An interesting road call. Jump start a Stug tank..

[Breakaway500]

Not a call you get every day. It seems someone in town ordered a STug from the U.K. and when it arrived the truck driver could not make it up the guys driveway.
They dropped it on the state 2 lane road...however the truck driver had left the ignition on when he loaded it days before, and they were now dead.
He knew the chief in town who is an avid gun enthusiast, who then called me, as no one had a clue how to jump start the 24V beast.
I told the chief to bring down the Civil Defense Hummer the town owns and I'd meet him at the scene.
Lots of very curious passerbys watching a Hummer jump a Tank! That's me in the camo jumpsuit..I just happened to be outfitted proper!

All in the little town of Oakham.

 

[s&wchad]

Mother's Day gift???

I'm guessing it didn't do the driveway any good.

 

[Breakaway500]

It has rubber tracks so didn't bother the asphalt much. The new owner intends to install a Tiger turret on this chassis. He just happens to have a spare one in his garage...

The things people collect!

 

[lihpster]

Well, if they don't find you handsome they should at least find you handy.

Just kidding. That looks like fun. The town I grew up in had an old steam locomotive in the park. It was just parked on a section of track just long enough to chock the front and back wheels and hadn't run in decades. I always wanted to get it started.

 

[FPrice]

Oakham?

Dang, that's just a couple of dozen miles from me.

 

[Welder1]

Glad to see normal stuff still happens somewhere in MA!

 

[fordson]

That's not a "real" Sturmgeschütz III is it? The running gear and tracks look like they're from Chaffee M-24 and not the Panzer Mk III or IV on which the STUG was based.

 

[Breakaway500]

Glad to see normal stuff still happens somewhere in MA!

Trust me..not everyone in Ma is...abby-normal oriented...

 

[Breakaway500]

That's not a "real" Sturmgeschütz III is it? The running gear and tracks look like they're from Chaffee M-24 and not the Panzer Mk III or IV on which the STUG was based.

Im not sure..I honestly don't know much about military equipment other than tidbits I have picked up from TV or occasional reading.

The new owners said it was a "Stug"..and although it had german insignia and writing on the exterior..the interior had english writing on the controls etc. and the bogie wheels said "made in England" on them. The engine was a Rolls Royce 6 cyl supercharged diesel...and I really doubt the germans would have been using them in vehicles.

It is probably a composite of vehicles dressed up as a german Stug...nevertheless...pretty impressive regardless of originality.

 

[Peak53]

Are there bears in the neighborhood?

 

[tops]

What caliber is the big gun and does he have ammo? Larry

 

[S42N8]

Are there bears in the neighborhood?

We have a new entrant in the "Is XX enough for bear" thread!

 

[Rustyt1953]

Tanks for the pics.





I'll be in my room.

 

[Steve912]

I'd hate to know what shipping cost

 

[LVSteve]

Looks like a M24 Chaffee dressed up to look like Stug. All Stugs had six or more road wheels, this has five. What I don't understand is that the idler wheels are in the wrong configuration, more Walker Bulldog.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Is it built like a Ruger?

 

[Engineer1911]

Knowing almost nothing about tanks, big with a gun, if a older vehicle needs parts; use what you can get.

My question is: What does he use for a reloading press and are primers hard to buy? You can't conceal carry a gun in MA but you can back a tank / cannon up your driveway?

An amazing collector piece to own. New in the crate?

 

[swsig]

...
It is probably a composite of vehicles dressed up as a german Stug...nevertheless...pretty impressive regardless of originality.

It's one of those "ghost tanks". Probably doesn't have a serial number, either.

 

[Kurusu]

It has rubber tracks so didn't bother the asphalt much. The new owner intends to install a Tiger turret on this chassis. He just happens to have a spare one in his garage...

The things people collect!

A tiger turret!? On a STug III?!

Is your neighbour's name Bubba?

 

[mtgianni]

Just out of curiosity, does the Hummer have dual batteries? [Disconnect the system, link in series and jump?]

If I lived there I would sell Oakham, Razors.