YouTuber finds two tanks for sale on Facebook Marketplace stored in a Atlanta barn and flies out to find there’s a major issue with each one

This YouTuber found two tanks in a barn for sale on Facebook Marketplace, but soon discovered they had some issues.

Westen Champlin has owned several military vehicles over the years, ranging from trucks to jeeps.

But when he got the opportunity to buy two tanks out of an Atlanta barn, he thought he’d hit the jackpot.

Purchasing one tank would be wild enough, but this enthusiast wants to lay claim to two.

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What were these tanks doing sat in an Atlanta barn?

Speaking to his three million subscribers, Champlin told them that he’d discovered two Chieftain Battle Tanks for sale on Facebook Marketplace.

These rugged beauties came straight from the UK and had quite the Hollywood career.

They’d appeared in the long-running show The Walking Dead as well as the 2009 movie Zombieland.

If nothing else, at least we know these tanks have experience in an apocalypse.

That’s got to count for something, right?

An increasing amount of vehicles are being geared towards a zombie scenario, like this $2.9 million ‘Zombie Apocalypse Truck’ made in the US.

Apparently only one of them is running however, so zombie battles aren’t on the cards for now.

However, that wasn’t the only issue – Champlin couldn’t get a hold of the seller by phone.

So instead, he flew down to Atlanta.

Once he got the seller on the phone, it soon became apparent that things were a little more complicated than they initially seemed.

Champlin said: “The guy that owns the tanks doesn’t live in this state.

“The guy [I just spoke to] doesn’t own them, he’s just storing them for the guy that owns them.

“He told me that one of them runs pretty good and the other has a locked up motor.

“Who would ever think that in a random ass barn in Georgia there’d be two battle tanks?”

What sort of condition were they in?

Upon first sighting, Champlin’s brother commented: “Their condition is a lot worse than I thought it was gonna be.”

The two of them took a closer look, even getting up close and personal with the interior.

It was here they found that the insides were ‘corroded’ and ‘nasty’.

Champlin lamented: “You’d have to do a lot of work to get these things out of here.”

With each tank weighing 55 tons, hauling them out wasn’t a feasible option.

At that moment in time, these vehicles were just ‘cool f**king paperweights’ in Champlin’s words.

It was decided they’d return the following day with fuel, batteries and a ‘whole lot of will’.

After a $1,000 shopping trip to O’Reilly’s for supplies, they headed over to the barn.

Once positioned inside one of the tanks, Champlin would have the tank’s batteries passed through to him.

It was a very tight space in which to unhook some tank batteries, but he had no choice but to get to work.

After fiddling around with the buttons and adjusting the oil, they had a running tank.

Admittedly, getting it to move was a laborious task in of itself.

Champlin said: “After a whole day of messing around with it, we got it to move.

“We’re going to try to buy one.”

There’s nothing quite like a tank, is there?

They just have an extra layer of cool to them, and it’s easy to see why people are so fascinated by them.

In fact, one guy even brought a tank to a McDonald’s drive-thru in the UK and it wasn’t allowed in, as you might expect.

Elsewhere, an American man built one from World War One in his own yard.

To keep up to date with Champlin’s tank journey, head over to his YouTube channel.