History TRADITIONAL GASSERS, Gas Class cars and modern TRADITIONAL cars.

The dreaded spindle mount. These wheels are totally wrong for a gas class car!
I DON'T CARE THAT THEY ARE CALLED "GASSER" WHEELS and are marketed as such! Did yo see any wheels like that on the pics of old gassers kids? Noooooooo!
NO SPINDLE MOUNTS please!

 

I can swallow "real" spindle mounts on gas class RACECARS but these just GAG me on any car.

 

yeah, yeah, yeah. I hear you. I concur. But come on, see the forest for the trees.

If you want a REAL steel car that is running a blown, injected chevy and 57 Olds rearend, then I guess you will have to put up with the fake spindle mounts. I don't like them either, I just don't have a photo after they were changed out for some skinny Fenton slotted aluminums.

If the photo is still too repulsive to accept, let me know and I will delete it.

 

The "Toad" was fast, but on this day, not fast enough. HRM Championship Drags at Riverside, 1965. Yes, we caught, and beat the Toad, and 4 other cars to win Street Eliminator, all come from behind handicap wins.

 

Side to the side..May very well be true , but spindle mounts don't bolt on with lug nuts...by their very nature.

 

Please, debate elsewhere, TRADITIONAL GAS CLASS CARS OR MODERN TRADITIONAL STYLE CARS ONLY.
"And, although it doesn't meet the criteria for this thread - 65 cutoff, there were a lot of gassers that ran Halibrand and American 5 spoke spindlemounts just a year or two later." Who cares?
LIMIT THIS TO 1965 STYLE AND OLDER!

My thread, my rules!

 

I think the rule requiring front brakes disappeared in '67, two years after the cut-off for this thread, so no spindle mounts on this thread.
I'll go out on a limb and guess that rule change had a lot to do with Ford Motor Co. and the OGM Mustang.

 

Yes ,Larry ..I realize this. You wouldn't happen to have a picture, installed? Anybody? Just curious.
In my opinion , I think Gary meant to say "No modern, fake spindle mount wheels"

 

Harry Luzader's 32!

 

The 55 was by far the most popular of the tri five Chevies.
The radiused rear was classic!

 

Ollie Briggs vs. the Hall's Speed Shop '56 Ford gasser from Wichita, Kansas

 

The man who would later cause the end of Gasser's as we knew them

 

Well, it's easy to blame George, but really it was time that caused the end. Drag racers always want to go faster, so they built square tube frames, had gutted interiors, late model bodies. They were essentially ( at that point) just slow funny cars. That's when fan interest really died. Building hot rods from 30-49's gars was at a low in the late 60-s and early 70's. You could go buy a muscle car that was faster and way more comfortable.
Despite the gasser guys whining, they were the ones that destroyed the blown gas classes.

 

Anderson, SC’s Gene Cromer ran this ’41 Willys with 427 FE Ford power, then switched to an SOHC 427 Ford for A/Gas. Gene is an ECDT Hall of Fame member.

 

Hubert Platt ran this ’38 Chevy with small-block Chevy power from his brother, Huston Platt. Hubert later became a hugely successful Ford factory backed racer and east coast Ford Drag Clinic Team leader with Randy Payne.

 

Ollie Olsen’s ’40 Willys coupe sported a full-steel, stock Willys front end with 352 CID of stroked 283 Chevy and Hilborn fuel injection. Driver Bob Dwyer shoed the Willys to an A/Gas Nationals class win in ’61 and plenty of Southeastern wins. Olsen built the car and engines in his West Palm Beach, Florida shop. This photo was shot at Ameila Earhart Field, 1960. Ollie leans into the car with input as driver Bob Dwyer readies for another ten-second run at Hialeah, Florida’s Amelia Earhart Field. (Jim Hill photo)

 

on Hassel made a name as one of the original “Ohio Gassers” during his early years growing up in Cleveland. In 1965 Hassel came south to work as Sales Manager for Crane Cams. Naturally he needed a race car to try new parts, and that led him to Ronnie Cox and Joe Garrison, who had a ’48 Anglia. Hassel installed his 327 CID injected Chevy and Borg-Warner four-speed and the team ended up winning NHRA Nationals B/Gas class in 1966 as well as setting B/G records. Hassel & Cox (Garrison left the team earlier) ran often and always successfully at Miami-Hollywood Dragway. Anglia was no-frills, no-nonsense, all-go! Hassel is also an ECDT Hall of Fame member. (Jim Hill photo)