I picked this up yesterday! For the moment it will hang in the shop, but I'd be stoked to see some of your favorite drop tank racers. If you have a few please share. -Chris
Coupla Good Threads... https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/my-belly-tank-racer-build.1076441/ https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/belly-tank.1154896/#post-13137082
This one that Jeff McCain built! https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/belly-tank-build-update.555655/
@sailingadventure's Tank is beyond outstanding...thanks @rockable This is a link to @Bobby Green's Old Crow Tank...and they all look awesome dressed up or down... https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/the-old-crow-lives-bellytank-update.149242/ https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/p-38-bellytank-update-2005.77915/
Another awesome thread by Hamber @Bobby Green ... https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/bellytanks-a-study-in-alternative-uses.119142/
Anyone have dimension info on the P38 tanks? Mine measures just a little over 10' and so I think smaller than most...
...and now I have another reason to obsessively collect parts. Thanks for posting up all the shots typo41, those are something else! Sent from my iPhone using H.A.M.B.
You all probably know this, but while looking through C/L under aviation, there were a few drop tanks listed in the PA, VA, and MD areas.
Another like mine but much better condition: https://spokane.craigslist.org/avo/d/medical-lake-wwii-aviation-drop-tank/6934199416.html Sent from my iPhone using H.A.M.B.
I picked these up from my local scrap hauler back in July of 2018. The guys who bought them from me were going to build a Model B belly tanker with one. They are not sure which engine they are going to put in the second. They have a 59-AB and a V8-60
Anyone have an original copy of this, or know when/where it was published? The first couple of pages are floating around the web, and I’d really like to read the whole thing. Sent from my iPhone using H.A.M.B.
I would like to see it too as i a am about to start my Willys 4 powered one. With all the safety requirements now it would be easier to build that stuff first then make it fit the body, unless you don't intend to race it. JW
It was published in How to Build Hot Rods, Fawcett Book #156, in 1952. I remembered seeing the full text on BellyTanks.com which was run by our own @G. Hacker . That site is now apparently a Japanese lottery page. The article is archived at Archive.org.
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