From the “why haven’t I seen this before file” comes a post on our forums. ClassicCar.com forum member silverone has uploaded some very cool pictures of a World War II era Soviet tank being pulled out of an Estonia lake back in 2000. The tank was submerged by the Germans in 1944 and rested at the bottom of the lake ever since. You won’t believe the condition the tank was in after being pulled out of the gunk. Give it a wash and it would look like it had spent 56 years in a museum and not at the bottom of a bog.

Click to see the rest of the photos and read the story of how the tank came to lay at the bottom of the lake only to be recovered decades later. You can also visit English Russia to see some video and read more.