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When I was doing more driving before, I was getting tired of other other drivers cars constantly cutting me off on the road, so I have obtained two vehicles to help keep those annoyances to an absolute minimum. Here are a couple of replicas of them. Mileage isn't so great, but they are effective .
Lol, it is made by ROCO in Austria as part of their extensive range of world armored vehicles. I believe it is a U.S. Army self-propelled howitzer, perhaps from the 1950's or so and maybe with a 180 mm howitzer. The model is maybe in about 1/144 scale or so ? I got a number of these Austrian brand armored vehicles at a local hobby shop when I was a kid.
It probably gets about 4 gallons per mile or so. But nobody else on the streets and roads would be so foolish to complain about the driver holding up traffic at it's top speed of 9 or 10 miles per hour.
Lol, it is made by ROCO in Austria as part of their extensive range of world armored vehicles. I believe it is a U.S. Army self-propelled howitzer, perhaps from the 1950's or so and maybe with a 180 mm howitzer. The model is maybe in about 1/144 scale or so ? I got a number of these Austrian brand armored vehicles at a local hobby shop when I was a kid.
It probably gets about 4 gallons per mile or so. But nobody else on the streets and roads would be so foolish to complain about the driver holding up traffic at it's top speed of 9 or 10 miles per hour.
Very cool ! Perhaps not the most luxurious and comfortable of rides........ but pretty safe. And I would take safer over comfortable any day in that situation !
Mike Minitanks are HO scale. Cars and tanks are not good on same road. I was told about a Porsche driver that crashed into the back of M60 and came out looking like a pancake. One night a friend and I were returning from Trier when a German MP waved us to the side of the road with no explanation. I wondered what we had done wrong when we heard a loud rumble and rattle and realized there were tanks coming at us. It was too dark to see them till they passed. I could see their outline and recognized them as M48s we had given the Germans. After they passed my friend, who had just arrived in country the day before, asked nervously if this happened often.
