WWII German Tank Found In German Man's Basement

Old news for I knew about it in another forum site. Cool yet illegal according to German laws. The big question is how big is this villa basement was it to keep both stored for so long?

More pics:

www.thelocal.de/.../second-world-war-weapons-haul-recovered-from-cellar

A very nice 1:1 Panther and it looks in pretty good shape too.

Was it properly weathered?

So?  I have two tanks in my basement, each holds 50 gallons of water and keeps it hot.

Never-mind about whether or not it was properly weathered.

Did it have a big  Confederate Battle Flag on the turret roof?

He did  good job cleaning it up since the end of WW2 though.... LOL!

Another crazy thought that they were stored in a bunker prior becoming a villa.

According to the bbc he drove it around town during the winter, back in the '80s.

Maybe the German gov't said it was hidden because they have so many of 'em being driven on the streets in Germany..............hard to pick out just one Panther V in so many thousands of Panther V s

So since I found the same information, different text from two sources:

This particular tank was built after the war at the factory, under the supervision of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, for performance evaluation. There were others as well. After it served it's purpose in England, it was sent to a junk yard. The owner bought it there in 1977 and brought it to Germany, where he kept it in a storage garage.

It's been confiscated because of course he couldn't produce the necessary "PAPERS!"

My own guess something to do with taxes.

It'd appear that about two dozen Panthers, plus some Hunters are still around, plus a couple of carcasses, turrets etc.

Poor guy was just one locomotive away from a post apocalyptic tank wagon.

GMorrison

So since I found the same information, different text from two sources:

This particular tank was built after the war at the factory, under the supervision of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, for performance evaluation. There were others as well. .......................

.................film footage of Horsa gliders being towed aloft and German Panther tanks- real German Panther tanks- attacking British paratroopers.......................

I always wondered why the movie had access to so many fully functioning Panther tanks

CN Spots

Poor guy was just one locomotive away from a post apocalyptic tank wagon.

....and then the German gov't steam punked him 

It never could run. It had a Lucas electrical system...

GMorrison

It never could run. It had a Lucas electrical system...

LOL...............

Neighbors see the tank and be like "Oh Crap!  Its happening again!"

So, it really is a Panther? I thought Panthers were designed well after WWII ended.

Its a Panther Pzkfw V,since you're Devil Dawg i'm guessing all cats look alike? maybe you're thinking of the Leopard?

Uhhhh, no. As I mentioned in the initial post, I am in no way a tank expert. I do know that the German word for Panther is Panzer, and that's about as far my knowledge of German tanks go, other than Tiger tanks were used quite a bit in WWII.

Just kidding Devil Dawg,just kidding

I know. 

The German word for Panther is not panzer. The German word for tank, before that coat of mail; is panzer.

The German word for panther is panther.

The German word for tiger is tiger, and the German phrase for Bengal Tiger is Konigstiger, which does not mean King Tiger.

The Panther was a midwar design based on the encounter with the Russian T-34, the best medium tank in 1942. As usual, the Germans took something very simple, easy to build and operate, and created something big, complicated, difficult to build and requiring trained crews.

GMorrison

........... As usual, the Germans took something very simple, easy to build and operate, and created something big, complicated, difficult to build and requiring trained crews.

But

    Look at the pictures agin guys !

It couldn;t go anywhere .It didn't have tracks on it ! The law is simple  .Pay a very big tax and you can have a de-militarized vehicle . I/E No Breech , no MG and certainly none of these funny shaped things that were called " Bullets " . Oh , and NONE of those objectional markings either !

True about the "Konig".   Its bizarre how it works actually.  "Konig" literally translates to "King".  However the Deutsch Language does not refer to the Bengal Tiger as a "Bengal" Tigerlike we do.  Its Konigtiger.  Basically adding the Konig (King) differentiates the subject by its size or strength and applies it to a specific species.  Similar to how English refers to the "King Cobra".  We are applying this "King" name to a specific creature.   We don't mean its Royalty or King of Snakes.  We use King to mean Big, Large or powerful (get your mind out of the gutter.  I know some of you went there ;)   and separate it from the common cobra.

Lots think it means King Tiger literally but the Germans didn't mean it in that way.  They had a vision of a Bengal Tiger when they named the tank.  Which just happens to have "King" tacked on the front referring to a different type of Tiger.  The Bengal.

Any news on where it wound up...or is gonna wind up at?

I haven't been able to locate any recent news in the German language internet sites.

The info is all dated from the time of the initial story.

https://www.google.de/?gws_rd=ssl#q=panther+V+und+FLAK+88

Probably the best method would be to find out what district the tank was found and then occasionally check for on-line news for the area.

Per this news article, it must have been seized in schleswig-holstein

http://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/schleswig-holstein/Schweres-Geschuetz-Behoerden-ermitteln,munitionsfund124.html

Heikendorf, which is down river from Kiel.

 danke schön