For sale: Nazi German tanks - Page 2

PzJgr · #26 (**permalink**) March 6th, 2008, 01:37 AM

I agree with Carl, what is left of them don't look too bad. I bet the Bulgarians are scratching their heads and wondering why anyone would want them.

C.Evans · #27 (**permalink**) March 7th, 2008, 10:39 PM

Hi Ike, heck, if I had access to enough money, i'd buy all of em-at least just to make sure they deteriorate no more. I know the guy in California who has over 200 Armored vehicles in his collection would probably love to get his mitts on these. He has a fulltime staff of six Mechanics restoring his collection, and BOy what a collection he has.

PzJgr · #28 (**permalink**) March 7th, 2008, 10:42 PM

Wow. That is a lot of $$$ involved there. Oh, to be him.

Von Poop · #29 (**permalink**) March 7th, 2008, 10:51 PM

I'm assuming you chaps mean Jaques Littlefield ?

A man who defines vehicles in his collection as 'rare'... If he has the worlds only survivor.

A nice glimpse of his collection:
February 24, 2007 - Tour of Jaques Littlefield's Military Vehicle Technology Foundation
An the official, but somewhat 'thin' website:
Military Vehicle Technology Foundation
Forbes Interview:
http://www.jacqueslittlefield.com/ar...besarticle.pdf

Cheers,
Adam.

C.Evans · #30 (**permalink**) March 8th, 2008, 08:03 PM

Hi Ike, Adam,

Ike, he's estimated to be worth about 4 billion $$$

Adam, that's the man. Also, there is another very rich fellow who lives up North somewhere who also has a large collection of Armored vehicles-most are WWII. This guy I last heard, was actively gleening museums in Europe in hopes of scoring a Tiger tank that was reportedly for sale-somewhere in Germany.

There is another collector who lives only several miles from me who is working on a deal to buy a fully functional Tiger tank. I don't know what he plans to do with it but, he does have all the papers and permission he needs, to own such a vehicle.

JCFalkenbergIII · #31 (**permalink**) March 13th, 2008, 10:33 PM

Bulgaria's WWII tanks to go under hammer
Thu Mar 13, 12:28 PM ET

SOFIA (AFP) - Bulgaria is to auction off World War II Panzer tanks thought to be worth millions of dollars, the country's defence ministry said Thursday.
"People from all over the world, from America to Jordan, have declared an interest in these rare German tanks," the deputy director of Sofia's military history museum, Blagoy Milenov, told a press conference.
Six Panzer IV tanks will go under the hammer on March 19 "to gauge their value," with another 41 going on the market in May, according to Emil Petrov, a defence ministry heritage official.
A Russian collector has already offered five million leva (2.5 million euros, 3.6 million dollars) to buy one such model held by the museum, Milenov has said.
Eight of the best-preserved have been recovered by the museum with some set to be exchanged with German counterparts. Parts from among the most dilapidated have been used in restoration of the auction lot.
Most of Bulgaria's tanks were smelted down, Petrov said, adding that 2,500 Soviet-era models were destroyed between 2006 and 2007.
The former communist regime intentionally buried others on its frontier with Turkey, which was a member of the rival North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. The tanks acted as a Cold War line of defence should NATO forces attack.
After the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact in 1991, these tanks and their adjacent bunkers were eventually forgotten by the army, but not by the looters. They moved in to strip and sell the guns, hatches, even whole turrets for scrap -- a lucrative business in cash-hungry Bulgaria.

Bulgaria's WWII tanks to go under hammer - Yahoo! News

JCFalkenbergIII · #32 (**permalink**) March 16th, 2008, 01:29 AM

A German Jagdpanzer IV L/48 tank recovered from Bulgaria's southeastern border with Turkey. Bulgaria is to auction off World War II Panzer tanks thought to be worth millions of dollars.

Za Rodinu · #33 (**permalink**) March 16th, 2008, 12:37 PM

Hen's teeth!

C.Evans · #34 (**permalink**) March 16th, 2008, 09:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JCFalkenbergIII

Bulgaria's WWII tanks to go under hammer
Thu Mar 13, 12:28 PM ET

SOFIA (AFP) - Bulgaria is to auction off World War II Panzer tanks thought to be worth millions of dollars, the country's defence ministry said Thursday.
"People from all over the world, from America to Jordan, have declared an interest in these rare German tanks," the deputy director of Sofia's military history museum, Blagoy Milenov, told a press conference.
Six Panzer IV tanks will go under the hammer on March 19 "to gauge their value," with another 41 going on the market in May, according to Emil Petrov, a defence ministry heritage official.
A Russian collector has already offered five million leva (2.5 million euros, 3.6 million dollars) to buy one such model held by the museum, Milenov has said.
Eight of the best-preserved have been recovered by the museum with some set to be exchanged with German counterparts. Parts from among the most dilapidated have been used in restoration of the auction lot.
Most of Bulgaria's tanks were smelted down, Petrov said, adding that 2,500 Soviet-era models were destroyed between 2006 and 2007.
The former communist regime intentionally buried others on its frontier with Turkey, which was a member of the rival North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. The tanks acted as a Cold War line of defence should NATO forces attack.
After the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact in 1991, these tanks and their adjacent bunkers were eventually forgotten by the army, but not by the looters. They moved in to strip and sell the guns, hatches, even whole turrets for scrap -- a lucrative business in cash-hungry Bulgaria.

Bulgaria's WWII tanks to go under hammer - Yahoo! News

I'd love to see an aerial view of those six and 41 German tanks all-together in a field. That would probably be the first time since WWII, that so many German tanks were together in a close formation.

ghost_of_war · #35 (**permalink**) March 17th, 2008, 01:56 PM

I'll take that Hetzer over there for $200, Alex....