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i feel gassy

Six Ways To Protect Your Tank From Gas Thieves

As fuel prices rise, gas is rapidly becoming an extremely valuable commodity. And after sharing the five best ways to steal gas last week, we figure it's prudent to do the right thing by providing six of the best ways to protect your gas investment from the shady characters out there wishing to make it their own. More »

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12:30 PM on Thu Jun 19 2008
By Wes Siler
30,610 views, 96 comments

Latest by n/a: Locking gas caps are great. The best ones are made by Stant, and can be defeated with a straight screwdriver and hammer. I've done it to customer cars many times. more »

novelties

How to Restore a Sherman Tank - A Pictorial

It's apparently forum project day here on Jalopnik. That Audi 4.2 V8 into a 1981 Lotus Esprit apparently wasn't enough, now we've got dueling banjos of hellish but staggeringly awesome projects. Try this World War 2 surplus Sherman tank restoration on for size. This thing was a mess of a wreck when our heroes started work, it didn't even have an engine. If you want to have the scale of your current project put into perspective, look though this masterwork of restoration and feel tiny by comparison. This needs to do battle with the 1/2 scale Tiger tank, wonder who would win? Just a tidbit of info as an aside - that engine in the back is both turbocharged and supercharged and they still turn out a version of it at Detroit Diesel to this very day. Tanks for the tip Schweppes [Rennlist.com]

5:20 PM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
3,569 views, 47 comments

Latest by MrEvil: In 2 cycle Diesels the supercharger doesn't count. All 2 cycle Diesels have to have a blower in order to function since they have no intake stroke. 2 stroke Diesels can't use the down stroke to push the charge into more »

novelties

Kettering University Student Builds Half-Scale Tiger Tank

One of the students at one of our alma mater, engineering-centric Kettering University in Flint, Michigan, has gone and stepped up to the tank driving plate, building a half-scale diesel-powered Tiger tank. We'd be lying if we didn't admit to more than a little bit of jealousy. Especially when the tank compounds the awesomeness by being created for paintball battles so it's equipped with a live air cannon for firing packs of paint ball rounds. Sure, they're not live fire shells, but it'll do the trick. Will Foster, we salute you for raising the bar higher than we saw it lifted in Flint in quite some time, and we're assuming you no longer worry about the minor issues that troubled us during our time spent in these ivy-covered halls. You know, things like parking during happy hour at Rubes, tuition prices and well, pretty much anything. We can assume life on campus is so much more easy when you're staring at it from up atop a mini-Tiger. (h/t to Adam Leech!) [MLive]

2:00 PM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
7,667 views, 57 comments

Latest by iamjames: @POLAЯ SAYS SOMEONE ELSE: you forgot to add the drifting at 1:10 min left in the video. tank drifting: 1 million pointsofficial sounding tank sounds: 50,000 points sorry the paint ball sound when he fired was pretty weak, so... weak sounding cannon: minus 1,000 more »

commenter of the day

Commenter Of The Day: Tanks For The Memories Edition

None of us want to ever complain about our jobs as, we're sure, there are tens of thousands of people out there that would take them in a second. So that being said, please allow us a quick moment of professional discontent as we envy Ben and his Dukakis moment. While we're out tooling around in Yukon Denalis, Foresters and STii, The KILLWOJDYLER (thanks elhigh) is reviewing a freaking R/C Tank. There were lots of great comments today, but if you think we're going to give them all play again you're crazy. More »

5:45 PM on Wed Mar 12 2008
By Matt Hardigree
713 views, 11 comments

Latest by Elhigh: Graverobber must die. Press the button! more »

test drives

Jalopnik Drives Real Live Tank By Remote Control, Can Now Die Happy

Guess who got handed the manual remote control pendant for BAE Systems' Black Knight fully autonomous tank? Yeh, I'm in as much shock as you are but can't stop thinking "Holy shit, I drove a robot tank! ROBOT. TANK." The 12-ton Unmanned Combat Vehicle (UCV) was developed by BAE Systems as an internal test bed for next generation technologies in ground warfare support. The Black Knight (we love the name, so take that Batman) is powered by a 300 HP Cat diesel and although it's quiet as a mouse is capable of up to 48 MPH. It's the largest robot with a safety release from the US military and has undergone field testing at Fort Benning. The tank can operate up to 15 MPH autonomously or by way of pendant in a command vehicle like an A3 Bradley from distances as far as three miles away. By the way, did I mention I DROVE A FREAKIN' ROBOT TANK? And now, since we did drive it, it's only fair to give it the good ol' Jalopnik Review treatment below the jump, star ratings and everything:

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2:59 PM on Wed Mar 12 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
20,922 views, 66 comments

Latest by SavannahJack: @sierran: Yeah, and no Hellbore, either. Still, I for one welcome this early model of our future robot overlords and wish them only victory and good maintenance. more »

death race

Exclusive Video From New Death Race Movie Features Mean-Looking "Dreadnought"


While we knew going in the Death Race "trailer" we posted earlier wasn't the real thing, our sources tell us like the Jason Statham screen shot we showed you last week, the video we've got up above is absolutely the real thing. It's some behind-the-scenes video from the new Death Race movie. That vehicle you see running through an industrial wasteland (that appears to look a great deal like a prison) is something called the "Dreadnought" and we're told it's up to no good in the Race all about the Death. Embargoes threatening our own "Death" prevent us from saying anything more. No need for us to give Universal Studios a free 40 points at our expense.

