LRO: Tiger in your tank

From: A. P. \ (rover@pinn.net)
Date: Wed Apr 04 2001 - 23:33:44 EDT

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    Paul Quin <Paul_Quin@pml.com> wrote:

    >Makes me think of the scene from "Kelly's Heroes" where Donald Sutherland's
    >driver trades his Sherman for his dream Tiger. He was very shocked to find
    >out just how bad the conditions were inside the Tiger. At least that movie
    >(Starring Clint Eastwood among many others - great movie...) made an attempt
    >having the tanks look like Tigers. I think that they were actually plywood
    >mock-ups on some other tank chassis as the turrets were just to big compared
    >the rest of the hull...

    "Always with the negative waves, man...."

    I was wondering when this would come up...at least *one* of the Tigers in
    Kelly's Heros (one of my favorites, BTW...) had to be a for-real, working
    Tiger. I doubt that Hollywood would have gone to the trouble of
    replicating the hard-facing welds used to build-up the hull and turret....\

    Cheers

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