[Olefin]

Originally Posted by Ursus Maior

That would be quite a feat, the M67 was built from the M48.

The earlier M67s were converted from M48A1 and A2 hulls and given their own turrets. But the later M67A2s were converted from M48A3s, which already had the diesel engine. The turrets would hardly be used, they were internally different and lacked the range-finder optics a tank requires.

I think any variant of M67 Zippo would be a good addition to a raiding force on the post-apocalyptic battlefields. But the M48 has one distinct problem: The older gasoline engines had terrible operational ranges of just 110-120 km, though fuel drums could extend that to almost double. Though, would you want an unarmored fuel drum sitting on your flamethrower?

The diesel versions had far better ranges (around 450 km for A3 models and close to 500 km for A5 models) and could use other fuel types as well. So, a early model Zippo might just stay a Zippo and do guard duty at an important site. On the other hand, later model Zippos might get rebuilt into main battle tanks again. All you need, basically, is a working turret and slap it on, preferably nothing too fancy, or you also need to do some re-wiring.

A Zippo on guard duty would be one hell of an incentive to NOT mess with whatever it was guarding. You have to be one hell of a dedicated raider to want to mess with one.