Outside the village of Vimoutiers in Normandy stands a Tiger tank abandoned by the retreating Germans when it ran out of fuel in 1944. Why don't they restore and sell it? It's probably worth millions. If I was Bezos or Musk I'd happily drop ten million on a fully-running Tiger to ride around in.
how much is your ass worth op?
I'm out of your league darling.
so about 17 bux
If they wanted to they would, they don’t want to
they tried to scrap it several times and failed lol. The French, never change.
>failed
Quiters to the end.
>hurrrhurrr le funny maymay
When there's the equivalent of a whole army of ready-to-scrap steel easily accessible, guess what, the hull that slipped halfway down a steep slope isn't the highest priority.
Touchy lil' Frenchie.
>It's probably worth millions
To who? Restorations are almost exclusively government-funded or done at the hobbyist level by a team of devoted people doing it out of their own pocket.
Interesting question actually. Things are worth what people will pay for them. But there isn't a market for Tiger tanks because nobody is selling them. And so long as nobody is selling them, nobody knows what it's worth. The only way to know is to hold an auction for one, which nobody will do.
At this point that tank is simultaneously worth nothing and everything and everything inbetween.
The suspension looks collapsed, like the bottom hull rotted out or was damaged?
Too fricked up basically.
But meanwhile at the Musée des Blindés in Saumur France.
Almost 250k€ collected to restore the last "complete" one.
If I were rich I'd restore one paint it pink and host gay orgies in it.
>If I were rich I'd restore one paint it pink and host gay orgies in it.
Just as Ernst Rohm intended
I think that leaving the tank in such a dilapidated state is a good monument to the failure of the Nazis. Fixing it up and making it pretty would only serve to make happy the bootlicking fascist coomers who drool over such things
Good Lord was that really the best you could do? Not worthy of a (you). Embarrassing.
you do understand there are restored tiger tanks and preserving history is not a political thing
>w…we should restore all of these to new condition! It’s… history!!!
The cars in that picture are being used to keep other cars running, so there goes your argument.
Also, if you can't differentiate between a left behind Tiger tank that participated in the largest war in history and an Oldsmobile Alero that participated in last week's demolition derby, then you're a moron.
Surely it generates more money as a pull for tourists than anything else.
It's a fricking empty hull.
The Germans detonated a charge inside, scrappers took the easily accessible parts before scrapping was stopped.
Some holes have been patched with armored panels from panzerIV's, and the peeks from inside I took only made me realize it's a pile of mangled rust held together by paint and good wishes.
Saumur's tiger is getting a full restoration to running status however.
Tigers were one of the dumbest tanks of the war and a product of Hitler's mental illness.
It's just a more fat version of pz4 and there is nothing wrong with it
Too much for the German logistics to support and maintain.
Not as difficult as ensuring logistics for Görings fat ass to move around.
The Tiger I was the best heavy of WWII, comparatively the best tank. The KV could had been the same if russians didn't use a worse gun than the T-34 (and transmission).
The Tiger II was a regression but it had far better armor and gun.
I'd argue the Panther got it worse. Where meddling really did screw the final product. So even if the crews were good, they were fighting against their own vehicle at times.
The Tiger was a very good tank with very well-trained crews, until the support system needed to use it effectively (Railroads, repair depots, training facilities) fell apart.
It was hands-down the best tank of WWII. It didn't attain legendary status for nothing, it was given that by the men who used it and those who faced it.
I can fix her
Classic white knight. But imagine the smell?
>Why don't they restore and sell it? It's probably worth millions. If I was Bezos or Musk I'd happily drop ten million on a fully-running Tiger
Do you have any idea how massive an undertaking this would be? One Tiger and one Tiger II have been restored to running condition and in both cases the vehicles were in a better starting condition than this one probably is, it took years and required world class expertise. This isn't like some classic car.
>This isn't like some classic car.
>Thinking the Red Bull Messerschmitts are easier
>10 million
it needs an engine and parts that haven't been manufactured for nearly 90 years, the one running tiger in the world at Bovington requires a frickton of slow and expensive custom maintenance to get it running each year. its like a fricking 40k Dreadnought brought out of hibernation to do a short performance for the crowd before being sent back to the shop to fix the 20 next things about to break and custom make parts that haven't been manufactured in nearly 90 years
>it needs an engine
Engine swap from diesel Rabbit should do. They are metric, too.
>Bovington
>Tiger Day imminent
>frick all south
Could you put it any further south and not sink it?
why not 3d print anything needed?
no need to fully restore it.a visual restoration is good enough becuase nobody is going to look inside
If I had the money I'd restore it and paint it nerf colors
Which Nerf colors?
I will judge you on your answer.
yellow, orange, and gray obviously
Weak b8