Tank Tour: World's Largest Private Collection of Historic Military Vehicles (BB Video)

In today's edition of Boing Boing Video, guest-host Todd Lappin explores a massive collection of historical military vehicles tanks collected by an eccentric Silicon Valley multimillionaire. The recently-departed Jacques Littlefield amassed one of the world's largest and most significant collections of this type, and his collection is now overseen by the nonprofit Military Vehicle Technology Foundation. Snip from their description:

"Our goal is to acquire, restore, and interpret the historical significance of 20th and 21st century military vehicles. Domestic and foreign combat vehicles such as tanks, armored cars, self-propelled artillery, and other technically interesting mobile platforms are the focus of the collection. We also maintain an extensive technical library that describes many vehicles down to the part level. Aside from the vehicles, there are towed artillery, antitank, and antiaircraft guns. Military support equipment, inert ordnance, and accessories round out the collection."

The foundation is supported by public donations, and you can make one at their website if you dig what they do. To make arrangements for tours, you can email tours.mvtf at gmail.com. To arrange access to the collection for commercial purposes: permissions.mvtf at gmail.com.
The "tank tour" BBV shot for this episode was organized by BB pal Karen Marcelo and Dorkbot SF.

BOING BOING POST: http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/06/02/bb-video-tank-tour--.html

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[supra4mn]

ultimate zombi rescue team !!! 

[Microglia1]

is it legal to drive these on American roads? If I ever feel the urge to visit Compton, CA this is the way to do it.

[harryfaber]

@jamesmarshall49 The Germans used most of the WW2 French tanks they captured to invade Russia, along with the Czech tanks, in 1940, the French tanks were the best.

Modern French armour compares very well with any others in production today.

[aldomovielovers]

but it will blend ?

[nalacktack112]

in russia we use this to hunt cockroaches 

[DaManzMoney]

Ty Miss Littlefield

[randomguy8208]

i want a panzer

[alexkim50]

how did i get from watching donnie yen figth scenes

[ScottishUrban]

Dear Santa.

[xntrickk]

impressive collection..he was featured in the documentary when they were restoring the Panther, very cool to watch