What a beautiful vehicle! Such a mere beast but I love the Sherman right along with the m1a2!

It's incredible the work and effort you guys put into restoring and keeping history alive, I know it is no easy feat and is not a cheap venture. This past winter I helped a friend finish restoring a 1941 Dodge military ambulance, the research he put into finding replacement parts was mind boggling, he wanted it to be as original as humanly possible, it has a full compliment of stretchers ( I supplied 1of them but cant say where it came from, lol ) the spring loaded fold down seats and new flooring that is as close to original as humanly possible. Thankfully the engine and drive train had previously been rebuilt and most of the work was cosmetic but it was still a boat load of work. It now sports a frsh coat of military green paint and a full set of medical emblems and numbers and looks ready to hit the battle field if it had to.

@828enigma6

4 жыл бұрын

A labor of love.

Me: A M4 Sherman fan Also me: *HYPE!*

To see that you guys stripped her down all the way to nothing but the bare hull then repainted everything and put her back together was amazing. She looks like she just rolled off the end of the factory assembly line.

Man... @1.55 I have to turn up the volume just to listen the engine rumbling sound . l Love that noise! .

Very impressive looking tank, I didn't know the M51 Super Sherman existed, looks like a quality restoration.

@denverhoward3446

2 жыл бұрын

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@makaitate6463

2 жыл бұрын

@Denver Howard Instablaster :)

@denverhoward3446

2 жыл бұрын

@Makai Tate I really appreciate your reply. I got to the site on google and im in the hacking process atm. Takes quite some time so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.

@denverhoward3446

2 жыл бұрын

@Makai Tate it worked and I now got access to my account again. I am so happy! Thanks so much you saved my ass!

@makaitate6463

2 жыл бұрын

@Denver Howard no problem :D

i was tour guide at jacques place for 9 years , i was the first to re start this tank prior to auction, so glad you guys could do something with it

love the sound of turbo spooling!

Sad to see a Sherman leave the US but if it gets love that's what matters.

@richardsveum8452

2 жыл бұрын

Not the first time this Sherman has left the states. Upgraded by both the French and Israeli’s she has had a long and historically significant life.

very nice ,thanks for sharing.

Looks like a very professional job! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Brilliant work. Hat doffed to you.

That is beautiful work guys.

M51 Super Sherman is also called: ‘Isherman’ (Israeli Sherman).

@Bosnian92

Жыл бұрын

You mean Psherman. PALESTINIAN sherman

Man, I was going to ask if they added any extra armor to the Super Sherman's but once seeing it stripped down!?!? Shiver... I wish I had the time, money, and know how to do something like this. Enjoy

Awesome project

There are some good looking tanks & tastes differ; but the T-34, King Tiger, Walker Bulldog, and Leopard G2A come to mind. To my eye though, for all it's trumpeted inadequacies, nothing beats an early cast-hull Sherman with 75mm gun for aesthetic appeal. Their lines are superb. Of course, when the welded hull became expedient, all those flowing lines were lost and the beauty evaporated. The Sherman became blocky and unappealing. It was the welded hull in this video's thumbnail that drew me in.

One of my favorite tanks!!!

@Filterzigarre

3 жыл бұрын

Why? He was the biggest trash on WW2

@pell9538

3 жыл бұрын

​@@Filterzigarre this tank wasn't for world war two it was used by Israel after the war, they upgraded it with a 105mm tank gun, not a howitzer giving it the fire power of a main battle tank while still using the chassis of a Sherman. which is better than what either Germany or Russia's ww2 medium tanks were upgraded with, closest thing is the T100 in Egypt which was more of a self propelled gun than a tank.

Doing a good job restoreing

It's hard not to love a Sherman.

