The Wing Tank was narrow at the bottom with tips that projected up and out at the top of the tank. While it was of small capacity and tough to fill because of the petite cap, it was instantly popular in the custom motorcycle circles.
The real kicker is, this was back in '70, decades before a number of fresh cycle customizers of today were even born. Little wonder that several TV shows of late, which document the latest custom chopper builds, fail to recognize their latest innovation, a version of the AEE Choppers Wing Tank, was not only short on new innovation, it was more of a reintroduction of a classic style, and a pretty much useless fuel tank. After all, it did not hold much gas, but no one ever accused Tom McMullen of ever having taken his radical Project Shovelhead on a long ride that would have required numerous fuel stops.
I guess it will be my task to help keep the records straight and point out the true style innovators when something brand new to '08, really might have been designed, built, and installed onto a radical bike decades before.
This bike, Project Shovelhead, was so monumental to Tom McMullen that he was in the process of searching for its current owner before his untimely death in a plane crash. - Later, Steve