Fight over World War II-era tank goes to court

http://money.msn.com/ via A.P. ^ | 9/12/14

[BBell]

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) - A company headed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has filed a lawsuit in the San Francisco Bay Area over a World War II-era German tank it says it paid $2.5 million for but never received.

The Panzer IV tank was part of a fleet of military vehicles amassed by Stanford University-trained engineer Jacques Littlefield, who kept them on his family estate up a winding, forested road above Silicon Valley. After his death, his family turned them over to the Massachusetts-based Collings Foundation, which put some of them up for auction in Portola Valley in July

[BBell]

I want one.

[BBell]

Note the flag in the background.

[abb]

I want either a Panther or Tiger. Would be mollified if I could get a King Tiger.

[BBell]

I believe this is the one the dispute is over.

[Paladin2]

No RPG protection.

[headstamp 2]

Oh yeah?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuStsFW4EmQ

[doorgunner69]

What is with the rock in the tracks by the front sprocket?

That some kind of tank parking brake?

[BBell]

It would still be fun to drive around the neighbor hood.

[PLMerite]

That Panzer IV is in the Israeli Army Museum. They captured it during one of the many wars.

[1rudeboy]

Yes. To keep it from rolling away, silly.

[BBell]

Could be, I had not noticed it before.

[BBell]

The Israelis captured it from the Syrians during the 6 day war.

[1rudeboy]

The one behind it is “chained” down, LOL.

[Paladin2]

It’d be fun to use it to shoot down avalanches. Or to take to the range to shoot trap.

[headstamp 2]

Its been de-milled. (grin)

[alfa6]

“Or to take to the range to shoot trap.”

Here’s your range mate :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c9NQjE_q3U

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[laplata]

It would still be fun to drive around the neighbor hood.

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It wood be fun to drive around the Hood, too.

[PLMerite]

Golan Heights, I believe.

[RitchieAprile]

That’s the Taggart Fort at Latrun. Out front is a memorial wall with the names of the fallen from the Armored Corps in all of Israel’s wars.

[9422WMR]

Wheel chock!