@AScottish-AustralianM-84

4 жыл бұрын

@Loli4lyf *SOVIET TANKS* that's the country i prefer

@The.Drunk-Koala

4 жыл бұрын

Shermans are poop. I agree with german tanks are the best

@hevendor958

4 жыл бұрын

WTFgamer im going to list everything wrong with your comment 1st Sin: firstly misspelling Sherman at the beginning 2nd Sin: more grammar error 3rd Sin: the Tiger tanks isn't the strongest tank in the world, 10 more sins added 14th Sin: capslock there are 14 things wrong with your comment, next time check again ya dingus

@Agorante

4 жыл бұрын

The story of the Sherman is well known to anyone who cares to learn it's history. The Chieftain has a couple videos that tell the story well. Briefly the Nazis started invading its neighbors with good (not great) small and medium tanks. They succeeded largely because their victims were unprepared and the Germans were. They foolishly invaded the much bigger Soviet Union and discovered that the Russians had more, bigger, and better tanks. The Germans still had organization and experience on their side and won most of the early conflicts.This got Germany into a tank arms race leading ultimately to the giant Tiger and Panther tanks. The Sherman was a smaller medium tank. But for America it was a better tank. It was made with mass production techniques and interchangeable parts. It was thoroughly tested. It was very reliable. The Nazi big cats weren't. It was made in great numbers while Tigers were quite rare on the battle field. At Normandy we had five times as many armored vehicles as the Nazis. Even at Arracord where there were approximately the same numbers of Shermans and Panthers the exchange ration favored the Shermans. Some of the reasons America was slow to join the tank arms race and build bigger tanks was that we had to ship the damn things across an ocean. The Germans at the end were fighting with Tigers in front of the Tiger tank plant. And we were winning the war overhead with four engine bombers. At the very top ranks we knew we were going to win in August 1945 when we dropped the Atomic Bomb on Berlin. Roosevelt certainly knew this. But the Nazis surrendered in May 1945 - just a few months before we were going to obliterate them. Why bother with replacing the Sherman with the bigger, better Pershing when the war was almost over? We had already won all the important tank engagements with the little Sherman. The current enthusiasm for Tigers and Panthers stems from computer gaming. Agreed. The Nazi tanks are better in fantasy. The Sherman was a reality tank.

@flight2k5

3 жыл бұрын

@@The.Drunk-Koala no they’re not 😂🤣

Listen to the engine purr at idle :)

Great project.

Sweet!

M-4独特の暖旋回。 ターボチャージドディーゼルのサウンドが力強いですね。 (　＾▽＾)

That would be an awesome combination if they put that turret on a jumbo chassis

@typhoon1575

3 жыл бұрын

Could be cool but the weight of the armor on the jumbo over stressed the suspension to hell. Also even fresh post ww2 era the extra armor stopped being that effective

Very good!!!!

Really nice

Amayzing work.......

glad you to be back

@514thmick

7 жыл бұрын

To busy working on tanks to make videos, sorry.

@nevTk-oe9ud

7 жыл бұрын

Mick m8 , You need a live cam so we can see the work ! :)

@pcjbp9390

7 жыл бұрын

well, it can't be helped right? you are too busy with them, by the way i'm really enjoy your videos

A convertible , great for Sunday drive in the country.

Always admired the Sherman, especially the M51- but talk about an eggshell armed with a sledgehammer! That's what I need to drive to work, you would not believe the hogs here in central Texas.

@DET832

7 жыл бұрын

Go Texas !!

@johnwinter5236

6 жыл бұрын

Billy Sargent what do you drive a Toyota try hitting an elk in Idaho

@k6151960

6 жыл бұрын

I'm sure the intent was to engage at extreme ranges.

@kansascityshuffle8526

6 жыл бұрын

And yet the m51 wad created because they liked amx 13s gun but not its armour

@jamestheotherone742

6 жыл бұрын

In that era (1950s 60s) before composite or reactive armor, there was no RHA thickness that could defeat shaped charge ATGMs or HEAT rounds, so the lack armor really wasn't a weakness.

Ah this tank has been at The War & Peace Revival in 2017, '18 and '19, also at Capel in 2018 and '19. It's so good to see this version of the Sherman here in the UK. How much did it cost to import it from the USA? Was it originally made during WW2 then shipped to Israel for service there once it went out of US Army service then upgraded by the Israeli Defence Force?

There's an island park in my city with an M103 sitting in it after it was donated. Every year it sinks a little bit further into the mud. All the hatches are welded shut, lights removed, etc. It's a sad end for such a monster.

