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Pedal-powered Panzer tank

From the MAKE Flickr photo pool, Vin Marshall (Philadelphia, PA) writes:

We built an human powered panzer kampwagen III tank in 11 days. This was intended to crash the party at the 2nd annual Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby (we crashed the 1st annual with a pirate ship), but by the time we arrived, we were all too exhausted to do much party crashing.

Team pzkpfw

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Posted by: JackDubious on July 8, 2008 at 2:35 PM

Cool but....

Not sure how thats considered a PzkpfwIII, but its still cool :P

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Posted by: Anonymous on July 8, 2008 at 4:15 PM

That appears to be a Honda CB/CL 450 engine they're using as a transmission.

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Posted by: vlm on July 8, 2008 at 7:07 PM

Yup. It's actually a CB350 engine that my housemate had kicking around.

The differential was also free. One of the team pulled it from a Ford 8.8" rear he has slated for some kind of excessive locker and subsequent placement under some kind of excessive jeep.

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Posted by: vlm on September 22, 2008 at 11:24 AM

Team PzKpfw video

For anyone still reading this, the video about the pedal powered panzer is now up:

http://tinyurl.com/49rwfq

Enjoy,
-vin

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