Question: What is this on the Panther?
Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 10:26 pm
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?
Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 10:33 pm
The tubular part is a convoy light. They're shiny dark gray when unlit.
Re: Question: What is this on the Panther?
Posted: 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!
Re: Question: What is this on the Panther?
Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 11:42 pm
Learnt something new....thanks BWBigWall wrote: Mon Nov 09, 2020 10:33 pm The tubular part is a convoy light. They're shiny dark gray when unlit.
Re: Question: What is this on the Panther?
Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2020 2:12 am
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.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!
Re: Question: What is this on the Panther?
Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2020 1:13 pm
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:
