Just watched Pt 2 and there are some tasty bits in there the boys are fishing as they seemed to be very interested in Tiger 1 bits and bob's it's going to take years to get the Tiger running I hope I'm here long enough to witness it lumbering around their track in Qld.
These guys in Panzer land are on another level our guys do it the hard way but on the farm they have dedicated work areas for particular trades & builds they even have a large CNC machine which would be a godsend for our lot here in Aus.
I follow them every Wednesday it's my favourite show I've watched the Tiger 1 & Jagdpanther rebuilds a few times just awesome so is the Grant tank resto' another good series.
Cinders, years ago while visiting the Yanks Air Museum in Chino, California I was surprised to see an M3 Lee undergoing restoration. I asked the docent why an aircraft museum was restoring a Lee tank only to be corrected and told it was a Grant, from Australia no less. At the time, I was unaware of the Aussies utilizing Grant tanks which after some research found that the Aussies received 700 - 800 of these tanks although none of the Australian Grant tanks were used outside of Oz. Also found was the Australian conversions of the M3 to a single BARV and several Yeramba SPGs. The Grant was in excellent condition and was told that several Australian Grants were held in reserve for quite a few years after the war and eventually sold to civilians. I imagine this was one of those. I took a few pictures of the tank and if I can dredge the prints up from deep storage I'll post them here.
I was saving this one for another thread but decided it fits better here, here is a Grant at a very small outback museum undergoing resto a very very long process due to low volunteer numbers and the isolated area.
It has all the goodies the boys were missing from their Grant tank including the aero engine the turrets outside they had another fully running resto'ed one but it was sold under dubious circumstances to an over east buyer for $90K who on sold it to a USA buyer for $250K !
They also had a WWII radio command truck there I'll see if I can find those pics it was sold along with a bit more stuff to keep them going sad but I doubt the Grant will ever be finished.
It's at Kukerin (Cook - er - rin) well worth going there they do a good gunfire breakfast on a Sunday and the pubs spot on lotsa memorabilia there and well done up a typical wheatbelt pub.
Didn't know the Grant had an aircraft engine too...knew about the M10 having one. Then I look a bit... " The U.S. Army's first lineage of tanks evolved from the M1 Combat Car and progressed to the M2 Light Tank, M2 Medium Tank, M3 Lee, and finally the M4 Sherman. These tanks all had rear-mounted Continental air-cooled radial aircraft engines and a front sprocket drive. "
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