Buy a tank on eBay, and the tank is full of gold bars worth millions of euros

Nick Mead was able to become a millionaire in a very peculiar way. He didn’t buy a lottery ticket, but… a tank. But not just any one. It was a tank that hid a treasure of pure gold.

This collector of military vehicles accumulates more than 150 on his farm in Helmdon, Northamptonshire, in the United Kingdom.

There he charges a small entrance fee for people to have fun riding in the tanks and military jeeps. That’s why he is always looking for new acquisitions for his collection.

A tank full of gold bars on eBay

In eBay You can find everything, including tanks from almost forgotten wars. Nick Mead found a salesman who sold a tank from the invasion of Kuwaitin the 90s, for about 36,000 euros.

It was a T-69 tank, a Chinese version of the Soviet T-54 tank, which had ended up in the ranks of the Iraqi army.

Legend has it that when Iraq invaded Kuwaitplundered the country and took away a large quantity of gold bars. It seems that the legend is true. As you can see in this video, Nick Mead records live as mechanic Todd Chamberlain finds something strange in the tank’s fuel tank: real gold bars:

In total, five gold bars weighing about five kilos each, valued at more than 2.5 million euros.

How did they get there? Everything indicates that Iraqi soldiers stole them in Kuwait, and hid them in the fuel tank of the tank. But then the British and Americans came to Kuwait’s aid, and some British soldier brought the tank home, like spoils of war.

That tank ended up on eBay, without anyone bothering to check the fuel tank, and Nick Mead was done with him.

With the gold in his possession, he was clear that he could not go to a Cash Converter or a bank and exchange it for money, so he did what any honest person would do: call the police.

The police gave him a receipt and took the goldwith the promise that, If no one claimed it, it would be yours.. We don’t know what will have happened, because the story has been around for a while. But Nick Mead will most likely never see that gold again.

The logical thing, in cases of war loot, is that the victim country, in this case Kuwait, claims that loot as its own. So it will have ended up in the Kuwaiti state. Who, on the other hand, is one of the richest in the world, so it’s not like he needs it…

It doesn’t happen every day that You buy a tank on eBay, and inside it is full of gold bars valued at 2.5 million euros. A story to tell the grandchildren.

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