Preston Tucker's MINI armored combat vehicle with machine gun turret
 

I watched a documentary this morning on the History Channel about Preston Tucker...he designed a military combat vehicle, armored and with machine guns and anti-aircraft cannons in a gun turret, and in the footage it really looked like a slightly oversized MINI. It was designed for the government of Belgium to repel a possible Nazi invasion, but alas it evidently was not produced in time to save poor little Belgium from being overrun. They wanted a vehicle smaller and more manueverable than a standard tank.

Here is an address for a picture of this vehicle but in the video it looked more like a MINI than this picture shows.

Preston was one cool dude. The US military eventually consulted with Tucker in designing the US Air Force's gun turrets on our planes in WWII


http://blog.modernmechanix.com/index...preston+tucker

the turret could be useful in traffic