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JeffStringer · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 637

oldtop:

That's a great pic! Is that you sitting on top of what looks like a Stug III Ausf G? Where is that place located?

If ever in Indiana, the Fred Ropkey Armor Museum has a fully restored M56. Turns out that it was the only pic I took that didn't turn out very well but is worth taking a look at sitting behind a desert tan M109!

Have a great Easter everyone!

MarkHolloway · Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 1:54 pm Post subject: Re: M56 Scorpions -

Jeff, Seems like a few years ago I visited the Ropeky Museum web site. Do they still have it? I'm close enough now that I might get up there. Seems like they had a Sheridan? More info, please Razz

Dontos · Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 2:11 pm Post subject: Re: M56 Scorpions -

...hey sounds like a day trip to Indy. I wanna go....

Don

Hellfish6 · Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 2:23 pm Post subject: Re: M56 Scorpions -

Is that Armor museum anywhere near Camp Atterberry? I've got to go there in June.

Doug_Kibbey · Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 2:35 pm Post subject: Re: M56 Scorpions -

- JeffStringer

oldtop:

That's a great pic! Is that you sitting on top of what looks like a Stug III Ausf G? Where is that place located?

The Mil.Vehicle Tech Foundation. at Portola Valley, California. (The Littlefield collection near Palo Alto).

JeffStringer · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 637

Here's the new site

www.ropkeyarmormuseum.com/

looks like it's just been updated.

Camp Atterbury is in Edinburg, just south of where I live and the Ropkey Museum is in Crawfordsville which is about 50 minutes (75 miles) North West of me.

Camp Atterbury has an Ontos, a few M4A1E8's, a couple of M47 and a M60 Patton's outside as well as a M42 and a few softskins.

Let me know if anyone plans a trip there! I'd like to go again!

JeffStringer · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 637

Oh yeah, no M551 there at Ropkey's, but it's mostly American armor with a Type 97 as the only exception. They are restoring an FT-17 right now.

He has does have 3 Shermans, and unrestored M42 Duster, a Pershing from which Tamiya did the actual recording from for their 1/16 R/C tank, and a few Stuarts as well as many other's there too.

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