Pink Tank in South London

Robert Brook    says:

Russian, I think...

www.cubittartists.org.uk/mirpink.html
Posted 59 months ago. ( permalink )

davesag    says:

I am pretty sure it's a russian t-34. But i could be wrong. Great link to the tank being painted by the way. That's awesome.
Posted 59 months ago. ( permalink )

Skando says:

How cool! I remember seeing that tank with you.
Posted 59 months ago. ( permalink )

davesag    says:

hey sarah, so you did. i can't remember where we were off to tho.. those were the dark ages.
Posted 59 months ago. ( permalink )

khairoun says:

I lived near to this for a while when I was in Clapham - it used to patrol up and down acre lane in brixton from time to time, didn't seem to be connected to the squat in Coldharbour lane, just somebody's tank i guess.
Posted 58 months ago. ( permalink )

alexis! says:

Hmm. I think there may be more than one pink tank in London coz the one in Brixton was around b4 2002...
Posted 58 months ago. ( permalink )

phlezk    says:

hah! excellent!
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

jaqian says:

Great photo. Was this part of some art project?
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

davesag    says:

see the link in Robert Brook's comment at the top. It does indeed seem to have been an art work.
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

davesag    says:

woohoo this is my most viewed pic at 400 views.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

dooda    says:

Let me be the first to welcome you back Davesag. We almost started a thread only about you. Barrybar's been lonely, taking the heat on himself only, and it just hasn't been the same without you, please never go away again.

Oh yeah, this tank sucks. You've got the blurry wire thing on the left, the pink is hardly pronounced, and the framing is slippity sloppity (the bottom is fighting for space, the top has way too much).

voted as "deleteme" (from Delete me! group)
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

Suzan's World [deleted] says:

oh my gosh, a pink tank, I do not even wanna go there, dooda is already telling ya

-voted as "deleteme2"
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

Rentahamster says:

Didn't you post this tank already, like, 5 weeks ago?
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

davesag    says:

@dooda - thanks for the heartfelt welcome back! in true dm style. yes i've been busy. waddayamean *almost* started a thread about me - if you'd really missed me you would have carried on.
@rentahamster- yeah it was here in the 1st week of this group, and before the rules settled - i got caught out posting more than one image (the rules at the time saidi could post 3, but then they changed) so i pulled this and removed the dm tags and comments - and have only now decided to repost it.
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

amortize    says:

It's an interesting object, but I don't think this picture quite works. If the tank was more central it might work better.

Voted deleteme3 (from Delete Me! group)
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

sgoralnick    says:

an interesting subject poorly photographed

deleteme!
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

Rentahamster says:

Ah, so I wasn't just hallucinating from all that cocaine I just snorted off my toilet seat.

As I recall, the last time I saw this picture I voted "saveme". I don't know why I did that, really...be it my heavy drinking, my debilitating lack of good taste, or my horrible case of eye herpes...not too sure.

If I wanted to destroy mankind, I'm sure my tool of choice would be a pink tank. I can see the irony in that. Furthermore, if I were to sodomize my arch-enemies, my tool of choice, again, would be a pink tank. Of course, "a pink tank" would be my answer for a lot of questions, now that I think about it - like, "What do you want for Christmas", "Why do you hate yourself", "Where did you lose your virginity", "What food makes you fart", "How many fucking kids do you have", etc.

But that's neither here nor there. The point is, now that my eyes are sans herpes, I can see what an utterly reprehensible photo this is. Anyone who can't see that this work of art is clearly a glorified tribute to powerful and unlubricated ass-fucking is most likely blind and incontinent.

Nice to see you again, Dave :)

-voted as "deleteme6" (from Delete me! group)
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

_rebekka    says:

this is a bad photo of an unusual object covered with graffiti. I'm less than amazed.
"deleteme"
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

Lynn Morag    says:

Fun subject but not a great photo so deleteme8
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

MindSpigot    says:

It put a smile on my face, tank aren't supposed to be pink or covered in graffiti but it's a fairly average photo of good subject - deleteme9.
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

Tsjeu    says:

Was this part of a gay-parade?
Nice tank, bad picture.

voted "deleteme"
Posted 54 months ago. ( permalink )

Glyn1    says:

Here's the latest paint job of it, with an explanation from some of the locals:

www.flickr.com/photos/57351475@N00/34219878/
Posted 49 months ago. ( permalink )

GRANIX ben says:

what a wonderful tank!
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

StefZ says:

latest paint job - it appears to have taken up smoking...


Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

Katagh says:

To be clear on the make of the tank, it's a Russian T34 mark 85 made in 1944. In 1943, just after the big tank battle of Kursk, it was obvious that the Russian medium weight tanks had to increase firepower to be able to come up to the same level as the newest German tanks. The solution was a compromise that turned out very well. A new bigger cast turret with an 850 mm gun was put on an ordinary (but heavier armoured) hull of a T 34 model 1943, and the brand new model was born. Though it didn't look so well balanced with its big turret it was the fast solution to an acute problem. Production seased in late 1944 after a year's production of over 7.200 vehicles.

And now you can get them in pink to.
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

JLovely    says:

hahaha...that's too funny...


Please consider adding your photos to the 10 Million Photos group
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

SerialCoder    says:

This image has been added to the Flickr Museum for making explore's top 25. Kudos!You can check it out here...
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

aego1 says:

Hola, soy el administrador de un grupo llamado ¿que pasa en tu ciudad? y nos encantaría agregar tu foto al grupo.
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

Hotash    says:

and
please consider adding to
One Million Peace Signs
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

punkfishpat    says:

Dave this is a very original shot, i think it is the first time I have seen this shot of a london location with pink tank in it.
well done I shall be keeping an eye on your work.
Pat London UK
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

breefriendly    says:

Yes! I love it!!!
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

Panza Verde says:

Jajaja
Genial!

That is very funny... In mi pronvince, Entre Rios, there is a llitlle town called Oro Verde, and in its entrance, you can see a green tank as a a tribute for de army. Well, some boys painted it, and now some stupid judges wants to send them to jail....
They painted the peace simbol.



www.compactodenoticias.com.ar/nota.php?id=199 79

Best Regards...
Sorry, my english is very poor. =P
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

Tayne    says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Military Vehicles (UK), and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

ZEISS35    says:

Class picture! My grandfather burned in such (almost in such) in 1941 near Daugavpils. In the British army all tanks of such color?
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

B.e.D    says:

It's a T34 indeed. Poor tank
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

jmvanelk    says:

graffiti4hire says:

we just were commissioned to paint this tank a week ago!
this is how it looks now

Fotero    says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Arqueología Militar, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 3 months ago. ( permalink )