First Look - M60 Engine Donation (Patreon)

Hello Patrons!

We recently welcomed Horstman, a company of the RENK group, to The Museum as they supplied a refurbished AVDS-1790 engine to help keep The Tank Museum’s M60 running.

The M60 was the backbone of the American armoured force from 1959 until the 1980s.

The Museum has two M60s, one as a reference vehicle and one running M60. Due to an engine failure in the running M60, we temporarily used the engine from the reference vehicle, which wasn’t ideal, but this kind donation from Horstman, means we can now showcase this key vehicle from our historical collection in the arena.

The M60 was the standard American tank for most of the Cold War and was the ultimate development of the Patton family of tanks that stretched back to the M26 of 1945 and has itself served for over 40 years with a wide range of nations, seeing combat with several nations.

Take a look at the supporter exclusive image of the M60 engine freshly un-wrapped.