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How to Park a 54-Ton Tank on Top of a Pontiac Grand Prix Sedan
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Click-click-clack! Click-click-clack! This is the sound of destruction, the noise of the rolling treads of a 54-ton military tank. My tank.
I’m at the wheel -- well, levers -- of a mean, green machine called an FV 4201 Chieftain. The 12-foot wide vehicle is peeling forward in a mix of dust and diesel smoke, heading for a parked Pontiac Grand Prix sedan.