A tank of another color....
Posted: 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
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
