Pictures from Bastogne Garage

Hello everyone,

player Crazytony0 was recently in the Bastogne armor museum – we already had pictures of that on FTR I think. What is however very interesting is that he got into the “garage”, a place where tanks are being repaired and restored and is not normally accessible for public. Enjoy!

The vehicles currently in (hopefuly) running condition there are the Cromwell, the M16, Stuart, both Shermans, the Patton, the IS3 (altough not in great shape), and the green Renault UE.

For me, the most interesting part is the disassembled StuG…

27 thoughts on “Pictures from Bastogne Garage”

Awesome pics! Is the a wish list of stuff you want SS, a particular museum or vehicle?

Silentstalker on August 23, 2014 at 9:11 am said:

The stuff I really want you can’t get me, mate :( But thanks!
- Ojelle on August 23, 2014 at 9:32 am said:
  
  I think you might get suprized where some of us can get.
  - Silentstalker on August 23, 2014 at 10:31 am said:
    
    I think you might get surprised what I want :)
    - edfrancis001 on August 23, 2014 at 10:40 am said:
      
      Ooh I dunno we got some pretty rare stuff in the UK, some if it is underwater admittedly! But hey.
      
      So what is the dream afv for your collection
    - crazytony0 on August 23, 2014 at 11:40 am said:
      
      are we sure that what you want, could be found in a tankmuseum? ;-)
    - IN33DAMM0 on August 23, 2014 at 8:45 pm said:
      
      Make a reward system for getting you the “surprising items you want LEGALLY”. =P
    - havoc313 on August 24, 2014 at 2:32 am said:
      
      what is then Ill make it my lives mission to find it?
- Ludo787 on August 23, 2014 at 5:02 pm said:
  
  Maybe a US 203mm howitzer on trailer? Or the interior of a running Panzer 68?
  
  I know a bunker-museum near my town where they have damn rare stuff, a P-47 wreck with the 50.cal guns still visible with ammo, a Me-262 wreck, 8,8cm Flak, 7,5cm Pak, Czech 57mm AT-gun, MiG-21, Mirage III, AMX13 75, MT-LB, M3 Greyhound Quad. 50.cal! :D I think that there’s a Chieftain aswell, but dunno where this tiny museum got it from. And almost everything in running condition!

very nice pictures. thanks SS

Was that a sled that i just saw. Tier 1 premium perhaps :)

When I visited this museum (with WG French community), a member from this museum said me every tanks are in running condition. At least, you can add to the list: Matilda, Hetzer, Chaffee, T34/85 (a big trace of oil was under him!) all the wheeled vehicles and… The stug III

Here is a small video of the stug from the bastogne Barracks
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=171941246298474

crazytony0 on August 23, 2014 at 11:38 am said:

well, decided to tell only those wich i saw driving last year, as otherwise nearly every tank can be described driveable. That pacific tractor for instance wich is now in the garage, last year it didnt had one good tyre, so it wasnt realy driveable either.
Nice video btw

The only thing I wanna know is… How/where the hell did they get an IS-3?

Gappa on August 23, 2014 at 12:05 pm said:

My guess would be something like USSR -> Egypt -> Israel -> Belgium :)
PinkyDK on August 23, 2014 at 12:12 pm said:

I am pretty sure getting an is-3 was a simple matter of buying it from a poor country after the break with the USSR?
- Gappa on August 23, 2014 at 12:25 pm said:
  
  Well, that could work too, but IS-3 wasn’t exported widely – according to Wiki the list of non-USSR IS-3 operators/owners isn’t really long :)
  
  Egyptian Army: Operated IS-3M from 1956-1967, some in use in 1973.
  IDF: IS-3M, captured from Egypt in 1967.
  Polish Land Forces: Two IS-3s were bought in 1946 for trials only.
  Romanian Land Forces: Approximately 5 IS-3s.
  South Ossetian Army: Operated some IS-2s, IS-3s and T-10s until 1995.
  
  But yeah, sometimes things find their own way to happen as they like :)
crazytony0 on August 23, 2014 at 1:33 pm said:

from what i have heared, it came as a kind of gift from russia. It was stored for decades in a russian/USSR reserve depot. It arrived in the port of antwerp by boat some 15 years ago, aparantly it was in great shape back then.
- Gappa on August 23, 2014 at 2:19 pm said:
  
  Nice :)

I KNOW THAT PATTON!!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=723612487705252&set=a.115181051881735.12489.100001695230819&type=1&theater

it looked quite familiar, but its the same as the one at Wings and Wheels this year.
Too bad there were only 5 tanks on the show… but the patton was a nice surprise

The Firefly you can see next to the patton was on the show too