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This Company Makes Money by Letting Civilians Drive Military Vehicles"We've crushed cars and motor homes. We've even driven tanks through barns," says founder Tony Borglum

ByJason Ankeny

This story appears in theJuly 2014issue of狗万官方.Subscribe »

Anyone who has been stuck in rush-hour traffic has fantasized about driving a tank and crushing everything in their path. Tony Borglum actually bought a tank. Then he bought another, and another. And he'll let you drive them.

Borglum's Drive A Tank lets civilians pilot close to three dozen disarmed and decommissioned military vehicles, navigating through a series of combat scenarios that unfold across the company's sprawling Kasota, Minn., property, a long-abandoned stone quarry mined during the late 1800s. Patrons also can bear down on rusted-out automobiles and other detritus scattered across the 22-acre site, rolling the tanks over anything and everything they encounter.

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