4:00 PM on Wed Jan 2 2008
By Ray Wert
7,753 views, 27 comments

Latest by wheels OF satan!: come on! IF ITS ALL THE SAME TO YOU, I'LL DRIVE THAT TANKER... more »

novelties

How Far Can You Cruise Past E?

My kindergarten class was located on the other side of town and while it was a good school there was serious risk involved. For some reason, my dad felt compelled to push our Isuzu Impulse, with its 90-hp four-banger, as far as he could before filling it up with gas. This meant that more than a few mornings were spent on the side of the road, waiting for Mr. Llamas to bring us some gas. If only there were a website to tell us how far our car would go past empty... More »

9:30 AM on Fri Dec 14 2007
By Matt Hardigree
2,478 views, 51 comments

Latest by Frost Face: WTF is up with all these people on that site paying $400 for a fuel pump or the "16 year master mechaninc" claiming $1K for a fuel pump. High performance race pumps that are standard replacements cost less than more »

retro

Yours For Only 55 Grand: 1957 Fletcher Aviator

When reader Thunder sent in the tip about this car, we all went "Damn!" But then we noticed the asking price and there was just this... silence. It's a reproduction of a 50s/60s Bonneville F-100 wink tank racer, with blown small-block and even license plates. Is it worth the price? Make the jump, take the poll, and let us know! [CarsOnline-Ads.com] More »

12:45 PM on Wed Dec 12 2007
By Murilee Martin
1,696 views, 34 comments

custom cars

Out of the Way, Knaves: It's Tank Limo!

From the Fun with Government Surplus department comes Tank Limo, the toy-slash-business of some blokes with big ideas and a fleet of military equipment. It's a renovated field hustler fitted with smoked glass, a fridge, twin DVD players, back-up cameras and completely retrimmed interior. They're in process of installing 44 feet of remote neon tubes and a Jacuzzi, about which they say, "If you hear a rumor it's a 5 foot sheep dip with a pump and heat exchanger it might not be true." It can fit three crew and eight passengers (the tank, not the jacuzzi) and is perfect for weddings, proms or launching a coup on Bolivia. Your choice. [Tank Limo via Make]

10:12 AM on Tue Sep 18 2007
By Mike Spinelli
968 views, 4 comments

Latest by n/a: Fire engine limos are quite popular in the UK, so I suppose this was inevitable. more »

things that changed the world

Stop Worrying and Love the T-34



We here at tha Jalop tend toward two sorts of vehicular affection. We adore the high-tech and revolutionary, but we're just as smitten with mass-produced machines for the general populace. The T-34 strikes us as the 20th Century vehicle that really hit smack-dab in the middle of that matrix. It was KISS-simple, it worked well, and its continued supremacy was a result of an incredible logistic reorganization of the world's largest nation's manufacturing base. As is the unfortunate case of practically any large-scale government project, there were many, many tragic human casualties, and the subject of that is an Encyclopedia Brittanica-length story in and of itself. Nevertheless, the T-34 stands as one of the most world-changing vehicles of the 20th Century, and to be honest, while we could never see ourselves rolling in a King Tiger, despite its inherent, unfortunate majesty, and we've always found Shermans a bit ungainly, we could roll correct in a T-34. The rest of the T-34 saga after the jump. More »

9:45 PM on Thu Jul 26 2007
By Davey G. Johnson
1,328 views, 6 comments

Latest by DougN: Thats ok, my Tiger I or Panther G will totally take out your T-34 from long range while you are still waiting to get close enough to fire your main gun! And while you're a smoking wreck sans turret, I'll more »

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retro

Renault: Born From Tanks

With Saab's "born from jets" ad campaign attempting to convince buyers that badge-engineered Opels are really just as cool as Mach 2 fighter planes, we find ourselves wishing Kaiser still made cars so they could have a "born from huge oceangoing freighters" campaign. But no matter- Renault's got everyone beat with the great-great-grandpappy of every Renault on the street today: the FT-17 tank. With production starting in late 1917, the FT-17 was so revolutionary (the first tank to have its cannon in a fully rotating turret, among other innovations) that the prospect of thousands of them clanking inexorably across the battlefield was one of the factors that drove the Hun to launch his ill-fated 1918 offensive. – Murilee Martin More »

10:45 AM on Thu May 10 2007
By Murilee Martin
369 views, 5 comments

Latest by lascauxcaveman: Wow, the French actually beat the Germans at something? I know 1918 was awhile ago, but hey, big ups, France! more »

clips

Hoon of the Day: Tank Drifting!

