Liz Ditz gets a no-prize made from a tank tread for bringing the Military Vehicle Technology Foundation to our attention:

Our goal is to acquire, restore, and interpret the historical significance of 20th and 21st century military vehicles. Domestic and foreign combat vehicles such as tanks, armored cars, self-propelled artillery, and other technically interesting mobile platforms are the focus of the collection.

They don't actually say their stuff is operational (the parts that make them roll around, not the parts that blow stuff up), but it sure does look like it from the pictures. She told us about them because our previous note about the F-18 at auction reminded her about the MVTF folks's ocassional problems with de-militarization (apparently it all turned out OK).