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Might be more achievable than you think... maybe not specifically the Abrams, but this Scorpion is available for £68,000, and you can get a Daimler Ferret for $35,000.
Then you can really fuck the cars.
Okay, fair warning to people who want to do this tanks are expensive to maintain. Not as bad as BMWs but still.
Fuck yeah, you better be ready to do your own maintenance work or you'll be paying someone else a lot. Tires for the armored cars are gonna be super expensive, and spare parts are gonna be worse if you can even find them.
Plus, you're gonna have a hard time parking anything bigger than the Ferret.
Thank you for bringing this glorious thing to my attention!
It's interesting, isn't it? Cheaper than a new SUV, small enough to park in a one-car garage, runs on regular gasoline, relatively easy to make street-legal in most jurisdictions, and common enough that getting spare parts should at least be possible. Not a lot of passenger space, but definitely enough power to be useful as a towing vehicle if you want, and obviously fantastic off-road capability, even amphibious versions.
Of course it's like 5mpg, worse than an old steel-body coupe.
Street legal tanks? U mad