History Austin Gassers picture thread

Ol Rumble Guts



Poole Bros "gasser" running Altered




Schaum's Garage



The Myth at Lions



again same shot LOL

 

Finish off the Austins I have now

Very Early Jegs



Top Cat



At Tri City Dragway



Unknown at 1964 Nationals



Unknown at Fremont

 

posted by swi66 in the vintage thread

 

Unknown car at Tri City Dragway is actually the Locomotion Ford Prefect.Unknown car at Fremont is the Bob Silva/Ron Nunes Austin.

 

Fatboy's Folly is Mickey Hale's car and is painted blue.

 

I always loved the color of Jim Oddy's car so I painted mine a similar color that was called Sapphire Blue.
Jimbo

 

Good stuff you guys are great at filling in the blanks on these cars.

 

one more of

JR Thompson in Arizona

 

KS Tiger Pittman vs Gary Burgin

 

that's not an austin.

 

Impossible dream

 

Fireball Shores



Herrera & Sons




Jr. Thompson




Newell Bros

 

JR Thompson

 

Old shot and New shot, same car

 

An Dan Primo w/ponytail, Owns the wicked Kool black/candy flamed Dennis Portka built 48...

 

Just to be clear.
The Jack Flash Anglia and Jr. Thompson and Son Prefect (four door) are not Austins!
But you knew that.

 

Good eyes hard to tell sometimes. Are Prefects allowed in here

 

They would fit in with the history of Anglia gassers thread.
Prefects are basically Anglia four doors.

Anglia/Prefect
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Anglia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Prefect

Austin of England
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_A40_Devon

 

The Newell brothers got there original car back a few years ago, someone had built a tube chassis for it raced it, an then sat, They bought it an then realized what it was going to take to get it Certifiable, Kinda killed it for them, that one also was in western NY, I have a two door shell, an two 4-doors, That I think one will become a truck soon ) anyone close that has a glass front end or two pm me... Cheer's

 

Here's a website i found with lots of Austin gassers from different regions of the country.
http://austinworks.com/gassers.html

 

Mike Stineberg.

 

Abe's Ark




Bloody Red Baron




Claude Meador





Cottrell & Reichard



Denny Dunkirk




some of them from here:http://austinworks.com/index.html

 

Claudie Meador - Hico, TX

 

Big John



Fetter Bros Greenhorn



Herrera & Sons before chop vs Agitator (see below)




Gene Ciambella built an Austin pickup MGM C&O AUTOMOTIVE to run A/GS the C&O stood for Ciambella and O'Brien.



again




which later became Agitator (below)

Vern Hicks and Lou Galli bought Gene Ciambella's pickup. The Austin pickup inherited the AGITATOR name from their '40 Willys pickup

 

Jr Thompson



James Kaylor



Jeg's Automotive




Jim Ody Early before chop




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again

 

Lemma Brothers and Hence ran this four door Austin Devon with a 392 Chrysler and a Boss Hydro.



Meyer & Cluff



Nail & Holtzman



Ol'Rumble Guts before chop. That a glove hanging off the collector?



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Poole Bros




The Mighty Atlas

 

Austins by the Bunch.....

 

Anyone know anything about this?

 

Since the Austin historians are on a roll, does anyone recognize this one? Olds rear end w/leaf springs & sq tube ladder bars, chrome straight tube axle with long chrome hairpins, unfinished rear wheel openings. Also some floor and door damage from an exploded trans/clutch
Rumors are it came from Colorado (?)

 

A very famous Aussie, Hemi powered A40 gasser in the day ....... Warren Goodall.