{"id":3248,"date":"2014-05-31T22:51:07","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T03:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=3248"},"modified":"2014-06-01T00:34:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T05:34:38","slug":"russians-find-a-67-hemi-belvedere-in-a-barn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/31\/russians-find-a-67-hemi-belvedere-in-a-barn\/","title":{"rendered":"Russians find a ’67 Hemi Belvedere in a barn….."},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok, so I may have misidentified the vehicle at first glance, it’s an understandable mistake. It’s actually a bit more bad-ass than climbing into some dusty Hamtramck steel, turning a key, and blowing a dead squirrel out of an exhaust pipe. What they did<\/em> salvage, was a Hitler-thumpin’, 152mm howitzer-totin’, Wermacht-squishin’ 50-ton ISU-152 tank destroyer that had been sitting in a field since we were still Liking Ike. (The russian name is “Zveroboy” , which translates to “Deerslayer”. With the possible exception of the glowing super-deer around Chernobyl that’ve been in all the news, I had no idea russian deer were robust enough to require a 152mm HE round to the face to secure a venison dinner. Ted Nugent has expressed his interest.)<\/p>\n

I’m mainly just throwing this in as a test of my ability to navigate the blog features, the page was in russian so I threw a Google-translation of the poster’s blog page after the link, sloppy, but you’ll get the gist of things. The actual start-up is about 10 minutes in, and things get rolling at the 12 minute mark. I can’t help but think that some similar scene happened behind PL’s house back in the day….<\/p>\n

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ISU-152 YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>” Deerslayer ” ready for battle !<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

During search operations in 2003 with . <\/span>Golinka Chernihiv region staff research and production company “Tanais” found self-propelled artillery ISU-152 ” Deerslayer “, which stood in the center of the village near the village council , and for many years partly rooted in the ground . <\/span>Acquainted with the local authorities learned that she came to him after the war, and its going to put on a pedestal . <\/span>But unfortunately it was not destined to become a landmark since the village council at the time there was no money for the construction of the pedestal. <\/span>And then about her at all forgotten. <\/span>Once it still used when it was necessary to uproot some powerful trees in the village center . <\/span>Trees tied thick chains and shipboard , for self-propelled guns had no problems with the roots to pull them out of the land .
\n<\/span>Remembered the self-propelled , when scrap prices have started to rise . <\/span>All hatches were opened at the self-propelled . <\/span>Locals and visitors were more likely to visit this place during the Second World War. <\/span>All that could be unscrewed and removed, was withdrawn. <\/span>Speaking of the gun. <\/span>She was ready to fight. <\/span>Lacked only striker . <\/span>We had to make demilitarization . <\/span>Gas welding and cut the barrel brewed bolt carrier . <\/span>But most importantly – the engine was in place, no one before him could not reach . <\/span>Experts have restored the power supply system and engine starter compressed air. <\/span>Cooling system lacked two radiators (they were made \u00e2\u20ac\u2039\u00e2\u20ac\u2039of aluminum ) . <\/span>Then established a system of fuel supply for the simplified scheme . <\/span>After many years of being in the open air , rain and snow have done their job . <\/span>Self-propelled start to rust from the inside. <\/span>Had to change the high pressure fuel pump . <\/span>Fuel and air filters also fallen into disrepair . <\/span>After all these events , we connected to the electrical system two KAMAZ battery. <\/span>Before starting the engine , we were able to use a crowbar to manually crank the motor shaft. <\/span>To our delight he was “alive”. <\/span>After the first attempt to start the engine with the help of batteries, “he cleared his throat, ” and earned . <\/span>With exhaust pipes flew leaves, and a lot of different stuff. <\/span>The driver tried three times to move the ” Deerslayer ” in first gear , but to no avail . <\/span>And only after engaging reverse gear , ” Deerslayer ” left his ” trench ” …
\n<\/span>And then someone joked that Tymoshenko is going on … The Supreme Council .
\n<\/span>And , after a short walk along the countryside ” motor noise ” heard by the district administration and the region. <\/span>And while the political situation in the country was not stable .
\n<\/span>Unfortunately , the police have lost six months to conduct examinations and audits of all documents on this occasion. <\/span>Fortunately all ended well . <\/span>Any violations of the law of Ukraine was found.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ok, so I may have misidentified the vehicle at first glance, it’s an understandable mistake. It’s actually a bit more bad-ass than climbing into some dusty Hamtramck steel, turning a key, and blowing a dead squirrel out of an exhaust pipe. What they did salvage, was a Hitler-thumpin’, 152mm howitzer-totin’, Wermacht-squishin’ 50-ton ISU-152 tank destroyer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3248"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3256,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions\/3256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}