{"id":8167,"date":"2013-03-03T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8167"},"modified":"2013-03-03T11:42:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-03T16:42:12","slug":"the-economics-of-buying-a-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-economics-of-buying-a-tank\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Buying A Tank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/030313_1639_TheEconomic1.jpg\" width=\"641\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the United States there are tank brokers who can help you acquire your very own tank writes Michael M. Phillips<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The hobby is expensive. Purchasing your own personal tank can costs hundreds of thousands of dollars.<\/li>\n<li>Not to mention the maintenance costs. Vintage tanks require more than an hour of maintenance for every hour of operation. They also get about 1.25 miles per gallon.<\/li>\n<li>But they can be a good investment. A Sherman tank cost $75,000 in 1993. Now that same tank goes for $385,000.<\/li>\n<li>Believe it or not in certain states these tanks can have operational guns.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t expect to see these vehicles on the streets though \u2013 most tanks aren&#8217;t street legal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the upkeep required of a tank, the most sought after tanks, the difficulty of bringing American tanks home from abroad, and much more for those interested in acquiring a tank over <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324432004578302480951570270.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324432004578302480951570270.html\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2013\/02\/assorted-links-718.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the United States there are tank brokers who can help you acquire your very own tank writes Michael M. Phillips The hobby is expensive. Purchasing your own personal tank can costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. Not to mention the maintenance costs. Vintage tanks require more than an hour of maintenance for every hour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/030313_1639_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8169,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8167\/revisions\/8169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}