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Found this mentioned on another list (G503)

http://houston.craigslist.org/clt/1094544501.html


Some wag on suggested painting "Bocks Car" on the truck towing this to it's new home :lol:

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Yeah, I'll take what's in the drums in the bunker... :shock:

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Or the Panzer Fausts sitting on top?

Wonder what else Mr Tin Hat has laying around hmm? :shock:

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:shock: 8) :D "The A-bomb? Oh never mind that, that's just crazy grandpas stuff..." :lol:

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Maybe the CAF should get it and carry it around in FiFi :D

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If it weighs 10,000 pounds I'd start to be worried. When operational it contained 5,300 pounds of high explosive - which is about half of its total weight!
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Hmmmmmm..........
Interesting. ;-)


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If it weighs 10,000 pounds I'd start to be worried. When operational it contained 5,300 pounds of high explosive - which is about half of its total weight!


Anything or anyone glowing in the dark down there? :wink: tick tick tick tick

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Yeah, I'll take what's in the drums in the bunker... :shock:


You do know Jimmy Hoffa's in the second one, right? :wink:

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Panzerfausts? Or tiki torches? hmmmmmmm

Dumb question,

Is that one of them newfangled marine landing tracks? It looks like the ones you see in the pictures of the Peleliu landings. If it is, I'd really like to have it, no place to put it though. If I only knew someone who had a place I could put it until I got some acres and a bitchin outbuilding.

Someone near Austin maybe, Austin rings a bell for some reason...... :D

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Isnt that an Amtrack??

And 10,000 lbs is way to heavy for just a shell for an Abomb!

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Well, if it is a practice bomb, it might just not be the casing. It probably weighs that much because they were "practicing" with it.
What good does it do to practice with a 1 ton bomb when you fly a mission with a 5 ton bomb?
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