German Panther-tank in museum with roaring engine

[sdkfz181]

I found this om You Tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQEdei945Yg

Is this real ? Where is this museum ?

[Adrian Stevenson]

http://www.technik-museum.de/uk/sinsheim/

Go to Military then the Panther link.

This coin operated Panther has featured on the forum recently.

Cheers, Ade.

[sdkfz181]

http://www.technik-museum.de/uk/sinsheim/

Go to Military then the Panther link.

This coin operated Panther has featured on the forum recently.

Cheers, Ade.

Do you know where the link is in this forum ? Thnx

[Adrian Stevenson]

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=255052

Please don't forget the search button

Cheers, Ade.

[sdkfz181]

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=255052

Please don't forget the search button

Cheers, Ade.

Ok thnx i found it a second ago

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...nsheim+panther

[the shadock]

Only 4 Panthers are in running condition, located at Kubinka Tank Museum (Russia), Saumur tank museum (France), WTS Koblenz and Panzermuseum Munster (Germany). The last one operates a post-WW2 engine.

There will be soon 2 more runners : Jacques Littlefield Panther, of which the engine was restored to running and was operated very recently (yes !! it runs !!) and Kevin Wheatcroft Panther.

Pierre-Olivier

[mgschutze]

But the panther of this movie is at the Sinsheim museum?
Five runners at the moment?

[sdkfz181]

Only 4 Panthers are in running condition, located at Kubinka Tank Museum (Russia), Saumur tank museum (France), WTS Koblenz and Panzermuseum Munster (Germany). The last one operates a post-WW2 engine.

There will be soon 2 more runners : Jacques Littlefield Panther, of which the engine was restored to running and was operated very recently (yes !! it runs !!) and Kevin Wheatcroft Panther.

Pierre-Olivier

That would be great !!! The video of the Kubinka Tank Museum driving the panther is really cool !!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4SlNpZQuPY

[Adrian Stevenson]

But the panther of this movie is at the Sinsheim museum?

Yes.

Cheers, Ade.

[sdkfz181]

But the panther of this movie is at the Sinsheim museum?
Five runners at the moment?

Yeah this movie is from Sinsheim. But i dont think the maybach is driving the machine.

Can sombody tell me how they made this work ? Is there more info ? Is the real engine still inside ?
Are did they strip the inside to make this panther move for a few bucks ? Gues it is electric powered.
And a sound emulation of the real thing ?

[the shadock]

That's the big question. I visited the museum last year and I was able to see the wheels and tracks moving, the turret turning right and left and the gun moving up and down. I hope that the museum team didn't do too much modifications and didn't break any part.. given the rarity of such a tank, it would be a shame and even worse to break or cut up parts to do a "funfair toy" with it..
So I confirm that this one at Sinsheim is NOT in running condition. The roads and tracks are not operated by the tank engine.

P-O

[the shadock]

By the way, they also did modify a German "Dampflok" locomotive in the same way : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRKYAHN1E_0

[mgschutze]

But locomotives are not that rare, I know that on a former military base in germany where more than hundred's of them. I was there last year, but know there all gone. I've heared that Koblenz have about 6 or more in depot know.

[SurvivingPanzer]

It is actually very interesting now that I think about it that despite the large amount of Panthers left, and I would say they were the most numerous on par with the StuG 3 and Panzer 4, until the Bulgarian Panzer Pillboxes were excavated, that so few of them run.

[r_hufschmied]

It is actually very interesting now that I think about it that despite the large amount of Panthers left, and I would say they were the most numerous on par with the StuG 3 and Panzer 4, until the Bulgarian Panzer Pillboxes were excavated, that so few of them run.

Approximative numbers before the Bulgarian salvage:

StuG III approx. 70 (not counting variants)
Pz IV: approx. 34 (not counting variants)
Panthers, including Jagdpanther, Bergepanther and wrecks: approx. 43

The Bulgarian salvage has pushed up the figures for the StuG and Pz IV quite considerably, how much remains to get verified. A modest estimate would put the StuG in the 80 range and the Pz IV in the 55-60 range.

I would say that there are very few runners regardless of make, the Panther survivors rate high in runners, followed by the StuG and then the Pz IV third.