NMNA M1A2 Tank $1500/obo Oregon City, OR

Yup:

http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/cto/5345690680.html

"I have a tank out back behind my barn."

Great, now we're all on watch lists...

For parts, I'm guessing you take modern Mercedes prices and add a few zeros?

I so wanna piss off the neighbors with that. Plus my 7 year old would think it's cool as hell.

Wow.... I don't have a tank in my yard.

And another thing. Maybe I am seeing things. But is that a German tank like this one?

That's not an M1A2 - its a Panther. And its worth 100 times what he's asking. If you've got heavy equipment, BUY IT NOW!

EDIT: The overlapping road-wheels are a dead giveaway. Kazoo Jr. is beside himself that we live on the wrong side of the Country.

Holy crap! Wish I had a space for it!

45 tons of scrap has to be worth more than $1500.

I thought "Panther" as well when I saw the picture. They are rare even in Europe let alone the USA!

It's 100% for sure a Panther, of which there's about 12-15 complete ones left. The features make it look like an Ausf.G which there's only 1 of!

You would need a crane, a ship, and a time Machine to get that one in the condition it is in in the photo.

That is the Littlefield Panther Ausf.A as it sat in a scrapyard over a decade ago.

As it looked about 6 years ago, but I believe it was auctioned off last year.

No title.

Tanks, but no tanks.

Cooter wrote: Tanks, but no tanks.

You win.

Does Aussie collect those too, it is a Panther chassis

Holy E36 M3! If that is real, I hope it sees a proper restoration!

Would that buff out?

In reply to Sil80redtop:

That's actually about right for steel right now.

In reply to Kenny_McCormic:

That's pretty sad.

So apparently my Merc parts analogy wasn't far off.
I remember a show on Discovery a few years back where the engine was a V-12 with pressed together roller bearing cranks .

This makes having a few random non-running Swedish cars in your yard seem pretty trivial, no?

I can't remember where I read this but, a group sent out the engine from a Bf109 to Rolls Royce for a rebuild around 2000. Rolls Royce began the rebuild and informed them that they couldn't do it as the machining tolerances were too tight, even for them. So that Bf109 has a RR Merlin right now. Beyond belief.

that is right around the corner.... more or less (about 10 miles away).

.... and quite a few people say a Panther tank was the best WWII tank made... I remember being at the Armaments museum in Maryland, and talking to the curator about the Panther....

but alas... I can't own it... too tough to get a 4AGE to run it

This is how you get it home ....

Cooter wrote: You would need a crane, a ship, and a time Machine to get that one in the condition it is in in the photo. That is the Littlefield Panther Ausf.A as it sat in a scrapyard over a decade ago.

Yeah, that photo is clearly "found on the internet" and not a photo of the actual tank, if there even is a tank. The phone number on the ad goes to this guy:

https://www.facebook.com/nomadicmechanic/info?tab=overview

markwemple wrote: I can't remember where I read this but, a group sent out the engine from a Bf109 to Rolls Royce for a rebuild around 2000. Rolls Royce began the rebuild and informed them that they couldn't do it as the machining tolerances were too tight, even for them. So that Bf109 has a RR Merlin right now. Beyond belief.

I have read the exact same story.