A tank of another color....

Jerry Carducci · Post by **Jerry Carducci** » Sun Mar 28, 2021 9:58 am

Forgive the poor quality of the photos, they are the only ones I have of this. This had been an 'opportunity long ago to get one of the
models used in the film "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade". Apparently the scene where the tank drives over the cliff was filmed somewhere in the Bay Area of at Skywalker ranch and when the scene's filming was complete the model(s) were dumped at an area scrap yard. a friend at the time was notified
and off we went to see this thing. I don't know if this one was the model that actually made it into the film but the damage to the right front sponson matched what you would have expected from what is seen in the film. Most of the model was there (except the turret) with a few sections 'spirited away' by workers. The owner of the yard was willing to let me have it and would have even rounded up the other missing parts but I turned it down. The model didn't really have any suspension and was only sophisticated enough to serve the filming needs. And it was huge, heavy and at the time I didn't want more junk in my over burdened back yard. Plus I'd learned that the thing had been brought there with the express instructions that it was to be destroyed and that made me just a tad uncomfortable... Anyway there it is.

Jerry

Chris Hall · Post by **Chris Hall** » Sun Mar 28, 2021 10:45 am

I would have given that a home ....

Steve Lewington · Post by **Steve Lewington** » Sun Mar 28, 2021 1:12 pm

Me as well Chris what a great project that would make.
Steve

Adrian Harris · Post by **Adrian Harris** » Sun Mar 28, 2021 1:40 pm

Having seen an episode of Pawn Stars recently where the cobbled together blaster used by Han Solo in the first Star Wars was valued at over a million dollars, I can't imagine what this would be valued at now. The cynic in me wonders if they did in fact destroy it.

Adrian.

Chang · Post by **Chang** » Tue Mar 30, 2021 7:10 am

Read from the Twitter & Reddit:

The model used in filming the cliff falling scene was a 2 meters long (about 1: 6 scale), propelled with the engine of an old lawn mower, built by ILM:"