When you're a tank company of the Swedish armed forces, we'd imagine there's not much else to do but hoon around a frozen lake and practice two-track drifting techniques. Or, even possibly invent some two-track drifting techniques in your Leopard 2A4. You just know this'll spark some kind of annual event up there, which we'll see on BBC World next year. [Thanks to Jealousy for the tip.] – Mike Spinelli More »

11:00 AM on Fri Mar 23 2007
By Mike Spinelli
8,226 views, 13 comments

retro

Early Porsche Hybrid: The Ferdinand/Elefant

As commenter DougN pointed out earlier, Ferdiand Porsche's design for the Tiger tank was passed over for a design by Henschel. However, an armor-hungry Wehrmacht did end up with a retooled version of Porsche's Tiger in tank-killer guise. The Ferdinand had its air-cooled Porsche powerplants yanked and replaced with a pair of 300hp Maybach engines used to power electric motors. Fuel economy was an astonishing 1/4mpg. Fitted with a Krupp 88mm gun, the Ferdinands fared poorly at Kursk, where nearly half the force was lost. More »

4:45 PM on Wed Mar 7 2007
By Davey G. Johnson
1,459 views, 5 comments

Latest by my favorite car is a motorcycle: @my favorite car is a motorcycle: http://mailer.fsu.ed more »

custom cars

A Big, Big Block: Ford Tank Engine in a Mustang

Should there ever be a Nobel prize for swapping huge engines from military vehicles into passenger cars, Jay Leno would probably be called to Oslo. But for every Leno there are probably at least five guys like Locomotive Breath from the Jalopy Journal forums. Into his 1970 Mustang, he dropped in a 1,100 cubic-inch Ford V8 — from a WWII Sherman tank — that makes a 427 cammer look like, oh I don't know, a Duratec 23? A Briggs and Stratton four stroke? Originally rated at 500 hp and a European theater-stomping 1,050 lb-ft. of torque, he says it's capable of far more by way of some modernizing. What manner of transmission might be under there? He says it's a "heavily modified Powerglide." You think? [Thanks to Mark for the tip.] – Mike Spinelli More »

8:24 AM on Tue Feb 6 2007
By Mike Spinelli
2,237 views, 2 comments

Latest by MarionCobretti: That is awesome. A four-cam, all aluminum, 1100 cubic inch V8 is enough, but with a 180-degree (flat plane) crank...holy shit. That thing must sound like a pissed off Incredible Hulk to a 360 Modena's Bruce Banner. Someone more »

retro

Major-General Sir Percy Cleghorn Stanley Hobart's Funnies

We spent some of last night watching parts of Patton, one of our favorite films, and alongside Apocalypse Now, the greatest war movie in our personal book. Although we like the one where Ronald Reagan bombs the Minutemen very much as well. So we got to thinking about Operation Overlord. And then we got to thinking about all of the specialized things that were cooked up to make the invasion happen. And while Mulberry Harbours are cool, we must admit that we've always loved "Hobart's Funnies," a motley collection of custom tanks that threw flames, lobbed 40-lb mortar shells, swam, cleared mines, blew up reinforced-concrete walls and served as bridges. More »

9:15 AM on Fri Dec 22 2006
By Davey G. Johnson
316 views, 2 comments

Latest by imoody: There are, scotte, they're just not tanks. more »

novelties

In Soviet Russia, Tank Flies YOU!

Sweet Mother of Marshal Zhukov! If there was ever a definition of Crazy Ivan, this thing is it. Oleg Antonov, answering a mandate from Uncle Joe's Flying Squad to come up with a method of airborne self-propelled armor delivery, invented this thing: the Antonov A-40 Tank Wings. Designed to be towed to an LZ by a bomber, it wasn't much of a tank and in 1942, the Air Force didn't have a plane powerful enough to tow it without overheating. However, it did fly successfully once. And really, once you've flown a tank, what is there left to do in life? – Davey G. Johnson More »

8:00 AM on Fri Dec 22 2006
By Davey G. Johnson
488 views, 7 comments

Latest by iamjames: here's the link to the American site: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/07/10/flying-tanks-tha... according to the dates we thought of it first and the russians stole the idea more »

tank

Your Moment of Arctic Zen: The Tankpedition!

While we still greatly prefer the Volgamino (hell, we'd drive over our own mother in this here Tankpedition for just five minutes seat time in that jacked up Russian hottie), in a real-world breakaway republic situation, this might be the right tool for the job. Bumbeck to orgasm after the jump. – Jonny Lieberman More »

5:00 PM on Fri Dec 8 2006
By Jonny Lieberman
3,833 views, 16 comments

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