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a vault that does 60 on the highway, daring you to try something stupid.
means A heavily reinforced vehicle built to transport valuables, cash, or people safely through dangerous places, resisting bullets, theft, and assault.
from Both words are old workhorses. "Armor" rolled in through Old French "armure," from Latin "armatura" (a fitting-out with arms), itself from "arma," weapons — the same root that gives us "army" and "arsenal." "Car" descends from Latin "carrus," a Celtic-flavored word for a wheeled wagon. Glue them together and you get "armored car," a compound that surfaced in the early 20th century as militaries bolted steel plate onto motorcars; the cash-hauling civilian version inherited the name and the philosophy soon after.
- weight class
- can top 20,000 pounds, mostly armor
- tire trick
- run-flat tires keep rolling when shot
- crash history
- first U.S. armored car robbery was 1927
- glass game
- windows are inches of layered bulletproof laminate
- slow speed
- sluggish by design, harder to hijack
brink's mat robbery — 1983 heist in london where thieves stole £26 million from a brink's armored car depot
g4s cash in transit — south african armored car service that transports billions in currency annually across the country
loomis fargo heist — 1997 north carolina robbery where $17.3 million was stolen from a loomis armored car facility