Hello, I would like to congratulate you for your work and especially for your determination to keep the tanks from the Second World War. The panther is magnificent.
I'd love to restore a German big cat.. preferably a Tiger II or a Panther (Including their different models also including the "Jagd" variants) . It's one of the main reasons I want to become a mechanic.
From what I understand , the Panther was rushed into production , before it was properly tested .One of the main problems was the Maybach HL230 engine , so to get this particular Big cat mobile after all these years is a real accomplishment
Panzerkampfwagen V - Panther Ausführung D : 842 Stück Ausführung A : 2200 Stück Ausführung G : 2953 Stück . Ausführung F : Prototype Befehlspanzer : 329 Stück Beobachtungs V Panther : 1 Beleuchtungspanzer : 63 Stück Bergepanther : 400 Stück in verschiedenen Versionen und anderer Hersteller Das sind die echten zahlen der Panther / Panzerkampfwagen V
The german alphabet in those day, first type starts with D followed by A..G..F 😉😁\ But it still remains a mystery to this day exactly why they started the type numbering with D and not with A. Or maybe the guy who made the technical blueprints looked at the A sideways and thought, that's a ..D for sure. 😉😁
@@johnsamu You're close. Actually Jentz clarified this topic in his book "Germany's Panther Tank: The Quest for Supremacy." To put it simply as possible, in the early 1940s the Germans created a revised nomenclature protocol for new armored vehicles in development. This consisted of labeling the ausführung designation after the first letter of the manufacturer's name. Hence, tanks in development like the Tiger received ausführung letters such as Tiger H for Henschel and Tiger P for Porsche. Likewise, the Panther's prototypes had ausführungs of Panther M for MAN and Panther D for Daimler Benz. Hitler initially favored the Daimler Benz Panther prototype so plans were originally slated for its manufacturer. However, due to various reasons, the MAN prototype was chosen for actual production instead. With this settled, MAN's plans were sent for production but in a mix-up somewhere along the line the blueprints were mislabeled Daimler Benz not MAN. Therefore, the first Panther series was designated Ausführung D for Daimler Benz even though it was MAN's design. Later ausführungs for the Panther are more mysterious. It appears that somewhere around 1943 German officials went back to labeling ausführung to the logical pre-war designation A,B,C,D, etc. giving the second Panther the ausführung letter "A." Why they didn't give it the ausführung B for the second in the series, like they did with the Tiger (ie Tiger-II Ausf.B) is unknown. Perhaps it was because it was a series modification and not a completely different design. Finally, it's still completely unknown why the subsequent Panthers were designated ausführung G and F. To my knowledge no one has ever discovered why those letter designations were given to the third and forth Panther variants. German AFV designation protocol is quite fascinating. Before the war they had a completely logical straight forward manner in which to label tanks and other vehicles (A,B,C,D, etc.). However, for some unknown reason, this whole system broke down after about 1941. It seems new AFV just received ad hoc titles and ausführung letters. It's quite amazing, some vehicles, such as the 7.62cm Pak(r) Marder-III, have something in the range of a dozen official names!
@@calessel3139 It might (just a guess) have something to do with the success of the "speeding up German industry production programs" of Albert Speer? Speeding up in industry is often realized by cutting the red tape, less control and oversight. Mistakes are more easy to be made and will not be corrected unless it's a matter of life and death. If someone made a mistake in the number of the gun in the drawing e g. 67 mm instead of 76 mm that will be noticed and corrected. But a letter D, A or G, nobody really cares about that and nobody will be killed because of that. Especially people already got used to changing (not logically) names on essentially the same tanks, e g. a Tiger 1 (prototype) became a Ferdinand and finally ended up being an Elephant. Another example of the breakdown in industrial/administrative oversight are the "production record pictures" of military trucks. You might get a certain record number picture of a certain month in a certain factory and a LOWER record number LATER in that year in another factory. It's physically impossible to UNproduce something, so the number should be higher or at least be the same.
