So why build a Bellytank? Well go back to 1998, a friend of a friend has an original aluminum tank to sell with a pile of ford flathead parts, well you can’t turn that down, it was just to cool. After that the tank sought refuge in the barn rafters until 2007. Since then it has been 5 steady years of building that was wrapped up with a couple of months of long hours to get ready for speed week.