Ontario Museum buys fake German vehicles

[Douglas Greville]

When I read through the list of complaints what sticks out to me is that most of the things listed would be obvious to most people. Granted you need to know your specifics for things like armour angles. But the anorak detail of whether or not a real Marder has 2 return rollers or one is pretty obvious if you pull up any WW2 photo of a Marder.

A quick google search would reveal sites such as "Surviving Panzers" etc.

We all know that WW2 was now 73 years ago and there weren't many German vehicles survived it. Heck, just look at the Littlefield Panther (which the museum in question would know about) - Jacques had to get a complete new fabrication for the turret. Would they get sniffy that that vehicle is not authentic enough?

There seems to be a lot more to this story than in that article.

To me it has all the makings of a lawyer fest.

If you buy at auction you need to read the fine print and if that fine print includes an escape clause that essentially says the seller guarantees nothing, then buyer beware applies. I cannot count the number of times I have seen
sale lots misdescribed at auction, actually in my experience it is the norm not the exception.

But as to the difference between and G13 and a real Hetzer, 10 minutes spent on the internet would soon educate even the most wet behind the ears armour enthusiast. Then he too can own a vehicle that has to be driven with a view of the world no better than looking out through a letter box slot.

[Jesse Browning]

All at once I had several very interested parties in the Sexton. Granted, its not a $300k sale. Two European buyers were pressing me to give them my bank wiring info, sight unseen. The US Buyer will come to see it next week. Maybe because of my past experiences, I found it UNTHINKABLE that a purchase of that size would be made without inspecting the vehicle. That’s the reason I gave the local buyer first chance. I don’t much care if the vehicle stays in the US. My wife wants me to get a grocery service to deliver for me since I can no longer shop, but I wont even buy groceries without seeing them first.

[Lynn Eades]

Just maybe Jessie, your reputation precedes you, because of which, people are happy to buy sight un-seen.

[Douglas Greville]

Due diligence took me 10 minutes and most of that was waiting for the PDFs to download:

<http://the.shadock.free.fr/Surviving_Modified_Foreign_Vehicles.pdf>

Marder III vismod - bottom most listing.

<http://the.shadock.free.fr/Surviving_sWS_Maultier.pdf>

4th from the bottom.

I will point out that I do not know when those documents were created
or the details updated.