...and posting has been tough. Not to mention catching up from being gone.
This will keep the Usual Suspects® busy:
What is it, who's is it, where is it?
Feh. We need to get rich, so we can just run a T1 out here and not worry about it!
This will keep the Usual Suspects® busy:
What is it, who's is it, where is it?
Feh. We need to get rich, so we can just run a T1 out here and not worry about it!
Developed in 1933 by the Disston Safe Company. Built on a Caterpiller tractor model 35 or 40. In 1934 an improved model was made mounting a 37mm main gun in an open top. 26 tanks were produced in the USA, 16 going to the USMC and the remainder going to Afghanistan.
My guess is that it is at Camp Pendleton.
Aimed by pointing.
Space for "mission module" on bustle.
Looks to me like something put together by the guys at the local Legion or VFW Post........just because they could..........
I'm sure the story is going to be good on this one.
Ouch, Mikey! That was a low blow!
If you don't believe you must be a (INSULT IN CAPITAL LETTER HERE)
or maybe a movie prop for Red Dawn II
Right off the top, I'd say it looks like an old WWII airfield ground tractor, etc., with a homemade fake turret made to resemble one of the WWII German tanks (PzKw, perhaps?). It is NOT a Disston tractor tank--too many wrong parts, not enough of the right parts to even be a functional tank) And that round 'hatch' on the side looks like an old dustbin lid....
I'd say either a movie prop, a small town parade thing, or the result of some old guy with too much time on his hands... Would have been cool to play on though as a kid...
Can't say where the tank is, but I'm guessing a museum in one of those two cities, probably Stalingrad.
not with an NLOS joke sitting right there staring at me.
Casey - excellent reasoning, but I don't think so. The running gear isn't a match for that. Same general idea, certainly.
Can't place the location, but the tall grasses, evergreens, and broadleaf foliage in the background isn't inconsistent with Missouri, or vaious other midwestern states.
I wanna say "Dominion Tank Police", but that's just because I want a lifetime subscription for "How to Kill" magazine... ;-)
that places this vehicle at the Chelabyinsk depot (near Minsk, just a ruble throw from Pinsk)...
the small etched Cyrillic writing on the right side dampfle plate appears to show a unit designation of (rough translation) "1st Regiment of Horse Cavalry - Katherine's Own"... (probably a hold over from early prototypes)..
i would suspect it is the long rumored (never photographed) Boeyvaya Transportivnaya Kartina Karobka (BTKK 1)...
{sulk}....
Ok, I gave it my best shot, and drew a blank. :) I shall now retire, and enjoy the festivities...