Pzkpfw-e Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/vatryk/view/329954/?page=11 About 10 photos, no date or location given, Russian website. Shows M10s, an M3 Lee/Grant and an interesting Sherman with extra turret armour and a vision-blocked cupola. Be warned, you could (& probably will!) spend hours looking through this guy's photos, there's all sorts of tasty military junk there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Barrell Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Those photos were taken in Blésignac, Aquitaine in France. The M3 is actually an M31 TRV and is one of two there. The interesting Sherman is an early M4A2 with aftermarket applique armour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzkpfw-e Posted January 17, 2011 Author Share Posted January 17, 2011 Even visible on Google Earth Co-ords 44.764486,-0.256833 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveo578 Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 yes it would be an interesting site if it wasn't for the Lada quality download time:undecided: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexton 2080 Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Yes very interesting, I found this on a french forum: le propriétaire n'est pas disposé à se séparer de ces engins quel que soit leur état.. which translates to (according to google translate): the owner is not willing to part with these devices whatever their status .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick W Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 You have to wonder why... What do you know about these Adrian? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Barrell Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 You have to wonder why...What do you know about these Adrian? Not much beyond what has been said. I understand the owner is fed up with being asked and they are definately not for sale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveo578 Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Adrian Barrell .......I understand the owner is fed up with being asked .... On the other hand he is probably about as fed up as other denizens are at having the place look like a set from a Borat movie:-D -simple situation if you don't want people forever asking about the status of the "abandoned property/vehicles" make sure the place doesn't look abandoned. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcspool Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 You have to wonder why... Of course he's going to do them up one day :-D A little longer and the tanks will have been completely overgrown so no-one will notice them anymore and the owner can enjoy them in silence. Here's another Sherman in France, looking quite abandoned: http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/vatryk/view/329982?page=10 Where's Eddy? Ah, he's already on the ferry . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajmac Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 (edited) Eddy doesn't like Shermans*.... well not normal ones at any rate! Don't know how old the owner of the French tanks is but my Dad said of a vehicle we once found and which wasn't forsale as he was going to restore it one day (after the other 25 vehicles he had on this list), "Just wait for him to pass on, you can go to the Auction when the family clear the land" :cry: But near the mark I fear :-D * too well made and reliable Edited January 18, 2011 by ajmac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzkpfw-e Posted January 18, 2011 Author Share Posted January 18, 2011 Quite a treasure-trove is that fotki.yandex.ru/users/vatryk/ website. Many happy hours haveI spent searching through it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddy8men Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 alastair you're membership of the Armoured Heritage Group will be revoked if you continue to fraternise with sherman owners eddy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajmac Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 (edited) .....but if such fraternisation was with people who's M4 based vehicles were marked up as in British use it would be ok? Article 27, paragraph 4 if I recall correctly. Edited January 18, 2011 by ajmac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Barrell Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 alastair you're membership of the Armoured Heritage Group will be revoked if you continue to fraternise with sherman owners eddy I feel so used.......:blush: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveo578 Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 ajmac Article 27, paragraph 4 if I recall correctly. I thought Article27, paragraph 4 stated that "no member of AHG shall use vindaloo paste as a metal cleaning medium":D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Barrell Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 I thought Article27, paragraph 4 stated that "no member of AHG shall use vindaloo paste as a metal cleaning medium":D. This place gets more like Red Dwarf by the hour....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddy8men Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 adrian don't feel bad, owning a cromwell automatically gets you into the AHG. membership perks include. 1. unlimited use of the forum to help other members solve their technical problems 2. free use of clubhouse facilities (my shed) when the kids aren't using it 3. annual subscription to club newsletter( pm saying merry xmas) 4. free use of other members facilities, to include workshop areas, cranes/lifting gear,tools, plant and unlimited free labour, (however this rule would also apply to you ) 5. a warm fuzzy feeling knowing you've helped get my tanks back on the road membership applications should be sent to ivor biggun 20 park drive marlboro sh1 tty AHG making the dream come true :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveo578 Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 Adrian Barrell This place gets more like Red Dwarf by the hour....... At least some-one else watches decent stuff. I considered the original Red Dwarf Criton false teeth quote but forum rules would forbid it;) Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mash Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Yes very interesting, I found this on a french forum: le propriétaire n'est pas disposé à se séparer de ces engins quel que soit leur état.. which translates to (according to google translate): the owner is not willing to part with these devices whatever their status .. The owner possibly changing his mind?? http://www.milweb.net/classifieds/large_image.php?ad=56556&cat=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddy8men Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 (edited) well spotted dave, i was looking at that sherman this morning (i want to join the sherman gang) and wondering what value you would put on an empty turretless hull ? even in that condition i reckon on £25k, anyone else got an idea on price i can see 10 tanks parked up gently rusting away Edited March 13, 2011 by eddy8men Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Barrell Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 (i want to join the sherman gang) Not sure we want you after what you've said in the past.........:n00b: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajmac Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 If you want a good basis for a Sherman restoration project I'd plumb for Pakistan or Argentina, all you need are some good connections. As Pakistan is on the corrupt side it would be the ideal place to aquire wartime armour, however I'd bank on the best purchase angle being an individual and the best transport angle being a company or 'official' organisation, say AHG Thinking again, perhaps Serbia or other former Yugoslavian countries would be a closer trip, they have 75mm Shermans with 76mm main guns fitted, I've seen some photos of them dotted around..... and we have all seen Kellys Heros! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddy8men Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 adrian i don't think you have to worry just yet, my ego's writing cheques my body can't cash there's a sherman project for sale in holland i think, for £60k which seems reasonable and also an arv in greece for £30k but whether that could be converted back into a gun tank i don't know. i wouldn't like to try and deal with pakistan unless you had an inside man, i think there's plenty still in europe to be had you just have to try and get to them before they reach the open market and the price picks up. eddy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Scott Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Hi Eddy , In my limited experience of Tank restoration , buying the empty hull would be the cheap and easy bit !! ,then theres the export licence you would have to get ,(3 - 6 months ) the cost of the restoration and finding all the missing parts would be the hard part and a bottomless pit in terms of money , i dont think they would turn out to be very cheap at the end of the project . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Barrell Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 All true I'm afraid. If you want a collection of cheap tanks you have to do what I did and get them twenty years ago! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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