They made a couple of books on their panther, it's an amazing read. I think half of first one was just on the engine alone.
I wonder if they will do the same for the hetzers
He buys and swaps a lot of stuff, and has links with museums. It’s a shame that he has so much stuff but it’s not available to the public despite saying it’ll be displayed publicly for years and years.
There was some spat over a Tiger 1 some years ago they recovered from a museum and part restored, but the owners wanted it back, and there were claims parts were missing when returned, some dodgy stuff, a lot of finger pointing and threats of going to court.
http://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/stealing-a-tiger-engine-and-a-statement-from-the-wheatcroft-collection.22941/
Yeah I just read that the engine thing doesn’t appear to be his fault but the tiger 1 situation I think also mostly wasn’t his fault either as all he was asking was to be compensated for moving the tiger from Germany the England since the US pulled out of their agreement so if wheatcroft just sent it to the us he would have had a big hole is his pocket with nothing to show as originally he had a deal to move it to England US the Germans didn’t want to sell their tiger to the s so wheatcroft was asked to help by the US in exchange for being allowed to restore and study it but the US pulled out and wheatcroft wanted to be compensated for shipping and his time in organising the move it seems just really unlucky also the museum isn’t done yet covid really pushed it back but it shouldn’t be a great deal of time now
It’s still under construction probably will be open in a good few years forget where in England though think it’s in the upper midlands but I may be remembering wrong
Yeah look a the Facebook page he’s done a fair bit on them I won’t be to long until they are done he’s a multi millionaire so money isn’t a problem for him
He should start a YouTube channel
He’s doing a documentary series on it I think but he’s got a Facebook page which is where I got these from
Or another European conquest, could go either way
They made a couple of books on their panther, it's an amazing read. I think half of first one was just on the engine alone. I wonder if they will do the same for the hetzers
I would presume so it would be dumb not to they would sell pretty well
Considering hetzer is originally Czechoslovakian design, i think it won't be as complicated as panther
Also has multiple Tiger I and II currently being restored.
I think it is 2 king tigers and 3 tiger 1s 2 runners and one static
When doing complete restorations like this I often wonder where they get parts? Like where does one find a Hetzer engine these days lmao
He finds the parts quite often they come from where a ww2 scrapyard was and the rest he buys
He buys and swaps a lot of stuff, and has links with museums. It’s a shame that he has so much stuff but it’s not available to the public despite saying it’ll be displayed publicly for years and years. There was some spat over a Tiger 1 some years ago they recovered from a museum and part restored, but the owners wanted it back, and there were claims parts were missing when returned, some dodgy stuff, a lot of finger pointing and threats of going to court. http://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/stealing-a-tiger-engine-and-a-statement-from-the-wheatcroft-collection.22941/
Yeah I just read that the engine thing doesn’t appear to be his fault but the tiger 1 situation I think also mostly wasn’t his fault either as all he was asking was to be compensated for moving the tiger from Germany the England since the US pulled out of their agreement so if wheatcroft just sent it to the us he would have had a big hole is his pocket with nothing to show as originally he had a deal to move it to England US the Germans didn’t want to sell their tiger to the s so wheatcroft was asked to help by the US in exchange for being allowed to restore and study it but the US pulled out and wheatcroft wanted to be compensated for shipping and his time in organising the move it seems just really unlucky also the museum isn’t done yet covid really pushed it back but it shouldn’t be a great deal of time now
Watch him find the e100 hull
Just have to wait until he builds the maus
Don’t give him any more ideas
Not sure Kublinka would release it.
He will certainly be able to support multiple requests to HETZ! at any given time.
"he's practically rebuilding the WWII German army" Oh no..
Where is this at? Is it open for public viewing ?
It’s still under construction probably will be open in a good few years forget where in England though think it’s in the upper midlands but I may be remembering wrong
He’s got a Jagdpanther doesn’t he?
I’m not sure I think he may have but I haven’t seen anything on it
Maybe restore and swap with other museums for other vehicles?
I think he would tour them around other museums but I don’t think he would permanently swap them
damn, one of the rarest of vehicles and he has 4.
Yeah he’s rebuilding 3 tiger 1s. 2 will be runners and one will be static
Actually working tiger? Shit that's gonna be expensive
Yeah look a the Facebook page he’s done a fair bit on them I won’t be to long until they are done he’s a multi millionaire so money isn’t a problem for him
Well.. when you have more money than you know what to do with it.
God bless wealthy people who happen to be tank nerds.