Bill Burke meets the Bill Burke bellytank re-creation

After the exhilaration of speeding around on the Bonneville Salt Flats with the Bill Burke bellytank re-creation, Geoff Hacker, who commissioned Ted Kempgens and Tom Bambard of Creative Motion Concepts to build the racer, made two final stops with it. First, a visit with Bill Burke himself, who provided plenty of input and details for Geoff’s build from a continent away. According to Geoff, Bill had a great time reminiscing over this tribute to his earliest work.

Next stop, and the final stop for now, the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsport Museum, where Geoff unloaded the bellytank re-creation for a display alongside two other Bill Burke-built cars – including the Pumpkin Seed – right inside the front doors. So if you’re in the area, make sure to head over to see all three.

Now Geoff has an empty trailer for his trip back to Florida. Or, at least, it won’t be empty for long…

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Four-Links – Alice Ramsey road trip, Royal Enfield road trip, Bedrock Weekend, Bugatti collection

* Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife, was the first woman to drive across the United States from coast to coast in June 1909. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the trip, two groups of women are following Ramsey’s tire tracks with a cross-continental trip of their own in a 1909 Cadillac and a 1915 Model T. Follow along on their blog to catch their progress.

* Another road trip, this one across India and on the back of a Royal Enfield motorcycle. And because roadtripper Gary Richards works for Mack and Volvo, he took plenty of pics of the highly decorated trucks plying the narrow roads in India.

* No, of course I can’t read Danish, but the language of crazy hot rodder is universal, and the Danish hot rodders seem plenty willing to toss their rods around an old gravel pit and listen to some rockabilly, as evidenced by the photos from their recent Bedrock Weekend. (via)

* This is a world-traveling Four-Links. First America, then India, then Denmark, and now to France, where H.A.M.B.ster James D visited the Schlumpf Bugatti collection in Mülhouse. Of course, it’s not just Bugattis, but there’s certainly a lot of that deep blue around the place.

* Finally, Bumbeck over at Clunkbucket found a topic near and dear to our hearts: small cars on a stick. In this case, it’s a Renault Dauphine in Bowling Green, Kentucky, being held up by a cartoonized transmission worker.

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