I saw this tank in South London one day while just wandering around. It's a Russian T34 mark 85 made in 1944. (thanks to Katagh for the info - see comment below).
12 Ноябрь 2009, 04:52 Robert Brook Russian, I think...www.cubittartists.org.uk/mirpink.html
13 Ноябрь 2009, 02:21 davesag I am pretty sure it's a russian t-34. But i could be wrong. Great link to the tank being painted by the way. That's awesome.
13 Ноябрь 2009, 18:45 Skando How cool! I remember seeing that tank with you.
14 Ноябрь 2009, 04:25 davesag hey sarah, so you did. i can't remember where we were off to tho.. those were the dark ages.
14 Ноябрь 2009, 23:52 khairoun I lived near to this for a while when I was in Clapham - it used to patrol up and down acre lane in brixton from time to time, didn't seem to be connected to the squat in Coldharbour lane, just somebody's tank i guess.
15 Ноябрь 2009, 07:19 alexis! Hmm. I think there may be more than one pink tank in London coz the one in Brixton was around b4 2002...
16 Ноябрь 2009, 01:56 phlezk hah! excellent!
17 Ноябрь 2009, 00:55 jaqian Great photo. Was this part of some art project?
17 Ноябрь 2009, 15:52 davesag see the link in Robert Brook's comment at the top. It does indeed seem to have been an art work.
17 Ноябрь 2009, 16:34 davesag woohoo this is my most viewed pic at 400 views.
18 Ноябрь 2009, 13:20 dooda Let me be the first to welcome you back Davesag. We almost started a thread only about you. Barrybar's been lonely, taking the heat on himself only, and it just hasn't been the same without you, please never go away again.Oh yeah, this tank sucks. You've got the blurry wire thing on the left, the pink is hardly pronounced, and the framing is slippity sloppity (the bottom is fighting for space, the top has way too much). voted as "deleteme" (from Delete me! group)
18 Ноябрь 2009, 20:32 Rentahamster oh my gosh, a pink tank, I do not even wanna go there, dooda is already telling ya-voted as "deleteme2"
19 Ноябрь 2009, 02:05 davesag Didn't you post this tank already, like, 5 weeks ago?
19 Ноябрь 2009, 11:31 amortize
@dooda - thanks for the heartfelt welcome
back! in true dm style. yes i've been busy.
waddayamean *almost* started a thread about
me - if you'd really missed me you would have
carried on.
@rentahamster- yeah it was here in the 1st
week of this group, and before the rules
settled - i got caught out posting more than
one image (the rules at the time saidi could
post 3, but then they changed) so i pulled
this and removed the dm tags and comments -
and have only now decided to repost it.
19 Ноябрь 2009, 21:39 sgoralnick It's an interesting object, but I don't think this picture quite works. If the tank was more central it might work better.Voted deleteme3 (from Delete Me! group)
20 Ноябрь 2009, 10:12 Rentahamster an interesting subject poorly photographeddeleteme!
21 Ноябрь 2009, 06:41 _rebekka Ah, so I wasn't just hallucinating from all that cocaine I just snorted off my toilet seat.As I recall, the last time I saw this picture I voted "saveme". I don't know why I did that, really...be it my heavy drinking, my debilitating lack of good taste, or my horrible case of eye herpes...not too sure.If I wanted to destroy mankind, I'm sure my tool of choice would be a pink tank. I can see the irony in that. Furthermore, if I were to sodomize my arch-enemies, my tool of choice, again, would be a pink tank. Of course, "a pink tank" would be my answer for a lot of questions, now that I think about it - like, "What do you want for Christmas", "Why do you hate yourself", "Where did you lose your virginity", "What food makes you fart", "How many fucking kids do you have", etc.But that's neither here nor there. The point is, now that my eyes are sans herpes, I can see what an utterly reprehensible photo this is. Anyone who can't see that this work of art is clearly a glorified tribute to powerful and unlubricated ass-fucking is most likely blind and incontinent.Nice to see you again, Dave :)-voted as "deleteme6" (from Delete me! group)
21 Ноябрь 2009, 12:38 Lynn Morag
this is a bad photo of an unusual object
covered with graffiti. I'm less than amazed.
"deleteme"
21 Ноябрь 2009, 22:34 MindSpigot Fun subject but not a great photo so deleteme8
22 Ноябрь 2009, 03:52 Tsjeu It put a smile on my face, tank aren't supposed to be pink or covered in graffiti but it's a fairly average photo of good subject - deleteme9.
22 Ноябрь 2009, 08:51 Glyn1
Was this part of a gay-parade?
Nice tank, bad picture.voted "deleteme"
23 Ноябрь 2009, 07:20 GRANIX ben Here's the latest paint job of it, with an explanation from some of the locals:www.flickr.com/photos/57351475@N00/34219878/
23 Ноябрь 2009, 14:47 StefZ what a wonderful tank!
24 Ноябрь 2009, 02:28 Katagh latest paint job - it appears to have taken up smoking...
24 Ноябрь 2009, 14:47 JLovely To be clear on the make of the tank, it's a Russian T34 mark 85 made in 1944. In 1943, just after the big tank battle of Kursk, it was obvious that the Russian medium weight tanks had to increase firepower to be able to come up to the same level as the newest German tanks. The solution was a compromise that turned out very well. A new bigger cast turret with an 850 mm gun was put on an ordinary (but heavier armoured) hull of a T 34 model 1943, and the brand new model was born. Though it didn't look so well balanced with its big turret it was the fast solution to an acute problem. Production seased in late 1944 after a year's production of over 7.200 vehicles.And now you can get them in pink to.
24 Ноябрь 2009, 22:04 SerialCoder hahaha...that's too funny... Please consider adding your photos to the 10 Million Photos group
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