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Airhead fuel tank identification
- Thread starter bigvic54
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It's hard to get a feel for the shape of the tank...almost needs more light on it and maybe taken a bit further back to get a sense of things. Here's where I go for BMW tanks:
http://www.beemergarage.com/Tanks.html
However, I looked through the pictures and didn't see anything that jumped out at me. Your tank has an offset fill hole on the right side. Hard to find anything with that configuration.
http://www.beemergarage.com/Tanks.html
However, I looked through the pictures and didn't see anything that jumped out at me. Your tank has an offset fill hole on the right side. Hard to find anything with that configuration.
stevenrankin
Active member
Aftermarket
Looking at the tank I very much doubt it is any kind of stock tank. Back in the day there were a small number of companies making larger tanks for BMW bikes aftermarket. Heinrik is one name. Sorry, I don't recall the names of the others. St.
Looking at the tank I very much doubt it is any kind of stock tank. Back in the day there were a small number of companies making larger tanks for BMW bikes aftermarket. Heinrik is one name. Sorry, I don't recall the names of the others. St.
Still hoping to see additional pictures to get a sense of the exterior shape. Definitely an aftermarket tank. Note the cutouts that provided clearance to the carbs since it hung so low. Information I'm seeing is that this is from the early 1970s and might have been called "Wanderer".
My source for this information is John Lacko who owns beemergarage.com...a valuable source for BMW material, especially things before 1970. He found these pictures on his computer. The blue tank shows the tank installed. The other picture shows the tag that is on a tank showing the name and source.
Thank you. That's exactly what I was looking for.
Does anyone have an idea of its value?
Whatever someone wants to pay for it?
It's a bit of Airhead lore from the 1970s. Not sure what I would do with 8 gallons of gas...my rear end gets tired quickly and I need to target the bathroom more and more!!
