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The rounds didn't really weigh all that much (no more than 40lbs each for 90mm, I would think) and, during gunnery, you don't fully load the vehicle with ammunition. Just enough to complete the engagements.

AFAIK, you've got to pull the pack to get to the starter. Once had a tank in my platoon short out the starter because the drain plugs were stopped up with mud and the engine compartment filled up with water on the wash rack. They had to pull the pack to replace it.

All the ranges I was on had a specific ammo "dock" (kind of like a heavy-duty loading dock) located behind and off to the side of the main firing line. When a tank crew completed firing their engagements, each tank went to upload ammo and offload empty shell casings there. The rounds were...

To more quickly load the rounds onto the tanks. Takes less time than uncrating the "tootsie roll" tubes and then taking the rounds out of those. I served on M60A3s and M1IPs and have seen similar setups on the ranges that I used (though always on ammo docks, not on the ground).

An M60A3 turret trainer? That would make sense, since you could set up the camera and lights outside the turret and shoot through the holes cut in the armor.

When I first saw the movie in the mid-80s, I didn't notice anything "wrong" with the interior scenes. I was a teenager and it looked like the inside of a tank. Several years later (after I'd served on M60A3s) I saw the movie again and realized, "They shot the interior scenes (or at least most...

Are you asking about an A3 or the A1? The Marines never used the former, so a Marine paint job wouldn't be accurate.

Yeah, that's a range setup. I saw this some time back and, IIRC, it's a British missile test.

Late M60A1 RISE/Passives did.

Google says that the elbow is used on 106mm recoiless rifle.

That's a gunner's telescopic sight for the 37mm gun used on US light tanks in WWII, not a boresight device. It can be seen here mounted on the left side of the gun mount. I have no idea of what it might be worth, but they do turn up on eBay from time to time.

Definitely an M60A1 or M60A3. My guess is the latter because the gun tube looks like it has a thermal shroud and it looks like there might be a wind sensor mast on the rear turret roof.

Some time back (middle of last year?) someone on evilBay was selling an M41/42 engine. I don't recall if it sold or not...:???:

Is that the vehicle in question? If so, it's an M42 Duster antiaircraft vehicle. Looks to be in pretty decent shape.

I saw a thread about this guy on a couple of other sites last year and the local paper did a story on him Friday.

I wonder if it was going to Brent Mullins in College Station. Several years ago I attended one of his open houses and, while wandering the grounds, nearly stumbled over a .30 cupola from an M3 Lee. Maybe he's finally getting the rest of the tank? :-P

I'm a relative newby, but I really like this skin better than the old one(s). Much better for the "theme" of the site. Nice job!

I'm the guy who took those photos in August 2005. At the time, the owner told me that the tank had been sold to a museum in Colorado, but they hadn't picked it up yet. I was there again in August 2007 and the tank was gone. Hopefully to the museum. In 2005, when I first spotted the tank...