This one, I think:
Posted on 10/01/2017 9:32:28 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
A history buff in Texas shelled out some $600,000 for a fully functional World War II tank -- but now that it's parked outside his multimillion-dollar home, it's ruffling feathers in his neighborhood.
Attorney Tony Buzbee of River Oaks said he bought the tank overseas last year.
“Took a year to get here, but now it’s on River Oaks Boulevard,” Buzbee told KHOU Houston. “This particular tank landed at Normandy. It liberated Paris, and ultimately went all the way to Berlin. There’s a lot of history here.”
However, the homeowners association sent him a letter saying the tank “impedes traffic” and causes a “safety issue” and “serious concerns for neighbors,” according to the report.
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Yeah, I wouldn’t have spent all that money for the 75 mm version!!
At the time the Sherman was designed and first built, the Panther and Tiger did not exist. The 75mm gun was more superior to the German MK III and the early MK IV tanks that were the bulk of German armor in 1941.
Now that, sir, is funny.....
Now that s BIG motor!!!!
musta been a SOB to work on
Always with the negative ways Moriarity.
Negative “waves”...
Definitely gives new authority behind that remark.
Quantity has a quality all it's own.
Right.
That’s a beautiful Sherman!
When I was a kid, there was an outfit in Houston that was refurbishing Shermans for the Korean war. Their test track was just across the railroad tracks from the right field wall of the old Houston Buffaloes stadium.
When the baseball games got slow, we kids used to watch the tanks racing over and through obstacles and off jump-ramps, etc...
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That would have been pretty cool for any youngster.
Heck, how about an old youngster? I would go see that!
This one, I think:
The pic you tried to link is blocked from embedding or hotlinking by the picture’s owner. This is the M4A3E2 Sherman ‘Jumbo’; in fact this is the last known running Jumbo: http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/M4A3E2-picture-001.jpg
I’m wrong then, the one in my pic has a long barrel and a muzzle brake. Must be a Firefly. Thanks!
Many Jumbos were rebuilt later in the war to mount the 76mm gun - which usually had a long barrel and muzzlebrake - to create the M4A3E2(76).
That one good looking tank!
Good Thread! bttt
River Oaks is one of the ritziest areas in Houston.
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Yep. The tank owner dropped some $14 million on his home purchase
in River Oaks back in 2013.
Here’s a video of the owner with a Fox reporter that shows the tank and it’s delivery.
Don’t buy houses in shitty neighborhoods maybe?
HOA’s are Tyranny. Period.
If I own the property and my house I should be able to do ..... WHATEVER I WANT ON IT.
Should you be able to lower your neighbor’s property value? Should you be able to make all kinds of noise at all hours of the night? Should you be able to park a stinking garbage truck in front of your house and stink up the neighborhood? Should you be able to dry your stinking commercial fishing nets in your driveway?
You buy a home in a neighborhood with deed restrictions, you abide by the rules you agreed to.
You’re the kind of “neighbor” that makes HOAs necessary.
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