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" Black hair and trim." Keith recalls Aaron driving a used 5-year old Jaguar. " He was mainly into custom parts, but did also sell stock parts that he chrome plated." Īaron was approximately 55-60 years old when Keith first met him. " He was a lawyer in the earlier years" Keith told Sondre Kvipt of Kustomrama in 2020, " but found the auto industry expanding and got into manufacturing of a large variety of auto parts." Keith recalls Aaron starting out in the 1950s. Keith Christensen bought wheels from Fenton in the 1960s to sell at his shop Gene's Mufflers and he became good friends with its founder Aaron Fenton. The recreation made its debut at the 2009 Bonneville Speed Week.įenton was a major auto parts manufacturing company in Gardena, California. In 2009 Geoffrey Hacker commissioned Creative Motion Concepts to build him a recreation of Bill's groundbreaking belly tank. Burke was the first to run a belly tank in the " Streamliner" class and ran at both El Mirage and Harper Dry Lake. Shortly after returning home from the war he built his first Belly Tank Streamliner. While stationed in the South Pacific during WWII he saw potential in using a belly tank as the body for a dry lakes car. Bill was racing on the dry lakes long before the war started.

Bill Burke's P-51 Belly Tank is known as the first belly tank Streamliner racer. Geoffrey Hacker's Recreation of Bill Burke's P-51 Belly Tank of Tampa, Florida.