Posted on 04/10/2017 4:24:25 PM PDT by Neil E. Wright
Full Title: Tank collector shocked to find £2million gold bullion hidden in the fuel compartment of his £30,000 vehicle
A TANK fanatic got a new model in a £30,000 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 12lb 5kg apiece.
Todd, 50, said a quick calculation suggested they were worth in excess of £2million.
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They’ll be lucky if they can keep even 10% of the find because the state will be certainly knocking on their doors.
They should have deleted the video, split the gold in half, and kept their mouths shut.
We read about these gold finds all the time. Too bad people never learn.
Lol! I know my governments well. I still bet the EU will try to claim it. Probably the Russians too.
If the bars have serial numbers, they probably belong to the Kuwati government.
Found 20 bars report 5.
My first thought. That’s one of my favorite WWII movies even though it’s just a comedy. Don Rickles was great in that.
Exactly
Big mouth!
Keep it to yourself.
Now the whole world knows.
That reminds me, when I was 19, I left some gold in a tank. Did anyone find it?
Rickles. Savalas. Carrol O’Connor! Sutherland. Eastwood, goes without saying. Stuart Margolin. Gavin MacLeod!
Unbelievably great cast and movie.
Fabulous theme song too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doeJSspVL5Y
Kelly’s Heroes!
My thought exactly lol
I wonder if there’s any markings on it that will identify where the bouillons were smelted.
That’s the kind of thing you don’t talk about. You just quietly cash in. Sure someone will make a claim on the gold now.
Maybe it’s some of the gold that Roosevelt confiscated from Americans and gave it to his commie buddies.
Hello, Peggy? This is Ivan Forgetski. I can't remember where I parked my tank!Well you know what they say in Southern Russia...Tough shitski y'all.
WHY OH WHY do these people report these finds??? Some government agent is going to show up and seize the whole load. If I found 100lbs of gold bars somewhere I’d keep my mouth shut.
Band saw it into smaller sections (save the dust!) and melt it with a few 14-22k rings or some gold scrap to throw off an assay or isotope analysis that could trace it.
Recall the Swiss got egg on their faces sitting on a bunch of gold that hadn’t been refined well enough to get all the mercury from Jewish dental work out...
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