Nick Mead had to exchange two more cars for the tank he wanted to restore as he says he deserved, but then he didn’t know he had just made the best decision of his life.
It was a normal day for Nick, the owner of the service primarily for restoring old tanks, Tanks-A-Lot, and his mechanic, Todd Chamberlain, when they started playing and working on their new project: restoring a Type Tank. Chinese 69, worth $ 27,000, a model produced by the Russians and sold between 1959 and 1968.
Todd would be the one to alert Nick that the tank could be full of weapons, the two had dealt with such old tanks, it was, in fact, their specialization. Nick, on the other hand, took a camera and began to capture the moment the tank opened. He wanted to make sure everything was documented for the police if the tank turned out to be full of illegal firearms, as had happened to them in the past.
According to The Sun, what they found surprised them: there were 5 gold bars in the gas tank, which, as they will find out later, could be sold for 2.4 million dollars! The ingots are believed to have come from Iraqi soldiers during the invasion of Kuwait in August 1990. After the discovery, Nick handed them over to the police to measure. Nick told the press, “Even if I don’t get the gold back, I’ll still have my beautiful tank.”
Here is the clip made by Nick himself: