Footage has emerged of a man’s reaction as he realises he’s found £2,000,000 in gold in the back of a tank that he’s just bought for £30,000.

Joe Hewes, 23, sold an old Soviet War tank to tank nut Nick Mead in February unaware the gold estimated to be worth around £2 million was stashed away.

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Nick and Todd Chamberlain were then rummaging through the T54 Type 69 main Battle tank that Joe had sold them for £30,000 worth of vehicles when they struck gold.


But Joe is incredibly not to disappointed at the discovery and only expects a pint in return.

Joe said: ‘It’s crazy and a great find so I hope they get to keep it. Everyone is thinking I should be devastated to have missed out on what could be a fortune but I’m not too upset because I made a fair bit of money on the tank anyway.

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Joe Hewes, 23, has found out that the tank he just sold had a lot of gold inside (Picture: Caters)

If the new owner gets to keep the gold, Joe hopes he will buy him a pint (Picture: Caters)

‘I haven’t been in touch with Nick but if he does get to keep some of the some of the money, I expect a pint!’



‘It’s incredible to think for months I had quite literally sitting on a gold mine.’

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Mechanic Joe restored the tank which was captured and brought back by British forces from Iraq by fitting it with new tracks repairing its engine but never stumbled upon the treasure.

Nick and Todd from Tanks-a-lot in Northamptonshire were filming their through inspection of the Chinese copy of a Russian monster war machine in the hope that they would uncover at best a case of old weaponry.

It is believed the gold was looted during the Kuwaiti invasion in 1990 and stashed in the diesel tank.

The men found five gold bars they believe to be worth up to £2 million (Picture: Getty Images)

The gold was taken by police and it is thought authorities are now trying to see if they can match it to any previous reports of stolen gold.

Nick, 55, said: ‘I’d like to think we’d get whatever comes off from it.

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‘We’ve worked it out and after its split between all the workers here, we don’t think its going to be life changing amount. But obviously any sum would be a bonus.

‘I filmed it because I thought it would be firearms buried away in there because we can often find old bullets.

‘We’ve had a good laugh about it and I’m confident we’ll be lucky enough to get something from it.’