Dude must have a rather large basement, with a sturdy foundation. 😀
I’m having a time just scoring 10mm....
What’s the world coming to when you can’t keep a Panther tank in your basement?
The elderly man should be tankful that it’s not an atom bomb in his basement.
Elderly gentleman: “Honest, I didn’t know it was down there, I never go downstairs”.
6 Years ago. Things are slow in the media.
It does not appear that the tank owner was manufacturing, selling or transporting of weapons of war.
”He was chugging around in that thing during the snow catastrophe in 1978," town mayor said.
That was 43 years ago and 33 years after the war. The tank was not a secret in the town. Why the gestapo tactics now?
[P.S. My iPhone does not recognize the word “gestapo.” I guess Apple does not want us using that word.]
The thing didn’t move. Unless he had ammo for it, it was actually just scrap iron he kept in the basement.
The thing probably belongs in a museum, but for about 20 years after the war it was just considered scrap metal by most. Destroying his basement to remove it a hurry seems silly.
He should have fired it up and driven to Meuse River.
I love the FR humor.
Good thing this was in Germany and not in West Virginia or western PA. Nancy Pelosi would refortify the Capitol and the dems would spend the next three years investigating the impending blitzkrieg against DC.
it’s not a Panzer, a Panther, nor a Tiger. In fact it’s not even German, it’s a British-designed Centurion tank. The key identifying characteristics are six road wheels with a noticeable gap between the 2nd and 3rd road wheels, live track, and large sponson boxes mounted on the flanks of the turret (so the Tommys could carry their tea service into battle).
Nor is it WWII vintage because the Centurion didn’t begin being produced until 1946. The bore evacuator on the main gun tube indicates it’s even newer than that, or at the very least it’s had significant armament updates since manufacture, probably 1960 or later. In any case it definitely hasn’t been sitting in somebody’s basement since the battle of the Bulge.
I would imagine. Shipping charges would be a bitch too.
The Panther Mark 5 was one of the best medium tanks of WW2. It’s high velocity 75 mm main gun was a real tank killer.
In my opinion it’s about the coolest looking tank there ever was.
Panther Panzer who cares? Just so you got 88 mm ordnance.
You can “adjust” many things with ordnance.
5.56mm
the top pic isn’t even German, it’s Russian... and not that old, looks 60’s vintage
you can tell by the roadwheels the bore-evqacuator and mantlet
