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It’s Just Cool: Tank Drifting, Swedish Style

By Sean O'Hara


What do you do when you’re a bored twenty-something tank driver freezing your ass off in the middle of a Swedish winter?  You take that 62-ton Leopard II clone out in the snow and drift your heart out.

Seeing this firms up my opinion that we need a tank racing series on Speed next year, and reminds me again that you might take a kid out of racing, but no matter how hard you try, you’re not taking racing out of a kid.


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2 Responses to “It’s Just Cool: Tank Drifting, Swedish Style”

  1. bodiby Says:
    April 20th, 2007 at 2:29 pm

    Cool but kind of expensive. My old 6-cylinder Camaro was a lot cheaper and would drift for hours!

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    November 8th, 2007 at 6:10 pm

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