Now this would make for a neat diorama. Now all you need to find is an appropriate 1/35 scale car. An Opel to be nice and accurate. Everything else would be pretty easy. Apparently the driver never saw the 60+ ton tank.

Why would he? The tank is painted camo

Hey Matt,
Where did this happen , somewhere in the Middle East?
The military types are wearing desert camo but they're wearing green webbing gear, the M1 is painted green, brown and ???? and it's been raining.
There also appears to be what I think is an oil storage dome off in the distance.

jjumbo

Could it be that this is some sore of training scene somewhere in the US? I don't know, but it looks like a nice dio possibility alright!

Rob

Car vs. tank. Tank wins every time.

This sort of thing happened all the time when I was in Germany. Mainly kamrad (German civilian) gets impatient and starts whipping in and out of traffic. He zips out passes a tank sees traffic coming at hm so he zips back in but tank in front is stopped. BLANG !!!!!!!!!!! Of course the Army gets blamed and we end up buying kamrad a new car. And yes, I know what the index finger to the forhead means ... and even when they turn it back and forth too..

"I swear, I didn't see the tank!" Really, that's what he claimed.

Yeah, right. It's 70 tons, 10 meters of green steel sitting stationary on the three-lane road.

http://www.primeportal.net/photo_home/nicholas_moran_home.htm

This picture was taken by Nicolas Moran during OIF. It was posted (along with lots of other great and funny shots at prime portal.

This should be considered barely a fender bender with a tank vs. car accident. The driver is lucky he isn't squished and dead.

I bet he got his car paid for courtesy of the US Gov't.

Looks like Iraq to me. Traffic is a bit different in that part of the world than most of us are used to.

Here is a small movie about what happens when a tank meets a Honda Civic. Never mind the Norwegian language, it is basically just technical data about the tank since the clip was made for Norwegian television.

Erik

The Civic "gets it" at the end of the movie.

All I can say is...muppet!

The only thing that comes close to the traffic out there is Paris.....

Mercesdes vs Leopard:

Small pink car vs tank

VW Golf T-boned my M88 in Germany mid 70's. Told the Politizi that he did not see the house sized, ground shaking, deafening vehicle, with two yellow rotating beacons and don't forget the yellow reflective tape on the dozer blade!

Tank vs car is no good but car vs bradley not much better have some great snapshots of such during OIF

november 76,on the way home from an alert,VW flatbed thing got grabbed by the sprocket of our lead M60A2. flipped the vw ,threw it to far side of highway.I think the picture made the front of the Stars and Stripes.

post them, I'd like to see.

its called the "Lugnut rule" If i've got more lugnuts than you, then you lose.

If it were a tank owned by Haliburton, they would of billed the governement for a new Abrams

I wasn't sure but I now know what my next diorama is going to be. This thread is a big hint.

Same thing happend here the other day with our new M1's. Apparently the driver of the car was drunk and did not see the tank. We at least we now know that the sand colour they are painted in works for people who drink. No need to cam the tanks now. We now just need to get the enemy drunk all the time so they wont see it.

Cheers Jason

jaaaccce!!! you beet me too it! d'you hear he was doing doey's too when he hit the m1? what a tosser!!!!

im amazed they didnt shoot that car straight to hell. after all a car in iraq speeding toward a US tank, could very well be a car bomb.

Sorry, ment to mention that it was here in Australia. About 200-300 kms south of Darwin in the NT.

Cheers Jason

HAHA! good to always see smashed up ford falcon even better by a tank. holden boy all the way! May i ask how did he get to a "tank" all the way out in the desert and what is the tank doing there? I mean ive only ever seen a leo 1 on the back of a truck but never one on the ground in reach of civilians.

what Leo, I only see Abrams

australia has just upgreaded to m1's from leo 1a4's KEV!! but jace i thought the tank was parked at the transport museum in alice!!! it was parked over night to be put on the nearby rail yard to be sent by rail back to darwn!!! but who really cares!!! the dudes shows what alot of people are like when they get cocky!! hahaha cheers