History More "Gassers" now than there ever were?

all us geezers participated in racing G***ers in the old days if we couldn't get a fueler together--as for wally parks oppresive dictator or benevolent tyrant---depends on where you lived--if you think the big fuel shows ,g***er match races and huge funny car fields took place under wally's sanctioning you need to go read some old DRAG NEWS---restorers **** whether it's hot rods ,vettes, or G***ers---they are like vegetarians they do it but they can't be happy if they can't make you do it

 

[QUOTE ...............Hence they created a Gas Coupe and Sedan cl***, which was quickly shortened to Gas Cl***, and the cars were G***ers. In 1955 NHRA created a Street Division, which included Gas Coupe and Sedan, which was for a dual purpose street driven cars with either a coupe or sedan body that was produced by an automobile manufacturer.
That was the beginning, as stated by Larry Davis, not me. Please don't kill the messenger.
I just want to run my 33 Willys and have fun!!!!, and yes, I like to call it a G***er.[/QUOTE]

So, a G***er is a racecar (or dual purpose RACE/street car) that ran in the NHRA Gas cl*** that met a strick set of rules. I'd have to say there were more g***ers in the day there were g***er cl***es than there are now, by that definition.

It does sort of puzzle me that people use a term that has a specific meaning in a generic catchall way that might not have anything to do with the original concept of the term.

No, I'm not saying you have to build anything to anyone elses specs (unless you're building to a specific definition), but don't call it something it's not. If there are no rules or definitions that go with a word, then you might as well call a cow a horse or a cat a dog.

And there were even rules for matchracing, no matter how loose they were or you would have had a bunch of dragsters showing up for "run what you brung".

Just another opinion, and you know what they're worth.

 

Why doesn't this cl*** exist now?

 

I really don't care what you do, run it on alcohol and call it a g***er that is what the modern nostalgia g***ers do.

I said to define g***ers because I wanted to know what the OP considered a g***er before I could make an educated guess. I am going to go out on a limb here and say that what he is calling a g***er is just a mud bogger with slicks. Judging by your answer I am going to guess it is the same to you as well.

In the era that this site caters to if you go by the NHRA and not outlaw or match racing a g***er is an entirely different animal than what the majority calls a traditional g***er. I think it is good that oe define his question instead of leave it all willy nilly anything goes. How can he get an accurate guestimation if he has no criteria.

 

I'm far from an expert on this but the NHRA seemed to have a lot overlap on the various cl***es.To the casual fan a non supercharged G***er looked a lot like Modified production .Except the M/P were newer body styles.

 

We could debate this until the cows come home, until the OP clarifies what he considers to be a "g***er" there is no way to answer his question.

 

I vote who cares.

it is OK to cancel this thread now, I have replied.

 

****** does anything you said relate to my post---I take it you are not a mud-bogger or perhaps just in bogger denial--Fueler in the vernacular of the day meant rail job on nitro usally with a blower--gas coupes and sedans and fuel coupes and sedans is left over scta lingo---- i'm ok are you ok---word meanings evolve lighten up and take you're second jump

 

Geeeezzzzz, some of us got up this morning all pissy?????????????????

What I remember was that back in the day (50's and 60's) stock meant stock. Bone stock. No cams, not headers, no nothing. You could not even take off the air cleaner or the mufflers. You put a cam in it or headers on it...you were in a gas cl***. There were almost as many gas cl***es as there were stock cl***es. If you swapped engines in a car that did not come with that engine as an option, you were in altered cl***. I had a 55 Ford with a 430 MEL in it and had to run A altered. Later they let me run in A gas when they figured out a MEL was a Ford.

 

I dunno do you own a stump jumper? I think that the way you talk you may be more comfortable on another site, some of us do care about doing it the old way with old technology. You seem to think that if we do things the way that things were done we are pretty blasé.

By the way there were cars that ran on Alcohol during the nitro ban they ran in fuel ranks not gas cl***es.

 

Ahhh ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!

Good one Mutt!

 

I don;t keep up with NHRA stuff now but I don't think there is a g***er cl*** in NHRA racing now. There is in their Heritage Series, but it's just a name for an index cl***.

I THINK most of the lower cl***es got the ax when Modified Eliminator got axed (81/82??).

http://www.compe***ionplus.com/08_19_2004/sportsmen_fight.html

The blown cars were gone before that--1975 according to Montogomery. Died from lack of interest.

 

Yep! GM built 18,302 of those puppies in '69 and there's probably 3 times that many roaming the streets. Mine was an original which included the 15" tire inflation sticker on the glove box door..

 

sometimes i wonder if some of you guys have any better things to do than argue on the internet all day.

 

I'm at work, that's my excuse.

 

It's a g***er any way you slice it...

 

Absolutely not!

At least not durring the week.

But on the weekends, well that's my time to let loose, enjoy a beverage and the car. (not necessarilly in that order)

 

look at the 64-65 nhra rule book,if your car fits into those guildelines than call your car a "g***er style " this whole thng is pretty dumb....

 

There's a lot more lowered cars rolling around on wide white's these days too.

 

Man! My screen name is starting to feel like a tribal arm band tattoo right now...

 

better than a tramp stamp though..

 

The truth is these days. If it has a striaght axel its called a g***er.

 

Not in "my world".

 

Wow this thread went off the tracks! can someone post the 64-65 NHRA guidelines? Then we can call it a day? Lets see the facts boys I voted BTW! I think there were more back in the day and then they were later changed back to street rods of different eras.
J

 

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=334715

 

There were definitely way more g***ers back in the period than there are now, even if you add up all the street and strip g***ers today! Rarely see a "g***er" style car at the drags around my area, and at most car shows I'm not seeing more than a few attending.
Too many? Seems that there are those who are tired of seeing a few g***er style vehicles and they complain. I don't see people complaining about too many traditional fenderless coupes or roadsters, or any number of other traditionally styled cars. I also don't see people telling those who build a fenderless roadster in the old school way that it's not a real fenderless roadster unless it was built in the 50's or 60's. But build a g***er today and the g***er police come out and tell you it's not a g***er because it never raced in the gas cl*** in the 50's and 60's.
I'm tired of seeing a lot of cars that there's just too many of, but I applaud those who are out building and driving their cars, and not sitting on the computer *****ing.

 

now they are altereds

 

Seems like the latest craze is the "G***er LOOK" for a streetable machine. Maybe the initial question or vote should should have been for a TRUE STRIP COMPE***ION ONLY vehicle. Back in 1962 I built and raced a B/G 54 Chevy. (look at my album) It was a g***er towed behind a 52 Ford 3/4 ton pickup with a tow bar.Going back to that criteria, I would say we had more back then. You might consider we did not have the aray of cl***es or bracket racing back then either. Just my 2 cents. Maybe it was a quarters worth.

 

I feel to many street freaks are called g***ers. More of a circus act then function for the track.

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