Bruce Meyer: The belly tank was a natural because it was an extra fuel tank attached to the bottom of a P-38 fighter plane. So it was already proven to to be aerodynamic. So it was the perfect ...
Over the years, Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz -- the hosts of "American Pickers" -- came across everything from a 1922 Ace Sporting Solo motorcycle to Aerosmith's first touring van. The History ...
Bruce Meyer: The belly tank was a natural because it was an extra fuel tank attached to the bottom of a P-38 fighter plane. So it was already proven to to be aerodynamic. So it was the perfect ...
Twenty dollars. That’s what a 315-­gallon auxiliary fuel “belly tank” for a World War II P-38 Lightning fighter plane cost in the late Forties at a military-­surplus store in California.