my start in armor...........

By the way, that's cool, Ron. I never had any old tank to play in. Just a bunch of old cars! To this day, I've seen very few real tanks, new or otherwise.

$500 originally, huh?? Wow! Don't you wish you could come across a deal like that now?? My wife would never let me, though! lol

Thanks Chris,

I would indeed be interested in seeing folks with 'their' tanks, real or otherwise.. I suppose there were a few dozen toy tanks before the M3A3 that got me set for the 'big one'!

Bill, MY wife would have no choice if I found a tank for $500 LOL. (I know she'd say 'yes' so I can talk big!)

Ron

Wow, Ron! You were definitely a lucky kid! Growing up on a Naval air station, all I had to climb on in the local junkyard were A-4 Skyhawks, A-7 Corsairs, and SeaSprite helicopters... oh yeah, and about 4 big Constellations, too...and yet somehow, I still build more armor!

Chris, that bike-tank was great! I'd say it's definitely a Leopard I hull, with maybe a Maus turret!

QUOTE: Originally posted by J-Hulk Wow, Ron! You were definitely a lucky kid! Growing up on a Naval air station, all I had to climb on in the local junkyard were A-4 Skyhawks, A-7 Corsairs, and SeaSprite helicopters... oh yeah, and about 4 big Constellations, too...and yet somehow, I still build more armor!

Funny you say, that, Brian. I didn't grow up on a base, but when I was a kid in New Jersey the 60's many of the warships the US used in World War II were being slowly torn into scrap at a port near where I lived. My dad used to bring us kids to see the ships now and then. Mom and dad would point to the ships and say their names, usually place names -- states and cities -- and it seemed very significant to them, but to us they were just old ships being torn apart.

But tanks were things in war movies that were not torn apart -- except in action! Maybe that explains why I build armor primarily. Plus my father was an army guy, so his talk about the war was army talk.