Walking through the cavernous storage sheds where the vehicles are parked nose-to-turret is a trip into the bizarre thinking that mechanized war produced over the past century as each side struggled to gain advantage. local time today, Friday, July 11, but we got a chance to scramble around on top of and inside a few of the vehicles before the gavel comes down. Staged by Auctions America, the event’s bidding starts at 11:00 a.m. The huge Pion, along with 120 other war vehicles collected over 30 years by the late San Francisco Bay–area military maven, Jacques Littlefield, is going over the auction block (figuratively, not literally) this weekend during a liquidation of the collection of the Military Vehicle Technology Foundation in high-class Portola Valley, just south of San Francisco. Price? Somewhere between $150,000 and $175,000, the sellers figure, depending on how many Second Amendment extremists want this thing. Parking this 43-foot-long Cold War monster on the front lawn is sure to quell any disputes with the neighbors, although you’ll probably have to make up new “This house protected by” stickers for the windows. For sale: one 2S7 “Pion,” a Soviet-made 51-ton self-propelled artillery gun with a 203-mm cannon capable of lobbing a conventional explosive shell 23 miles or, when things get really nasty, a tactical nuke nearly 19 miles.
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