Tim Masters

Geoffrey Hacker's Recreation of Bill Burke's P-51 Belly Tank of Tampa, Florida. Bill Burke's P-51 Belly Tank is known as the first belly tank Streamliner racer. Bill was racing on the dry lakes long before the war started. While stationed in the South Pacific during WWII he saw potential in using a belly tank as the body for a dry lakes car. Shortly after returning home from the war he built his first Belly Tank Streamliner. In 1946 he raced his brand new car. Burke was the first to run a belly tank in the "Streamliner" class and ran at both El Mirage and Harper Dry Lake. In 2009 Geoffrey Hacker commissioned Creative Motion Concepts to build him a recreation of Bill's groundbreaking belly tank. The recreation made its debut at the 2009 Bonneville Speed Week. Tim and Jon Phillips built the engine for Hacker.

Tim Masters lives in Tampa, Florida, and is recreating the famous Echosonic amplifiers of the 1950s rock and roll era. Tim is planning a trip with his friend Geoff Hacker in April or May 2010 to Cairo Illinois to visit the birthplace of the Echosonic amplifier and document the history of the company and their achievements.