Question: What is this on the Panther?

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Question: What is this on the Panther?

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Does anyone know what this is hanging from the rear driver's side sponson?

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Re: Question: What is this on the Panther?

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The tubular part is a convoy light. They're shiny dark gray when unlit.
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Oh, so it is a marking light for road marches. I thought I'd read somewhere that Panthers didn't have rear lights. Guess I was wrong, thanks BigWall!
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BigWall wrote: Mon Nov 09, 2020 10:33 pm The tubular part is a convoy light. They're shiny dark gray when unlit.
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Engine95 wrote: Mon Nov 09, 2020 11:16 pm Oh, so it is a marking light for road marches. I thought I'd read somewhere that Panthers didn't have rear lights. Guess I was wrong, thanks BigWall!
I honestly don't know if Panthers had them or not. I'm just judging off of appearance that this is what's being modeled there.
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Re: Question: What is this on the Panther?

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No, you were right BigWall. Once I started searching using the right terms I came up with better results. For example, they apparently moved the convoy light on later production models as evidenced by this one on the Littlefield Panther post restoration:

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