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Walter_Sobchak
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Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 5:03 am Post subject: Weird tank in Armada Michigan
I took some pictures of an M48 hull with an XM66 prototype turret in Armada MI today. If anyone wants to see them, they are here.

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Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 9:47 am Post subject: Re: Weird tank in Armada Michigan
The air cleaner boxes would suggest a dieselized tank (A3 & A5), but only three instead of five return rollers? Interesting combo - M48A1E1? _________________ 1/72 and 1/76 scale fanatic.

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Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 2:07 pm Post subject: Re: Weird tank in Armada Michigan
- Costas_TT The air cleaner boxes would suggest a dieselized tank (A3 & A5), but only three instead of five return rollers? Interesting combo - M48A1E1? That would make sense to me. I looked the M48A1E1 in Hunnicutt's book "Patton." This hull seems to fit the description.

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Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 12:47 am Post subject: Re: Weird tank in Armada Michigan
Walter, Nice photos! I had seen photos of this tank years ago, Your shots are much better. Rick

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Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 2:42 am Post subject: Re: Weird tank in Armada Michigan
- Rick_Eshleman Walter, Nice photos! I had seen photos of this tank years ago, Your shots are much better. Rick Glad you liked them Rick. It was a bit of a drive to get to this tank so I am glad someone found the pictures interesting. This is certainly one of the stranger tanks on display in Michigan that I have found so far.

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Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 4:00 am Post subject: Re: Weird tank in Armada Michigan
Its one of the late T95 prototype spin off variants...

Walter_Sobchak
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Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 5:07 am Post subject: Re: Weird tank in Armada Michigan
Good catch. I found some pictures of the T95E8 in Hunnicutt's "Abrams" book.

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Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 6:02 pm Post subject: Re: Weird tank in Armada Michigan
Next time you are over on this side of the state, you should stop by our museum! We don't have a tank (yet) but we do have some tank related stuff!

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