now THIS is a barn find!

http://www.milweb.net/features/m3a1_stuart_tank.php

 

I wonder if that rotary engine would fit in a T-bucket?

 

How much? I wold like one to drive to work. Don't cut me off, you bastard!

 

Sweet find

 

wanna run a red light? dont want hassled by the "man" then....COME ON DOWN TO CRAZY EDDIES....OUR PRICES ARE .......INSAANNNEEE!

 

Too bad he didn't post some of the "as-found" pics from Brazil.

 

HAHA!!! I NEED one of these!!!!



The ultimate grocery getter!!! Do chicks dig tanks??

 

They love a connon that can shoot more than once.

 

I suspect those in the background would be a hint. I went with a buddy to look @ some '60s 300s & the guy had a half-track that the County had converted the rear body into a bucket truck configuration.

 

As an ex tanker in the US Army this is pretty bad ass. I drove the M1A1's which were powered by a helicopter turbine engine. yeah pretty bad ass but these were the days when the name "Rolling coffin" came about. Those were some brave men taking these into battle. Very very cool. What a hobby huh.

 

[quote="Whitey Ford" 62 Uni;3566123]As an ex tanker in the US Army this is pretty bad ass. I drove the M1A1's which were powered by a helicopter turbine engine. yeah pretty bad ass but these were the days when the name "Rolling coffin" came about. Those were some brave men taking these into battle. Very very cool. What a hobby huh.[/quote]


as an infantry support vehicle, probably pretty cool...for running away from Tigers not so cool...

 

Sod this, I'm off to BUY me one!!!!!
I think one of those would put the wind up your boss!!!

Nick.

 

Lots of cool crap down there.I have an acquaintance that brings war birds out of there.Another guy went into a warehouse with lots of HD 45s.

 

WOw, how amazing.

 

Ah to have that kind of capitol. "Why? Because I can."

 

Those boys had balls. Stuarts were outgunned by anything but a carbine and our boys put em up against Panzers!

 

Awesome!

 

mhm..i got me 10 of those in my back yard right now..my boys are actually playing with them as we speak.

 

Thats freakin cool

 

Way back in 1959, when I was in the reserves in Vernon, our squadron was switched from the Shermans to the Stewart ( which we called the Honey ), and we became a
recce squadron.
We thought it was a bad deal until we got to operate them. They went like
hell! Ours had the twin Cadillac engines, and was able to go over 40mph.
40mph on tracks isn't quite like 40 in a car, you wonder if the whole thing
is going to explode. The noise is unbelievable.
I would not have wanted to go to war in one, but apparently the crews in North Africa liked them as a recce vehicle.
Bob

 

Check out the history area of the magazine rack at Barnes and Noble...one of the current military vehicle magazines has an article on these with quite a few pics.