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If you find a tank in your tool shed...

By The Armorer on January 8, 2008 | | Comments (6)

...when you move those boxes and artillery pieces, you might be an Australian Redneck!

Rod's M3

Buddy of mine in Australia has decided it's time to get his M3 Lee in shape.

It looks bad - but it runs. Well, it did until he broke the fuel pump when they starved it trying to maneuver the tank into position to get it on the trailer.

And yes, he has the turret, too.

Hopefully, this will be a project we can keep tabs on. Be fun to watch it morph from what it is now, to a fully restored beast!

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By MajMike on January 8, 2008 11:51 AM
lovely little beastie... all she needs is some tender loving care is all...
 
By Murray on January 8, 2008 2:39 PM
I'm free, not too far away and have a slight amount of experience with these tracked beasties. Will work for great wads of cash, speaks semi-local dialect and thinks Indian cricket teams are sooky pull-hards who should spend more time trying to win than burning people in effigy*. *Small town near Dum Dum.
 
By Spanky on January 8, 2008 4:56 PM
I want one
 
By AFSister on January 9, 2008 8:47 AM
Tis much better to have a tank to rehab in your back shed, than one under your child's school. Not to mention the numerous unexploded ordinances found around the school and the houses that surround it. Man. Somebody's gonna get fired over this one.
 
By John of Argghhh! on January 9, 2008 10:18 AM
As may well be - but we abandoned places so fast after WWI and WWII who knows where the records went. After all, the French lost an entire bunker complex, eh?
 
By AFSister on January 9, 2008 12:19 PM
The French didn't lose it- the Germans did. The French just disregarded it. feh. But someone out of their goshdarn mind decided not to run a simple metal detector over a bombing practice field before building a school and houses over it. Stupid. So stupid it's almost funny.
 
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