@828enigma6

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe someone will complain about it's presence and they'll decide to sell it.😁

why would they use an early chassis for this and not the plated armour chassis?

nice

Cool

Be good if you can add a narrative of what was wrong ,worn out etc. Thanks

P47 engine on tracks ?

When the Israeli converted these tanks did they have to beef up the transmissions any for the added weight of the turret and for the torque of the diesel engine?

¡Muy bueno! ¡Excelente, en verdad! Gracias por compartirlo.

🙏🏻👍

I play a game called Flames Of War, which is a WW2 miniatures wargame. FOW has a "cousin" called Team Yankee which is the same but modern tanks. Its cool because in Team Yankee you can use these Israeli Sherman's despite the fact your enemy is using an Abrams or Leopard.

@jbone7777

2 жыл бұрын

Should look up the book called Team Yankee. You would enjoy it.

One day M1A1 Abrams will be antiques and no doubt someone will restore them too.

@DeathHead1358

6 жыл бұрын

That'd be one hell of an expensive restoration given everything that's in them. Parts for the gas turbine engine would be almost as insane as the fuel bill for it would be.

@johno9507

6 жыл бұрын

DeathHead1358. Yeah, I was going to put 'by someone who owns a oil well' ☺

@saemushailstorm3135

5 жыл бұрын

yeah , FNG POS should be painted up & put into playgrounds for 'reliability'

Like it

Interesting as I have a picture of this tank on a low boy trailer that had pulled off the highway in central California taken on July 24, 2015.

What kind of power plant was in these??

@514thmick

6 жыл бұрын

Commins v903 450hp

@sghr220

3 жыл бұрын

@@514thmick Hey Mick. Do you have any photos of the gun breech that you can share? I am interested in the gun model and serial number inscribed on top of the breech. Should be something like: D-1508-XXXXX. Thanks in advance and nice restoration job.

The super Sherman was a coffin on treads just like the regular Sherman. Fun to restore and a hats off to the man but you don't want to fight in one.

Was this one of those tanks sold in Jacques Littlefield estate sale?

@514thmick

5 жыл бұрын

Yes it was

@shawnbowman3003

4 жыл бұрын

That's one of them

Ain’t that an m4a1 hull, but on an HVSS suspension normally seen on M4A3’s?

@jamestheotherone742

4 жыл бұрын

The Israelis did a lot of cobbling together from what they scavanged from Europe and salvaged after various wars to build the M-50/51s.

@albapfalzd3102

4 жыл бұрын

The M4A1 76(w) HVSS was built in large numbers and served in many U.S. National Guard units after the war.

What motor did this use?

@z_actual

5 жыл бұрын

Its a Cummins, circa 450 - 480hp

It was an American soldier who said that Sherman Tank had the nickname of the coffin of death off what they lost many men in this tanks.

👍 👍 👍

Anyone know what Diesel engine that is? Yellow makes me think a cat of some kind.

@dandestecroix5553

4 жыл бұрын

Most were fitted with HVSS suspension and Cummins V-8 460 horsepower (340 kW) diesel engine by the Israeli Defense Forces

@514thmick

4 жыл бұрын

Commins VT8-460

casual observation. are the bogies a different design?

@farmallskittle

6 жыл бұрын

they are from the e8 series sherman

france old Tank M51

Wow as Veti I can tell you that Tank hit Soviets made Tank T54/55 T-62, Long life iDF

How do you properly paint things if you don't take it 100% apart?

Why the coat of OD green paint?

M4 Sherman Revolorise

diesel power

Хорошая мишень

that have a cat engine in it?

@SupesMe

6 жыл бұрын

Cummings V-8

@brianpayne2478

6 жыл бұрын

Lol, no. It starts.

@bryan70546

6 жыл бұрын

Supes Me Cummins

No se ve terminado....así que no se ve un Sherman restaurado

Turbocharged?

I cannot believe this thing came with a turbo diesel. The US Army was running gas engines in tanks into the 70’s!

