German Tank Pulled From Russian Mud

[swiss]

Originally Posted by pupo162

"This tank was taken out of the bog in the area of Letwenia and was sold to a collactor for 1 million Dollars."

from a oyutube comment, not a reliable source. but no source was given to the scrap metla theory either.

WW2 Nazi tanks are rare
Nazi tanks have this odd sexyness
This kind of odd sexyness attracts people
Museums depend on the sale of tickets

Must I go on?

1M seems a tad too high, but anyway, you'll get much more for the whole tank compared to its worth as scrap metal (it's not a contemporary fighter plane - 20yrs. ago the Swiss Mirage III went for roughly $30k each....)

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by swiss

WW2 Nazi tanks are rare
Nazi tanks have this odd sexyness
This kind of odd sexyness attracts people
Museums depend on the sale of tickets

Must I go on?

1M seems a tad too high, but anyway, you'll get much more for the whole tank compared to its worth as scrap metal (it's not a contemporary fighter plane - 20yrs. ago the Swiss Mirage III went for roughly $30k each....)

Well its a Stug not a tank so not near as valuable as say a Tiger. The only reference I found for a Stug actually for sale was $100,000 asking price in 2004 for this one:

http://www.feldgrau.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=3292

Of course its entirely possible whoever recovered it is only allowed to sell it as scrap and if its to be restored it will simply be "acquired" under some sort of salvage laws and the original salvation team will lose any money invested to date.

This issue comes up a lot with Pacific Theater warplanes and AFVs. Basically the local villagers can either cutup and sell a wreck for scrap and make enough to support the whole village for years or tell people about it, in which case some multi-millionaire collector or maybe even a national government salvage team turns up, collects the wreck and they do not get a cent.