Showing posts with label belly tanker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label belly tanker. Show all posts
Saturday, May 02, 2026

drag racing on an air field

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https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10226759703178952&set=pcb.3088670437992852
Monday, May 26, 2025

Race Shark belly tanker from NYBO Rod Shop at 2023 Romo, a '34 Ardun Coupe

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The air shield over the carbs is a cool piece, it has some airbrushing to name the car, on the other side, and on this side, has mission sym...
Monday, March 17, 2025

Dan is a dude with a dream!

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He dreamed of a Bonneville Belly Tanker since he was in grade school.  Recently, he started collecting the parts. First, found a tank, then ...
Sunday, August 18, 2024

Rømø Motor Festival is just winding up, and Kim sent me a couple photos!

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https://www.facebook.com/romomotorfestival/ https://www.romomotorfestival.dk/
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Tuesday, July 02, 2024

Technical Sergeant Leo Coldstead, of the XXth Bomber Command, standing beside his creation that he named the "Super-Duper Put Put". He built it from spare parts of planes and scrap.

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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=7758759550831477&set=pb.100080966302726.-2207520000
Sunday, June 30, 2024

something I've never seen a belly tank used for... sailboating! an auxiliary gas tank of a P-38, this sailboat is being tested on a canal in Kunming, China

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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=8232187060155388&set=pb.100080966302726.-2207520000
Saturday, November 11, 2023

hell of a good photo technique

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  https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=810634934395444&set=pcb.810635884395349 photo by  https://www.facebook.com/photographieOuistreham
Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Kim went to Rømø and shared these great photos!

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Steffen Traberg Jørgensen Burlap covered bellytanker pulse jet powered
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Friday, June 03, 2022

nice photo

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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10221849732452686&set=a.1617402035143
Tuesday, October 19, 2021

coolest thing I've seen in a while, built by the guys in the stuctures and electrical shop at VU 4, in the early 1950s, from a JD1 wing tank and drone parts.

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Looks like a wing tank from a  JD1 JD1s were versions of the A26 https://www.vpnavy.com/vu3_aircraft.html Utility Squadron 4(VU-4) was stati...
Thursday, August 19, 2021

Ted Frye's record-setting bellytanker with Von Dutch pin stripes

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  Ted Frye of Los Angeles built this P-38 tank in the mid '50s. He was working for Isky Racing Cams in those days. The tank, nicknamed ...
Sunday, May 30, 2021

cool bellytanker

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https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by-part-2.1154030/page-797#post-13805901 not sure if this is El Mir...
Friday, January 15, 2021

possibly the 1st hot rod belly tank in Italy or Corsica in WW2, a year or two before Bill Burke's on the So Cal dry lakes. A ground crewman from the USAAF 1st Fighter Group poses with his makeshift car craftily built from a P-38’s 150-165 gallon external fuel tank

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https://www.facebook.com/TheTruthInColor/posts/1961398213897945 https://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=39829
Saturday, November 07, 2020

last raced in 1950

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http://www.overdrive.fi/forum/threads/vanhoja-valokuvia-ameriikan-raitilta.267070/page-1388#post-3716140 Damn shame. Imagine how damn fun it...
Monday, October 19, 2020

The results of a golden age of junkyard engines, cheap military surplus drop tanks, and no one screwing the country out of a good base layer of salt on Bonneville.

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https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by.428585/page-6304#post-13005307
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Friday, September 11, 2020

I didn't know that helicopters had belly tanks too. During the summer of 1959, this military helicopter made an emergency landing at Deland Field on Echo Lake Road.

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/53003768@N06/15450235900/
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Tuesday, February 18, 2020

How about that, I just came across my photos being used by MotorPunk. Cool. Would have been a laugh to actually hear from them, and get asked to borrow some photos instead. Oh well.

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Annoying that they don't actually back link to the sources, and that they plaster their watermark over my photos... thanks for makin...
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Wednesday, January 29, 2020

huh! Well, if there is a class for "hit or miss" engines at El Mirage or Bonneville, this will probably set a new record!

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https://www.facebook.com/PPGRefinish/photos/a.2846868295351742/2846871912018047/?type=3
Tuesday, October 22, 2019

coincidentally, after featuring a watch yesterday, here is a bellytanker commissioned by a watch company to help sell it's themed watches, and it has humorous nose art too

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 I doubt that this belly tanker was brought to El Mirage, or Bonneville, but I give this company kudos for at least appealing to a d...
Saturday, September 14, 2019

a set of belly tanks made into a boat (thanks Steve!)

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