Build of the month at Tardel Ranch

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So cool!!!

 

Wouldn't that be nice to have in the cellar...any history on it?

 

Those bellytankers are sure cool, would love to build something like it some day

 

The Tardel news letter is my favorite piece of email.

 

cool project, and I just signed up for the newsletter.
Thanks

 

Nice, except they are not "tankers". Those would be trucks and ships that haul bulk products. They are bellyTANKS. This has been a point of discussion as of late in the LSR community. FWIW

 

Gota love the"Tank's" !!!

 

I signed up when I got the book from him,what a ton of information in that book.

 

Everytime I look at the internal layout on the belly tankers I can't help but thinking about the consequenses of a mishap at top speed. It was certainly a different brand of bravery.

That said, it's flippin' sweet.

I think the modern day equivalent to the land-speed guys back then are the guys that strap on the squirrel suits and risk so much to push the envelop a little farther. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWfph3iNC-k

 

Take a look at John Cobbs Railton Special, he was sitting on a lawn chair with no structure at all around him at 400 MPH. Those squirrel suit guys aren't even gearheads

 

Not gearheads but they have big ones

 

awesome!

 

They all have big cajones,but a speed record in a tank looks like the toughest feat of all.

 

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Jive-Bomber Jay -

Vern is one of my heroes! ... Cool Tank! ... Thanks for sharing!

FYI ... There's more info (& pics) on this tank in CRAP's "Can anyone ID this belly tanker" thread from July of 2010.

 

2x what Tman said.
If you have to include an "r", call them Lakesters.

 

Tankers and slingshot dragsters are just about as cool as it gets.

How big were the guys that typically drove these cars? (Not talking nut size...or if they are were brass, etc). What a wild ride...NASA minus the altitude.

 

How tall is the driver?

 

Awesome, picked my heart rate right up!! ~sololobo~

 

Man, you just know Keith is gonna kick some ass on that thing!

 

Id kill to take a ride in one of those things... The girlfriend is eye rolling at me right now as I add building and driving a salt flat racer to the bucket list.

 

Me too but think they'd have a time stuffing my 300lbs into that thing! What a rush though!

 

Signed up

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Signed up. Great looking ride.

 

Very inspiring...kind of adds a little justification to my thought of building a traditional belly tank out of the one I got.

 

Speechless.

 

Tardel's know how to build 'em right!....That's for sure!

 

pant pant pant

 

Love the work.

I hear you, but the funny thing is all the old literature where they were called "tankers"... so I guess if you are a traditional hot rodder they are "tankers", if Bonneville guy "tanks", or.....

I think we are going to start putting of couple of the p-38 tanks together that I have for sale. Been hanging in the rafters too long.
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