2 January 2007

A tank at Summernats?

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Chris sent in the following piccie of a tank (M1?) being hauled into EPIC, one suspects for Summernats.

Anyone know more?

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Has that been a problem with the M1?

100 bucks says aussie M1’s have a drivetrain replacement program within 5 years.

The Aussie M1 won’t be using DU.

Thank’s for that Johnboy.

‘DU’ certainly makes a mess when it enters the turret/body of an formerly opposing AFV akin to a phosphorus round going off. Contents of the AFV instantly becoming crispy cridders. Not to mention the civilian toll with folks climbing all over them after the event. Hope our A1’s have been ‘cleaned’…..

From the pic of the tank in CT today, the Army has some explaining to do about its contribution to air pollution. Surely some engine tuning and exhaust work wouldn’t dent the 5 gallons to the mile performance too much??

Sadly DU doesn’t make things glow, due to the Depleted nature of the Uranium in DU.

It is, however, staggeringly poisonous.

As for the rubber tank round? It’s big enough to get clever with, reduce the charge to 1/100th (1/1000th? we can experiment) and have it deploy a beachball or somesuch?

Any time you knock people off their feet the chance of death starts getting up though, probably better to fit it with a high pressure water hose.

I hear in Chile they mix the water in the tanks of the riot control vehicles with raw sewage and capsicum spray, really gets people moving.

Nah pile them into whatever corporate sponsored car that wins best street machine and hit it with a ‘DU’ round… then have the remain bogans collect the pieces that are glowing in the dark

Regular rubber bullets can kill. Rubber M1 rounds would remove whatever body part they hit?

Just arming the guns with rubber bullets would be amusing.

How about a game of tank jelly-wrestling? 30 bogans armed with jelly vs an M1A1 Abrams loaded with frag.

The tank *is* Chic Henrys head !

They said he was ugly – but im surprised lol

The tank could shoot Chic Henry in the head, and it still wouldn’t do any damage!

“hy take it to the nats if you don’t want anyone to take any interest in it?”

Because you are a wanker.

This thread should be entitled “What is the tank doing, or what should it be doing?”. I have some ideas

i remember going to the nats one year with my friend and his brother-in-law and nephew. the kid took a fancy to a glossy cortina with an exhaust the size of a storm water drain and as he was walking behind it to have a look, the owner ran over, jumped in, gunned the engine (causing the kid to scream in fright) and then lit the tyres up reversing it (and almost over the kid).

really made me feel welcome be around all that. oh, and don’t get me started on the loser with the chevy eight in his volvo who wouldn’t talk to anyone about it. why take it to the nats if you don’t want anyone to take any interest in it?

Especially those climbing the corporate ladder in the ‘show us your t*ts’ industry

And let’s face it, Summernats has done wonders for empowering women and destroying the glass ceiling of corporate life.

Its a hypothetical bogan day out.

*This is my official Mrs Danman disclaimer*

Any similarity my characters portrayed in the above fictitious post to persons both living or dead is purely coincidental.

“I would definetly take my fat bulky sweaty ugly wife there…”

If that isn’t affection I dunno what is 🙂

Never thought of it that way Danman, maybe you’re right

VG Its a family event, no Im serious.

I would definetly take my fat bulky sweaty ugly wife there and flash her tits on her behalf – hay at least the kids will be having fun in their grubby black airbrushed shirts while holding daddys beer with a grubby little hand while daddy shows the world mummys (lack of) talents

Nice try Ralphy boy, but none of my family have, or ever will be, in attendance at the said ‘festival’.

Use a Hornet to napalm the crowd, and then send in the Abrams to clean up any survivors.

This the one big weekend where all of vg’s kissing cousins come to town.

VYBerlinaV8_now with_added_grunt8:02 am 03 Jan 07

And here was I thinking the focus of the story would be that sweet blue ford laser in the photo. Silly me.

In response to vg’s comment – yes there are naked women there, and yes they have some quality control problems.

C’mom fellas its the Nat!

Lets start a M1 club to rival the mile high club. I just go gaa gaa for wimin officers in uniform.

i saw them setting up the Army tent at the Nats as I drove past this arvo. Was kinda cool seeing a Tank amongst the supercharged Chevy trucks.

62 tonnes of share the love.

“full of womanising bogan losers”

Actually they wish they were womanisers. The closest many of them will get to a set of breasts is by screaming boganity at the semi naked slappers there.

Maybe its the shuttle bus for the female attendees.

Summernats is (after working there 3 consecutive years) full of womanising bogan losers

swissbignose6:48 pm 02 Jan 07

I’m pretty sure that Summernats is a prime recruitment drive for the army, for similar reasons that the U.S. military are most successful in their recruitment from the Southern states.

The army is showing off one of its new Abrams tanks at Summernats.

New form of crowd control?

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