Kettering University student Will Foster builds fully operational half-size Panzer tank

Flint Journal ^ | 4/2/08

[lowbridge]

FLINT, Michigan -- Will Foster never has too much trouble getting a parking spot for his second vehicle.

After all, who's going to argue with a guy driving a half-scale Panzer tank complete with a working air cannon?

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Roughly the size of a small car, Foster's tank can reach speeds of around 20 mph with its three-cylinder diesel engine. Just like the real thing, the tank runs on treads and has a 360-degree cannon powered by compressed air from a scuba tank.

Its camouflaged plywood exterior has become a curious fixture at Foster's Theta Xi fraternity house, where it is often parked next to a shed with a sign that reads "Panzer parking. Violators will be totaled."

A builder and tinkerer since he made his first tree house at age 9, the Annapolis, Md., native came up with his first designs for the tank when he was 14.

But, he didn't have the money or manpower to pull it off.

Seeing golf carts dressed up as tanks in paintball competitions rekindled the idea and it gained momentum when he arrived at Kettering in the summer of 2006.

[Yossarian]

This is Kettering, once called ‘General Motors Institute’. When I went there, there were no liberal arts degrees - just EE, ME, IE, and business degrees. You had to get accepted to a 5 year co-op program with a company before you could get fully accepted to the school.

(The program was ‘3 month school, 3 month work’, and half of the student body (’A section’) was 180° out of phase from the other half (’B section’).

Things may have changed a little bit in the past 2 decades, but in general, such an arrangement tends to filter out the worst of the libtards.

[snippy_about_it]

Wow. We are really jealous. Thanks Phil.