This one has been making the rounds through the ole emailer lately. It's a picture of a man that takes true pride in his belly tank. It's not just an auxiliary gas tank to be thrown to the wayside once the fuel is used up or a fight is eminent... N... <BR><BR>To read the rest of this blog entry from The Jalopy Journal, click here.
Diffident use for a belly than than we are use too,,,I suppose you could call it a solar water heater belly tank. HRP
Around here there used to be a lot of them used for furnace oil tanks beside people's houses. Having made a shower out of a pair of 55 gallon drums in Viet Nam I can see that if guys in WWII had access to drop tanks they would use one to make a shower with. One of the parks up here had a ride using a batch of smaller tanks with little airplane wings fastened on them hanging from cables that you got in and rode in.
I liked things better before we became a disposable society.Getting multiple uses out of a belly tank says a lot about the way we were.
Just got back from Detroit and the Henry Ford Museum in Greenfield Village, where the Tom Beatty belly tanker is now on permanent display. All the crust, weld marks, dents and dings are left as they were... Perfect!
WHich size tank? It's not the recreation that was completed for Bonneville last year right? I heard that one is on loan to a museum now too.
Looks like he's on a base in the Pacific. Most likely a tank that had been dented/damaged/scavenged from a rough or crash landing- what better use for an "unusable" tank.
Cool picture of the guy standing on the tank. Chris ---------- This is the 100b tank. And this is the Bill Burke tank with first fire of the flathead on the salt. <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/i1wrTRsRwHA&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/i1wrTRsRwHA&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>
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