@@johnsamu There most certainly must have been some nomenclature problems as a result of the increased production rate experienced by German industry and it's corresponding government agencies as production sped up during the war. Furthermore, the German's rather desperate need to modernize obsolete chassis by conversion into various S.P. guns seems to have resulted in various agencies and manufacturers bypassing the proper designation process resulting in labeling chaos. Thrown into the mix were new designs, like the Tiger series and Panther, which never received proper logical ausführung lettering. So as a result, the Germans ended up with an illogical hodgepodge of names and variant designations for their war time armored vehicles. However, it is interesting that this affliction didn't much effect the naming process of AFV designs created in the pre-war period, such as the Pzkpfw-III, IV or StuGs despite the fact that they continued production throughout most or all of the war.
@@jimmylight4866 It will also take a fortune to keep it on the road. There is no Tanks-R-US for cheap spare parts. Spare parts are hard to find and expensive.
2:13 - shows an Israeli (IDF ) Sherman tank !! .The Sherman was widely used ( and modified ) by the IDF , and many ( and I mean many) variations can be found at Yad La-Shiryon (officially: The Armoured Corps Memorial Site and Museum at Latrun; Central Israel , sadly there are no Panther tanks , working or not on display ( yet )
Niestety raczej już nie do odzyskania. Cebula go sprzedała wbrew opinii konserwatora zabytków. Było prowadzone śledztwo, ale przedawniło się, więc umożone. Teraz możemy jechać do USA żeby zobaczyć Pantere z Polski.
me too... i asumed they did that to give extra camo for shiny days, so the smooth surface doesn't give the tanks position away. well, maybe a nice sideeffect i guess
It s Ben a while since this was restored my question is what kind of motor oil do you use in the maybach , I don’t believe it would be synthetic,as but more of a zinc additive oil, just curious,
I was looking for what happened to the Panther taken from Poland and actually stolen from my country. After 1945, the Russians stole from my area, they rolled up almost 30 km of rails to Orneta. But then there was the communist system, but now it was like a democracy and the whole tank may disappear. This is our national tragedy
Stolen? More like saved amd at least this pantner got the restoration it desrved and not sit in poland as a museum wreck or scrap metal and thats what the polish army was doing when they tried too pull it out of the river the first time use it for scrap metal
@@Panzerfaust-cj8qt I understand, but after 1989 many tanks in Poland have been restored and they are working and moving. So before 1989, the Polish army cut many tanks for scrap, they also destroyed the barracks in Westterplate then we had no free country
@@Panzerfaust-cj8qt Not saved, but stolen. We have a lot of German tanks that have been superbly restored so if you don't know something, don't write nonsense. I will tell you more The Polish conservator of monuments has included this tank on the list of lost historical monuments, so now it is a stolen tank and, in the light of the law, it should be returned to Poland and America, as a lawful country, should comply with it.
@@pangowka2544 I still feel like it would sit too rust or not get the level of restoration that it’s in at least it’s been saved and is there for people too enjoy and ima leave it at that
@@Panzerfaust-cj8qt But whatever you look at it, it's a crime and you Americans are trying to establish democracy and the rule of law everywhere, so stick to it. And as for the restoration of the tank, we have a lot of tanks refurbished in perfect condition, e.g. Panzer 3 from the museum in Poznań.
One has to weigh which outcome is best for posterity: sitting submerged, deteriorating and pretty much forgotten in a river or restored and functioning again on a different continent. I vote for the latter however that does not belittle the fact that an export crime was committed. The Getty Museum among others returned looted ancient artifacts to Italy.
The example in the Australian Armour and Artillery Meuseum in Cairns Queensland is fully reconditioned and as near to mint as you'll see.
Hello, I would like to congratulate you for your work and especially for your determination to keep the tanks from the Second World War. The panther is magnificent.
