A fully restored Panzer tank being removed from an 84-year-old German man’s basement.
I wonder what this is worth today?
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Millions.
You should watch this tv programme if this sort of stuff floats your boat.
A lot of ex WW2 vehicles on there that buy and sell for an absolute fortune.
And the guy is a multi millionaire I would say.
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Yeah, I caught some of that series, The rich guy always made me smile when he emphasised his words, his mouth was just like Wallace out of Wallace & Grommet.
I bet he was really p*ssed off when he found the war had ended!
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Combat dealers actually restored a P V Panther.It was shipped to an Australian tank museum.
But Bovington has the only working Tiger left in the world.
Is there a record of the history of that particular tank…where it operated, where it was captured?
I don’t know, my mate just sent me that pic.
Almost. That is the only working Tiger 1.
Here is Tiger 2 being hand started!
I’ve seen this one a few years ago at Battle of the Bulge museum.
A hell of a sight seeing it in real life.
I asked my mate (he lives in Germany) if he had any info on this Panzer tank & he said the authorities found a lot of Third Reich stuff along with numerous firearms & an anti-aircraft gun, he was in for a €500k fine for keeping banned weapons in Germany.
We have bins for illegal knives, but…!
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Yes it was damaged in North Africa by a lucky shot that seems to have jammed it’s turret and the crew abandoned it and it was captured and sent back here for evaluation for intelligence.
By all accounts it was found to match its reputation.
That would always be prefixed as King Tiger or Royal Tiger.
Tiger by definition means Tiger 1 P VI.
King Tiger is P VI B.
Obviously got relatively more chance with a Sherman Firefly v a P V Panther or Tiger ( 1 ) than a King Tiger.
I’d prefer to take my chances with just a 17 pounder gun than sitting in the Sherman death trap in either case.
These could all logically be categorised as armoured self propelled anti tank artillery with the exception of a turret.The Tiger and King Tiger also going large on the armour side of the equation.
Which was then taken forward with the post War Main Battle Tank again mainly all about destroying enemy tanks.
Recent modern developments would suggest that tanks are now more vulnerable than they are worth.More and better artillery is the way to go as it probably always was.
This might be of interest to some.
Bruce shows military vets around his private collection of WW2 vehicles, equipment and militaria.
Contrary to the silly scenario in the movie Fury the 88 gun was effective at beyond visual ranges and quite capable of taking out an allied tank and its crew by just the spalling caused by a non penetrative hit.
