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Home made tank and Rover

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Found this randomly on the internet, figured it was kind of cool, and it has a Rover in it too!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3397/327 ... 1da9_o.jpg

I made it a URL as the picture is quite large.
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Re: Home made tank and Rover

Post by Punx0r »

That doesn't look right at all!

I could perhaps understand the door glass remaining intact if the roof was peeled away from the door tops, but the rear quarter and hatch glass remaning unbroken when the roof if inside the car and the front of the track (deformed under load) is resting on top of the hatch?

The rear suspension doesn't looked bottomed-out, but I guess the bodypan could be beached on the ground. No deformation of the rear bumper though?

The panel gaps around the rear door are interesting.

It's obviously a photo of what it is, but it does seem a bit bizarre :?
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Re: Home made tank and Rover

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I wonder if that's how they got the idea of the Cabby!? :lol:
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Re: Home made tank and Rover

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LOL!

Is that supposed to be a Space Marine Rhino?
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Re: Home made tank and Rover

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It is indeed. There's a video if I can find the link as well - it's weird, the 306 they ran over defromed the same way. It does have quite narrow tracks, maybe that's why it broke like that?
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Re: Home made tank and Rover

Post by Rizzy »

i seen a monster truck do the same to a bubble 200 and another cara and both cars did same with doors and quarters. but one thing did spring to mind that maybe the cars are weakend to colloapse in such away to make safe? :?
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Re: Home made tank and Rover

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Vard66 wrote:LOL!

Is that supposed to be a Space Marine Rhino?
Looks like it to me... was going to say that looks like something out of warhammer 40k, just looks like a life sized model to me and like its been set up with the car underneath it? :?
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Re: Home made tank and Rover

Post by talkingcars »

when the tank ran up the screen and on to the roof it has pulled the centre down and away from the doors, because it has rubber tracks it has yet to put any weight on the hatch, looks like fun though.
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