the story?
Great Movie. Kelly’s Hero’s.
I must say I’m a little surprised at the number of people on an FR thread who seem to be in favor of tax evasion. In this case it would be fairly difficult to get away with since melted gold almost always raises questions and we are talking about large bars, not a handful of small coins. And even if you think there is nothing wrong with large scale tax evasion, is it worth the possibility of a long prison sentence if you are caught?
Just call your lawyer, pay the applicable taxes and be happy for your good fortune.
Good way to fund the tank restoration with it.
By rights, it’s his. He paid for it, came with the tank.
The buried the lede...
That sounds like “Kelley’s Heroes”.
Ping.
Learn goldsmithing.
Wonder if Mr. Mead bought a dozen from the cluster working Kuwait, kept 9 diesel tanks and forked over this tank for ‘Caesar’.
You’re correct. The right thing to do is ALWAYS pay taxes. But it is purely human to try to avoid doing so.
How many times do you see poor people win a $50k car or something on tv, and weep that their wife/husband/mother is going to be so happy because her car is from 1985? They can’t afford that “prize.” The tax is 50%! They have to sell the car to pay the tax!
Does everyone who makes tips declare them all, or did they all have a fairly bad year??
It’s human nature NOT to want to pay a ton of taxes.
Complete idiotic socialist loving morons of the dumbest order attention whores.
They should have told no one, except no one what they found.
Some exploits in illicit gold coinmaking:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0793266/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0711495/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
I’d have kept it for them.
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