The Buick M18 Hellcat does resemble a tank, but history buffs are quick to point out, it's actually a tank destroyer (TD) -- a now-defunct U.S. Army armor class. Back in the early '40s ...

No, I'm not talking about the Buick Gran Sport or Grand National - I'm talking about the M18 Hellcat, a World War II U.S. Army Tank Destroyer I drove forTruck Trend. This Harley-Earl-designed ...

Manufactured by Buick of General Motors from 1943 to 1944, the M18 Hellcat is one of the most famous tanks used in World War II. Officially designated a tank destroyer, one example of the 2,507 ...

And not just any tank, but the infamous M18 destroyer, better known as the Hellcat. Engineered after sketches that originated in the design studio of Harley Earl, the “Seek, Strike, Destroy ...

Which is just one of the reasons this 1943 Buick M18 Hellcat tank destroyer is an indisputably better vehicle. It’s not just the ordnance, though. The Buick Hellcat is such a well-rounded piece ...

Mossner served aboard an M18 Hellcat tank destroyer, as he and his fellow crew members ventured from France's western beaches all the way into the heart of Nazi Germany. Speaking to The Saginaw ...

An immediate response to that alliance is the presentation of an operational M18 Hellcat tank destroyer at the Museum of American Armor during its upcoming World War II Weekend (May 20 and 21), a ...

Although the M10 Tank Destroyer was already lighter than its medium tank counterpart, the M18 Hellcat was even lighter and faster than it. It's also a new design, unlike the M10, which was based ...

Friends of 51-year-old Steven Todd Preston say he bought the M18 Hellcat, which is technically a tank destroyer, several years ago and restored it. The M18s were used against German tanks during ...

Armed with a 76mm M1 gun, the M18 Hellcat weighed even less and could move faster than the M10 Tank Destroyer, with speeds of 55 mph on the road and 26 mph in mud. Despite being thinly armored ...

The men were attempting to fire a round from the armored tank destroyer's cannon when the round exploded at 3:09 p.m. Tuesday. The explosion happened inside a 1944 Buick "Hellcat" M18 tank ...

The blast, involving a 1944 M18 Hellcat tank destroyer, occurred Tuesday afternoon at a public gun range east of Bend. Paramedics tried to save the victims but they died from their injuries.