I'd love to restore a German big cat.. preferably a Tiger II or a Panther (Including their different models also including the "Jagd" variants) . It's one of the main reasons I want to become a mechanic.
From what I understand , the Panther was rushed into production , before it was properly tested .One of the main problems was the Maybach HL230 engine , so to get this particular Big cat mobile after all these years is a real accomplishment
That is Awesome that it was done for future History. Beautiful Tank !!!!!! Thanks Guy Hubbard
it´s German my Friend
The Best of the Best
Panzerkampfwagen V - Panther
Ausführung D : 842 Stück
Ausführung A : 2200 Stück
Ausführung G : 2953 Stück .
Ausführung F : Prototype
Befehlspanzer : 329 Stück
Beobachtungs V Panther : 1
Beleuchtungspanzer : 63 Stück
Bergepanther : 400 Stück in verschiedenen Versionen und anderer Hersteller
Das sind die echten zahlen der Panther / Panzerkampfwagen V
The german alphabet in those day, first type starts with D followed by A..G..F 😉😁\
But it still remains a mystery to this day exactly why they started the type numbering with D and not with A.
Or maybe the guy who made the technical blueprints looked at the A sideways and thought, that's a ..D for sure. 😉😁
@@johnsamu You're close. Actually Jentz clarified this topic in his book "Germany's Panther Tank: The Quest for Supremacy." To put it simply as possible, in the early 1940s the Germans created a revised nomenclature protocol for new armored vehicles in development. This consisted of labeling the ausführung designation after the first letter of the manufacturer's name. Hence, tanks in development like the Tiger received ausführung letters such as Tiger H for Henschel and Tiger P for Porsche.
Likewise, the Panther's prototypes had ausführungs of Panther M for MAN and Panther D for Daimler Benz. Hitler initially favored the Daimler Benz Panther prototype so plans were originally slated for its manufacturer. However, due to various reasons, the MAN prototype was chosen for actual production instead. With this settled, MAN's plans were sent for production but in a mix-up somewhere along the line the blueprints were mislabeled Daimler Benz not MAN. Therefore, the first Panther series was designated Ausführung D for Daimler Benz even though it was MAN's design.
Later ausführungs for the Panther are more mysterious. It appears that somewhere around 1943 German officials went back to labeling ausführung to the logical pre-war designation A,B,C,D, etc. giving the second Panther the ausführung letter "A." Why they didn't give it the ausführung B for the second in the series, like they did with the Tiger (ie Tiger-II Ausf.B) is unknown. Perhaps it was because it was a series modification and not a completely different design.
Finally, it's still completely unknown why the subsequent Panthers were designated ausführung G and F. To my knowledge no one has ever discovered why those letter designations were given to the third and forth Panther variants.
German AFV designation protocol is quite fascinating. Before the war they had a completely logical straight forward manner in which to label tanks and other vehicles (A,B,C,D, etc.). However, for some unknown reason, this whole system broke down after about 1941. It seems new AFV just received ad hoc titles and ausführung letters. It's quite amazing, some vehicles, such as the 7.62cm Pak(r) Marder-III, have something in the range of a dozen official names!
@@calessel3139 It might (just a guess) have something to do with the success of the "speeding up German industry production programs" of Albert Speer? Speeding up in industry is often realized by cutting the red tape, less control and oversight. Mistakes are more easy to be made and will not be corrected unless it's a matter of life and death. If someone made a mistake in the number of the gun in the drawing e g. 67 mm instead of 76 mm that will be noticed and corrected. But a letter D, A or G, nobody really cares about that and nobody will be killed because of that. Especially people already got used to changing (not logically) names on essentially the same tanks, e g. a Tiger 1 (prototype) became a Ferdinand and finally ended up being an Elephant. Another example of the breakdown in industrial/administrative oversight are the "production record pictures" of military trucks. You might get a certain record number picture of a certain month in a certain factory and a LOWER record number LATER in that year in another factory. It's physically impossible to UNproduce something, so the number should be higher or at least be the same.
