These tiny metal capsules with wheels are called belly tanks, or lakesters, and they're a major part of hot rod culture. So where does that strange-looking "bodywork" come from? The short answer?

These tiny metal capsules with wheels are called belly tanks, or lakesters, and they're a major part of hot rod culture. So where does that strange-looking 'bodywork' come from? The short answer?

While rummaging around the massive collection, Mike and Danielle found a white, cigar-shaped belly tank car reportedly used in the Mickey Rooney film, "The Big Wheel." After some haggling ...

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.