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#1 User is offline   Holzauge 

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Posted February 28, 2009 - 01:32 PM

I found this in the photo gallery, and I wonder if it is a phony:

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Posted February 28, 2009 - 01:59 PM

It looks possible if not practical, it could be an ad-hoc conversion.
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Posted February 28, 2009 - 04:47 PM

It is real! See:


http://www.network54....III+conversion

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Posted February 28, 2009 - 06:21 PM

Holzauge said:

It is real! See:


http://www.network54....III+conversion


That's a dead link.
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Posted March 01, 2009 - 03:41 AM

Jim O said:

Holzauge said:

It is real! See:


http://www.network54....III+conversion


That's a dead link.


Sorry. See:

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Posted March 02, 2009 - 10:26 AM

this tank was made to excercise the crew from panzer IV,
its cheaper in this way than use a panzer IV

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Posted March 03, 2009 - 08:45 PM

The suggestion that this is a training tank makes perfect sense; I see no other practical reason for this conversion.
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Posted March 04, 2009 - 10:48 AM

derschnarchbaer said:

this tank was made to excercise the crew from panzer IV,
its cheaper in this way than use a panzer IV


Perhaps you mean Panzer III. It's a Panzer III turret on a Panzer I chassis.
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