Awesome Belly Tank.

[tauruck]

Saw this on FB!!!!!. Steve Jenkins posted.
Sorry if it's been posted before but I think it's awesome.

[kiwi belly tank]

A real piece of history there, Tom Beatty's tank. I believe that pic was taken when Ralph Whitworth owned it & I know he paid 700K for it back then & lost his shorts on it when he went bankrupt.
  Sid.
https://www.google.com/search?q=tom+beatty+belly+tank&rlz=1C1OPRB_enUS639US639&oq=tom+beatty+bell&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0.16154j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

[Jack Gifford]

Thanks for the links. I'd never seen inside Beatty's tank- looks like it was one of the earliest to use a real frame.

[Dr Goggles]

Thanks for the links. I'd never seen inside Beatty's tank- looks like it was one of the earliest to use a real frame.

Ha,!

Yep, it always makes me wonder.....

[tauruck]

Thanks Sid.
I love this car.

[Seldom Seen Slim]

$700K?  WTF?  Car is made of unobtanium, obviously, heavily patina-ed to look funky -- right?

[bearingburner]

700K goes to prove" all the fools in the world aren't dead yet'. Would have sold mine for 10% of that price.

[tauruck]

What airplane can you buy for $700,000?.
Bearingburner, that's a classic statement.

[floydjer]

That makes $36.5 million for a replica 250 GTO seem like a good deal.

[kiwi belly tank]

Ralph was putting together the Flying A Garage Museum when the 2008 market crash went down & he lost the lot. It was an amazing place with a collection of the most influential race cars & rods in US history.
  Sid.
 https://www.google.com/search?q=flying+a+garage+winnemucca&rlz=1C1OPRB_enUS639US639&oq=flying+A+garage&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l2.13473j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
https://www.google.com/search?q=flying+a+garage+winnemucca&rlz=1C1OPRB_enUS639US639&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwizq6Dp8L_TAhVJ5oMKHdzvCHAQ_AUICSgC&biw=1280&bih=629#imgrc=_

[sofadriver]

I always wonder what it would take to get a tank this old (or, say, Monroe's Indian) through tech / impound these days. Could it even be done?

[desotoman]

I always wonder what it would take to get a tank this old (or, say, Monroe's Indian) through tech / impound these days. Could it even be done?

Not and keep it original. I am talking Beatty's Tank.

More to come, but it will take me awhile to write it.

I was told it sold for $464,000 then to Ford Museum for around $200,000.

Tom G.

[4-barrel Mike]

700k???  Sure wish I had bought: http://www.landracing.com/forum/index.php/topic,9501.0.html

Mike

[tauruck]

I'm building a liner and space is at a premium.
The belly tank must have all the same components
by design/rules etc.
Where and how do these guys fit everything?.
Big respect to anyone building a tank.

[kiwi belly tank]

Building a tank is kinda like building a ship in a bottle, you start out with the constraints of a container & it's curved everywhere plus you have to put 10lb's of $hit in that 5lb bag. I too have a healthy respect for other's who have gone there.
  Sid.