If you're going to restore a World War II tank, you'd better have highly-motivating reasons for doing it. Vernon Stout does, and one of them is so anyone who wants to can drive it.
OREM — If you're going to restore a World War II tank, you'd better have highly-motivating reasons for doing it. Vernon Stout does, and one of them is so anyone who wants to can drive it.
The outside was fine, but the inside needed a lot of work. Stout's getting on that, hoping to be done by September. They work on it on "Tank Night," which is Thursdays through the summer, and anyone is invited to help.The Stuart tanks were designed to run off a radial engine, but those were in short supply during World War II, so engineers put two 1943 Cadillac flathead engines in the M5.
Turning the Stuart puts the brakes on one track while the differential transfers power to the other. It will pivot, literally turning on a dime, but Stout says it will destroy the dime or anything else below it. He found this out on his farm.
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