@@johnsamu There most certainly must have been some nomenclature problems as a result of the increased production rate experienced by German industry and it's corresponding government agencies as production sped up during the war. Furthermore, the German's rather desperate need to modernize obsolete chassis by conversion into various S.P. guns seems to have resulted in various agencies and manufacturers bypassing the proper designation process resulting in labeling chaos. Thrown into the mix were new designs, like the Tiger series and Panther, which never received proper logical ausführung lettering. So as a result, the Germans ended up with an illogical hodgepodge of names and variant designations for their war time armored vehicles. However, it is interesting that this affliction didn't much effect the naming process of AFV designs created in the pre-war period, such as the Pzkpfw-III, IV or StuGs despite the fact that they continued production throughout most or all of the war.
Rip the guy on the left at 1:46
Why ???
@@raveinus denied his high 5
@@drvonschwartz
What are talking ?????
It took the resources of a billionaire to restore this tank. Sadly he passed away right after it was finished.
fw1421 he left his mark in history...
He wasn't a billionaire
@@donttreadonme4355 how u know
He could have willed me the Panther, not greedy...jus sayin...
@@jimmylight4866 It will also take a fortune to keep it on the road. There is no Tanks-R-US for cheap spare parts. Spare parts are hard to find and expensive.
I just saw this tank last sunday at the American Heritage Museum. Its beautiful. They tell story of how it was brought back to like new condition.
Could do a video on just the transmission 1:23
Well done! I would love to see it one day.
The Panther is at the American Heritage Museum (Hudson, Ma), Jacques gift a good portion of his equipment to them.
Awesome, watched the video when they relocated the tank in Poland, looks combat ready.
Amazing job
Very best restoration!!!!
Браво вам за ваши золотые руки это занятие очень интересным являются 👍
Gracias ppr devolverle la vida!!
i remember seeing this Panther for the last time before they started selling the collection :'(
Where did the Panther go to ?
I think maybe the samur tank muesuem
I don't think they sold the panther
@Hagmire84 I know this is random but I wanted to say Hell Let loose sucks ass
The former Littlefield Collection.
2:13 - shows an Israeli (IDF ) Sherman tank !! .The Sherman was widely used ( and modified ) by the IDF , and many ( and I mean many) variations can be found at Yad La-Shiryon (officially: The Armoured Corps Memorial Site and Museum at Latrun; Central Israel , sadly there are no Panther tanks , working or not on display ( yet )
The Americans could have used that Israeli postwar version.
That was an M-50 or 51 Israeli super Sherman
Pojazd nielegalnie wywieziony z Polski
Niestety raczej już nie do odzyskania. Cebula go sprzedała wbrew opinii konserwatora zabytków. Było prowadzone śledztwo, ale przedawniło się, więc umożone.
Teraz możemy jechać do USA żeby zobaczyć Pantere z Polski.
The Ultimate Tonka Toy😊
Who recognized this specific panther from the show Tank Overhaul?
1:05 I always thought those textured lines were lines of weld for some reason.
Pretty highly flammable too !!!
me too... i asumed they did that to give extra camo for shiny days, so the smooth surface doesn't give the tanks position away.
well, maybe a nice sideeffect i guess
It's an anti-magnetic coating to prevent infantry attaching magnetic mines.
It's known as "Zimmerit", and was applied as a paste.
That non reciprocated high five.....
