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Title: Forget the Hummer! You NEED A Chieftain Main Battle Tank in your Garage
Post by: IndyShark on February 28, 2005, 07:09:01 pm: I need one of these! I wonder how much shipping and handling costs?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=4529798934&category=80765

Time left: 2 days 3 hours
10-day listing, Ends Mar-02-05 20:07:58 PST
Start time: Feb-20-05 20:07:58 PST
History: 0 bids
Item location: Saint Charles, Missouri
United States

Sells to: United States
Chieftain Main Battle Tank Military Vehicle
Vehicle Description

This is a military Chiefton Main Battle Tank Mark 5 and my guess it is around a 60's-80's tank.. This one currently does not run. It did run back in about 2000. We had it running and took it across the field. One of the sides of the track stopped working and the engine shut off. The tank did sit outside for about 2 years. This tank is in ok shape. There is not alot of rust on the outside. The engine does run on eather. We think that the lines are clogged up or the fuel pump it out. We really dont know what is wrong with it. It may be simple and it may get pretty involved. Before bidding make sure you have a way to get it. Buyer is responsible for shipping!!! If there are any questions before bidding email me or call me at 636-699-2357. Scott
Title: Re: Forget the Hummer! You NEED A Chieftain Main Battle Tank in your Garage
Post by: Sirgod on February 28, 2005, 07:26:30 pm: Checks Checking account. Damn. ;D ;D ;D

Stephen
Title: Re: Forget the Hummer! You NEED A Chieftain Main Battle Tank in your Garage
Post by: IndyShark on February 28, 2005, 08:11:41 pm: Stephen, I'll bet it gets lousy gas milage anyway.....

BUT DRIVING TO WORK WOULD BE FUN AGAIN!
Title: Re: Forget the Hummer! You NEED A Chieftain Main Battle Tank in your Garage
Post by: Sirgod on February 28, 2005, 08:14:06 pm: Quote from: IndyShark on February 28, 2005, 08:11:41 pm
Stephen, I'll bet it gets lousy gas milage anyway.....

BUT DRIVING TO WORK WOULD BE FUN AGAIN!

Muhahaha, Good point There Bro.

Stephen
Title: Re: Forget the Hummer! You NEED A Chieftain Main Battle Tank in your Garage
Post by: The Bar-Abbas Anomaly on February 28, 2005, 08:19:06 pm: Please send your payment to: Barabbas@onlineservice.com
Title: Re: Forget the Hummer! You NEED A Chieftain Main Battle Tank in your Garage
Post by: IndyShark on February 28, 2005, 08:23:56 pm: Quote from: Stephen on February 28, 2005, 08:14:06 pm
Quote from: IndyShark on February 28, 2005, 08:11:41 pm
Stephen, I'll bet it gets lousy gas milage anyway.....

BUT DRIVING TO WORK WOULD BE FUN AGAIN!

Muhahaha, Good point There Bro.

Stephen

Sure, you are going 45 mph, and the speed limit is 55, but no one is going to cut you off or even pass you because that's EXACTLY what you want them to do!

***Vroooom!***
****screech!****

****CRUNCH*****
(sound of little bits of glass falling on the ground and then footsteps)

Tank driver (in cool uniform and British Desert goggles) pauses, then looks down at the side of tank to see if there are bits of SUV stuck in the treads..................

A highly agitated young man in a suit runs up to your tank.

"Hey, you stupid bastard, ran over my BMW!!!" (panting)

"Did I?"

"Yes!"

"Sorry."

tank drives on......
Title: Re: Forget the Hummer! You NEED A Chieftain Main Battle Tank in your Garage
Post by: Sirgod on February 28, 2005, 08:24:06 pm: Quote from: Grand Piano Barabbas on February 28, 2005, 08:19:06 pm

Please send your payment to: Barabbas@onlineservice.com

LOL , Didn't you just win the Lottery though?

Stephen
Title: Re: Forget the Hummer! You NEED A Chieftain Main Battle Tank in your Garage
Post by: The Bar-Abbas Anomaly on February 28, 2005, 08:27:39 pm: That hasn't panned out quite as I expected.... The B/ wants me to send him $3000 for 'fees'!
Title: Re: Forget the Hummer! You NEED A Chieftain Main Battle Tank in your Garage
Post by: IAF Lyrkiller on March 01, 2005, 02:07:30 pm: The tank that i would want is a Leopard 3A1A ;D
Title: Re: Forget the Hummer! You NEED A Chieftain Main Battle Tank in your Garage
Post by: Just plain old Punisher on March 01, 2005, 08:02:36 pm: ::sigh:: when people let war machines rust away like that...just brings a tear to my eye.

The old girls deserve better you know.
Title: Re: Forget the Hummer! You NEED A Chieftain Main Battle Tank in your Garage
Post by: KOTH-KieranXC, Ret. on March 01, 2005, 08:44:39 pm: Meh, to heck with a tank, let me get a Harrier. I work on an Air Force base, I could figure out a way to keep it refueled. ;D
Title: Re: Forget the Hummer! You NEED A Chieftain Main Battle Tank in your Garage
Post by: Grand Master of Shadows NCC37385 on March 03, 2005, 10:22:42 am: I always enjoyed getting a good Hummer.

Oh, ya'll were talking about the vehicle...Nevermind. ;) ;D
Title: Re: Forget the Hummer! You NEED A Chieftain Main Battle Tank in your Garage
Post by: The Bar-Abbas Anomaly on March 03, 2005, 11:55:00 am: Wow. 23 bids.... He got a lot of action on that in the last 12 hours. (after the first bidder bailed out on him!)

{edit: Never mind.... 23 bids from just two guys bidding against each other.}
Title: Re: Forget the Hummer! You NEED A Chieftain Main Battle Tank in your Garage
Post by: Death_Merchant on March 04, 2005, 08:28:59 pm: Bah!

The tank doesn't run, and the Hummer is so commonplace. Heck, my neighbor has one...

You need this: http://www.detnews.com/2005/autosconsumer/0502/16/F01-91166.htm

and for only $225,000...

For a base price of $225,000 -- nearly twice the Hummer H1 wagon's base price of $117,508 -- consumers can get a basic version of the 10-foot-tall Bad Boy that can drive through five feet of water, climb a 60-degree grade, tow six tons and keep rolling even with a quarter-sized hole in the tire's sidewall.

The price goes up from there, depending on options. Drivers can get infrared cameras that peer through darkness. The flat-nosed cab can be bulletproof, and house a mini-safe behind three leather seats. The dash can include a satellite phone, a two-way radio and a global-positioning system -- all alongside DVD, MP3 and CD players and a flip-out LCD screen.

For $750,000, buyers can get the fully loaded "NBC" version that can, Ayres said, detect and block out fallout from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons by over-pressurizing the cab with filtered, clean air much like an aircraft.