It's a nice tank but i do believe that not the whole thing is American the gun is french i believe

@uccaroo9468

4 жыл бұрын

Also i'm happy that they at least gave it a basecoat

@williampaz2092

4 жыл бұрын

The gun is French.

one day, i hope to own a stuart as a daily driver. i can only imagine it with a modern sbc 350 and some modernization to the rest of it's systems.

@budt5069

6 жыл бұрын

M4nHun73r you gonna need more than a 350 Chevrolet. Takes alot of horses to move those heavy bastards.

@crazyadam9281

6 жыл бұрын

Bud T you don't need a lot of horses to move a Stuart tank, the Stuart series at most had 220ish horsepower from it's Twin Cadillac Series 42 engine.

Israelis made good service of these old workhorses as far better Trained than Arab Tank crews of the time.

That is not a M51 Super Sherman or Isherman it is just the M51. The Israeli M1 is the only tank designated by the Israeli's as the Super Sherman.

The hooked nosed Sherman.

Why would anyone paint an M51 green? Or put a US star on it.

@reserva120

5 жыл бұрын

to rent it for movies an offset some of the cost..

@gunner678

4 жыл бұрын

@@reserva120 it looks nothing like a WW2 Sherman and that would be a problem for movies, it's an Israeli Icon (or south America), but it was never a US service machine. The M50 would work but not the M51. Still it's his tank.

@reserva120

4 жыл бұрын

@@gunner678 that's a rather stupid thing to say, if a movie needs a tank ,you saying like its a M5o an not a M4 is beyond idiotic ..Movies are entertainment NOT documenters.. you work with what you have..This trend of stupid F*cking kids on the internet complaining about whats real in a Movie, Fake to begin with , is beyond moronic ...

Great restoration, but it’s obviously not a WW2 US ArmySherman so why paint it in WW2 US markings?

Never ever ever never heard of it

You castrated it!!!!

Humm, a 155mm mortar carrier.

دبابات هتلر دمرت منها الكثير ليس لها فائده آناذاك😂🤣

@hevendor958

4 жыл бұрын

بادئ ذي بدء هذه الدبابات الأمريكية وليس الدبابات الألمانية

its actually french...

@iamkarma4819

6 жыл бұрын

mynameisray no both France and Isreal did similar things

@z_actual

5 жыл бұрын

the guns French, same as AMX 12

Should have gone with a m26 chasis....better suspension ....this makes a big target, the Maus would eat it for lunch

@bryan70546

6 жыл бұрын

yea a maus that never exsisted

@johngibson2884

6 жыл бұрын

bryan70546 One working prototype at Kubinka Museum , Russia ....Russians over ran the facility as they were assembling them . But for mass production, many German tanks would hit that big barn target easily . It was a King Ronson, like its little death trap brother

@Radzaification

6 жыл бұрын

The M-51 would eat the Maus for breakfast. It primarily fired HEAT and faced off for the time modern MBTs (T-54, T-55 T-62) and won. That's a 44 Calibre 105mm and can penetrate up to 400mm with the HEAT shell. That's a killing blow anywhere frontally on the Maus.

@crazyadam9281

6 жыл бұрын

The Maus in reality wouldn't of been a great tank since it self is a massive silhouette a nice target for bomber air craft to land hits on.

@stephenkeebler732

4 жыл бұрын

The Maus would have been about as effective as the Maginot Line...

Biggest trash Tank on WW2

It is iraqi tank 😡

The Soviet T-34 was superior to the Sherman in every way.

@chadjustice8560

5 жыл бұрын

It was superior in no way over the Sherman

@theorangeofallahpbuh1840

5 жыл бұрын

Chad Justice speed, armour, size, and modifiability

@chadjustice8560

5 жыл бұрын

@@theorangeofallahpbuh1840 Amour would be a big no. Size? Size of what?

@theorangeofallahpbuh1840

5 жыл бұрын

Chad Justice Armour would be a yes. Unless you’re talking about the jumbo. And we’re not including tracks added to it. As well as this, soviet armour was better much more sloped. And compare the width and height of a T-34 to a Sherman’s and there you have it.

@peterson7082

5 жыл бұрын

@@theorangeofallahpbuh1840 Not the case at all