Having the collection up there in the hills behind me was always an interesting thing. One day I was coming out of the local grocery store and there was a M60 (A2?), the one with the short little barrel, on a similar trailer on the road.
The video that was noted above gives a pretty good idea of what Jacques Littlefield was all about. He was an exceedingly generous man. On his ranch there were a number of railroad loops in various gauges, which he invited live steam clubs to come and run their trains on.
When I met him, he hadn't gotten interested in owning 1:1 AFVs, but he was a good machinist and had a really nice shop. He was building large scale operating tank models. One I remember was a T34 flamethrower tank. I think one day it set the asphalt in his driveway on fire.
I helped design a scaled down exact replica of an Italian chapel in which he had a beautiful organ installed, as that was his interest at the time. Later after I'd left our firm designed his shops.
He was the type that was extremely wealthy, I think his family had a controlling interest in copper mines in Peru, but he drove a blue american station wagon.
I was fond of him and saddened by his early death.
So it was kind of a send-off for me to see that Panther one last time.
Bill