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**Ryan** · 08-02-2010, 06:34 AM

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...

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**HOTRODPRIMER** · 08-02-2010, 06:38 AM

Diffident use for a belly than than we are use too,,,I suppose you could call it a solar water heater belly tank.

HRP

Bugsy · 08-02-2010, 07:13 AM

Classic, American ingenuity at it's finest!! Wash your ass now, haul your ass later! Good stuff!!!

**Mr48chev** · 08-02-2010, 08:41 AM

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.

flamingokid · 08-02-2010, 10:44 AM

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.

**Jive-Bomber** · 08-02-2010, 11:38 AM

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!

JeffreyJames · 08-02-2010, 11:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jive-Bomber

Just got back from Detroit and the Henry Ford Museum in Greenfield Village, where the Bill Burke 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.

**Okie Pete** · 08-02-2010, 07:26 PM

Bet he was a Farm boy . I have seen pic's where the tanks were used for fuel tanks on the farm.

**Jive-Bomber** · 08-02-2010, 08:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JeffreyJames

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.

It was Tom Beatty's famous 100B tank, not Burke's!

I was asleep when I wrote that.

Mac the Yankee · 08-02-2010, 08:45 PM

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.

sodbuster · 08-03-2010, 08:48 AM

Cool picture of the guy standing on the tank.

Chris

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This is the 100b tank.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jive-Bomber

It was Tom Beatty's famous 100B tank, not Burke's!

I was asleep when I wrote that.

And this is the Bill Burke tank with first fire of the flathead on the salt.

08-02-2010, 06:34 AM	#1
Ryan Administrator Join Date: Jan 1995 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 13,688	The Belly Tank 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... To read the rest of this blog entry from The Jalopy Journal, click here.

08-02-2010, 06:38 AM	#2
HOTRODPRIMER Alliance Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Anderson,S.C. Posts: 17,123	Re: The Belly Tank Diffident use for a belly than than we are use too,,,I suppose you could call it a solar water heater belly tank. HRP __________________ Tradition without intelligence is not worth having. T.S. Eliot '54 Ranch Wagon build photos

08-02-2010, 07:13 AM	#3
Bugsy Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Kansas Posts: 850	Re: The Belly Tank Classic, American ingenuity at it's finest!! Wash your ass now, haul your ass later! Good stuff!!! __________________ The "Dust Bowl Spl." http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/s...d.php?t=681152

08-02-2010, 08:41 AM	#4
Mr48chev Alliance Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Yakima Valley, WA Posts: 15,639	Re: The Belly Tank 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. __________________ Definition of a "work car". One you have to work on all weekend so you can drive it to work the next week.

08-02-2010, 10:44 AM	#5
flamingokid Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Olathe,Kansas Posts: 1,080	Re: The Belly Tank 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.

08-02-2010, 11:38 AM	#6
Jive-Bomber Alliance Member Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Moraga, Ca Posts: 2,428	Re: The Belly Tank 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! Last edited by Jive-Bomber; 08-02-2010 at 08:09 PM. Reason: Beatty Tanker correction

08-02-2010, 07:26 PM	#8
Okie Pete Alliance Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: willow springs,okla Posts: 1,162	Re: The Belly Tank Bet he was a Farm boy . I have seen pic's where the tanks were used for fuel tanks on the farm. __________________ I would rather be surrounded by men in overalls than spend one evening with any King in the world. Thomas Edison

08-02-2010, 08:45 PM	#10
Mac the Yankee Old School HAMBer Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Winder (pronounced "Wahnduh, Suh"), Georgia Posts: 5,687	Re: The Belly Tank 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. __________________ Looking for: Early Chev 4 parts Hupmobile wire wheels

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