Mortality rate is worse today
It s Ben a while since this was restored my question is what kind of motor oil do you use in the maybach , I don’t believe it would be synthetic,as but more of a zinc additive oil, just curious,
I was looking for what happened to the Panther taken from Poland and actually stolen from my country. After 1945, the Russians stole from my area, they rolled up almost 30 km of rails to Orneta. But then there was the communist system, but now it was like a democracy and the whole tank may disappear. This is our national tragedy
Stolen? More like saved amd at least this pantner got the restoration it desrved and not sit in poland as a museum wreck or scrap metal and thats what the polish army was doing when they tried too pull it out of the river the first time use it for scrap metal
@@Panzerfaust-cj8qt I understand, but after 1989 many tanks in Poland have been restored and they are working and moving. So before 1989, the Polish army cut many tanks for scrap, they also destroyed the barracks in Westterplate then we had no free country
@@Panzerfaust-cj8qt Not saved, but stolen. We have a lot of German tanks that have been superbly restored so if you don't know something, don't write nonsense. I will tell you more The Polish conservator of monuments has included this tank on the list of lost historical monuments, so now it is a stolen tank and, in the light of the law, it should be returned to Poland and America, as a lawful country, should comply with it.
@@pangowka2544 I still feel like it would sit too rust or not get the level of restoration that it’s in at least it’s been saved and is there for people too enjoy and ima leave it at that
@@Panzerfaust-cj8qt But whatever you look at it, it's a crime and you Americans are trying to establish democracy and the rule of law everywhere, so stick to it. And as for the restoration of the tank, we have a lot of tanks refurbished in perfect condition, e.g. Panzer 3 from the museum in Poznań.
Grandes!!!!
Stolen in Poland and You know that... I think You should return this Panther to Poland.
да, его нужно вернуть в польшу в том же состоянии в каком забрали.
NO, why, it's german , and they lost the war
@@holyman4027 No, it's Polish because it was excavated on Polish soil. And you Americans like to appropriate what does not belong to you.
@@Ontoshka1 Нет проблем, мы его отремонтируем.
@@pangowka2544 сомневаюсь! за те почти 50 лет, что танк был в реке, поляки ничего для этого не сделали.
Have 6 a dragon g is on way raised fan and night vision I will have to zimmerit this by hand....I have over 50 done and 50 german kits to go.....
100 German tanks ? That's only the beginning.
1:48 oof
F in the chat im high fiving him dont worry comrade
@@matija4256 F
this tank was bought via corrupted person from Poland, illegal purchase!
Yes, it should be returned to the German army, its rightful owner.
Money , money , money ....................
A stolen tank from Poland had no right to leave Poland. I believe there will come a time when our property will be returned to us.
Right after you give back East Prussia.
Errrr if you want to be pedantic it's the property of germany
@@gagasmancave8859 You are right but for some reason Germans get upset when someone wants to give them back a "souvenir" of WW2.
@@rolytomatoes7 Idź do Roosevelta i Stalina.
It's this stolen from Poland tank ?
tak, to ten kociak którego pewni panowie sprzedali
@@predi888 jedni sprzedali... pytanie jakim 'cudem' on pozniej granice przekroczyl.... jako zlom ?
@@maciejk7689 najprawdopodobniej, pamiętaj że to były lata 90, nie trudno było o taką akcje
Idiot
@@robinhinson606 ??? Read more about this tank history.
Одноразовый как гондон и БОЛЬШОЙ БУМ! пушка только хороша!
I belive that tank was stolen from muzeum work shop yard in Poland
SUPER GERMANY TANK 😎🇦🇿💪💪✊👊👊👍✌
Stolen in Poland!!
But not Polish property.
it is a pity that it was illegally sold and exported from Poland, nobody talks about it
Tomasz Mocek, I don't wish to disbelieve you, but citation needed.
@@kyokogodai-ir6hy www.rp.pl/artykul/1043874-Na-tropie-pantery.html
in the movie 0:46
One has to weigh which outcome is best for posterity: sitting submerged, deteriorating and pretty much forgotten in a river or restored and functioning again on a different continent. I vote for the latter however that does not belittle the fact that an export crime was committed. The Getty Museum among others returned looted ancient artifacts to Italy.
I am not sure what you are talking about.
Yeah stolen tank good job
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