History More "Gassers" now than there ever were?

Once again people chime in who have no idea what a "G***er" is, or they want to deny history and make up their own rules. The truth is a "G***er" was a car built to run in a specific race cl*** to a set of rules as determined by NHRA and IHRA mainly. These ranged from the ever popular straight axle Blown Hemi Willy's like Stone Woods and Cook, to the Lowly VW's that dominated I/Gas. The rules changed over the years from conception of the cl*** when the cars had to carry full interiors and street equipment including mufflers to the demise of the cl*** when they had become all out race cars without all the street equipment, so don't look for just the 64-65 rulebook, because they existed before that and many years after.
To answer the question, there were far more "G***ers" back in the hey day then there are today. Hell I can remember one meet at OCIR where there were so many H and I gas VW's that it ran well past midnight just to get eliminations done.

Today there are far more "G***er Look A Likes" that roam the street, but very few are built to the rules of the G***er cl*** so they are just poseurs - many are very cool, but they aren't true g***ers, and i'm sorry if that upsets your sensibilities.

 

Thats been done DOZENS of times on here, in this thread for one, and its NEVER made a hill of beans of difference to this ******** song and dance one way or the other. The guys on one side of it already know them by heart, and the guys on the other side dont want to know them...

 

Wild some of you guys beat these topics to death.. Now I enjoy reading them. I love g***ers and I am building one..Im build it the way I want MY g***er to look.

 

So let's see now (and this is not directed towards anybody so don't anybody get their *****s in a ****in' bind).......

If someone owns a "real g***er" from back in the day and there is someone that did their damdest to build one that is close to the "real" thing, they don't count!

Now let's keep in mind that this "real g***er" from back in the day is being raced today so it has all the necessary updates mandated to conform to the rules.

Hummm..... Seems kinda hypocritical to say that one which is a modern rendition of a g***er isn't one but one that has had many alterations is.

 

I think I'm going to start collecting tri five chevy front ends. Pretty sure there will be a market for them in ten years lol

 

Yea, you might keep an eye out for all the swingarm sections from the Harleys that have been hardtailed too!

Of course stock frame replacement parts might be the niche to start planning a business around.

 

I grew up in the '60s in Ohio. Man, you could not ride by a garage with an open garage door without seeing some kind of g***er in there. I know Ohio was a hotbed of g***er activity, but they were so prevalent then it is hard to believe more are around now. Cl*** eliminations would extend late into the night at local drag strips.

 

In my Opinion, for what ever that's worth, and if someone doesn't like they can have their money back, if a car was built in 1962 or 2012 to the basic rules when there really was a G***er cl***, then it's a g***er. Pretty simple for me. But if it is some pig in a poke that isn't even close to being what a g***er was, I don't care when it was built (then or now), at that point it's just a modified car or a street freak

 

Thanks Larry! Hopefully people will read!

Nicely said man!
J

 

I love this thread and I love my "HOT ROD" not a street rod (pre-48')

I'm still about the more then!

I know they filled the staging lanes up even tho I wasnt even alive but ive read alot and talked to my ol' man and buddies dads/uncles etc. and have a good idea that there were way more then... then now?

 

Thats a tough answer ,but eiter way there is nothing like the g***er at***ude whether its then or now. I have to say though i wish there were more traditional style g***ers

 

Make that 2 votes

 

Those things don't look stable enough for the street. Or are they?

 

****** ---i don't think you are concerned about my comfort zone ---i think you just want to force everyone into yours ---cars are for fun and can be built in the "spirit of an era" not to the letter of an old rule book or the memory of your time at your strip----if that is not true why did that 55 ford with the "out era" Boss motor get to race--love that car ---now get out your BIGFOOT tapes and indulge your fetish------at the risk of being equally boorish I believe you meant p***e` not blase`--

 

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If you are not interested in talking about either, go away. Not only have there been a lot of OT posts that I've had to delete lately, but there are also a lot of non-traditional posts. There are other message boards for that stuff.... This is not a cute and sweet community with lots of comp***ion for all things "street rod" - this board was built to be focused on the traditional and thats how it will stay... Please be conscious of that



I think that you believe that to try and uphold tradition as it was is to be a restorer, maybe in a sense it is. Although most of us are not restoring old original cars.



Some of us try to adhere to a mind set that if it is not pre '64 it does not fit into the traditional role. The NHRA rules (I know that you must have been Wallys friend ) put the style of car that some call traditional "g***er" right into the Altered ranks, prior to the '65 rule change. Now one could have had a Willys with a straight axle sitting stock and it would have set pretty high, they sat high from the factory, but one could not really have a '56 Chebby with a straight axle sitting high enough to clear a stump or drive in the ditch and see eye to eye with your hot rod prius on the road and call it a g***er other than it ran on gas.



I am sorry if your version of history does not agree with history. I wish it did, then I could appologize to you and all would be just as sweet as you like it but the truth of the matter is that history is history.



I am not going to ask you to find the door, I think you probably have something of value to ad here and it certainly isn't my place to do so, but it sure seems like we are just a little to casper milk toast for you. Maybe you should start a mirror site and called the HASH, Preaching the anit-gospel of traditional rods and customs to wannabes around the world, just the way we wish it had been.

By the way you do own a stump jumper don't ya, lets call it an altered like it is and everyone will think that you are one of the really cool guys.

 

Yep, too many....Glad mine is an ALTERED!!!! LOL

 

This thread, like most threads that have the word "g***er" in the ***le is like a m***ive spinning vortex of ********. You promise yourself your done with it, and you aren't going to bother posting on it anymore, but you come back and check, just stick your toe in, and WHAM! the sheer m*** of rapidly spinning ******** just ****s you right in. If we leave these *****s alone, they will die a slow, quiet death, just like Pro-Street did, and move on to the next bandwagon. Arguing with them really gives them more credibility than they deserve. The are uneducated idiots who have co-opted a word without having any clue what it means, and they have no interest in learning. Its the latest flavour of the week, so it will naturally attract HORDES of clueless buffoons. Unfortunately, in the process, the word g***er has been corrupted beyond any possibility of redemption, and a large part of our drag racing heritage is so **** splattered, it has become unrecognizable. Theres a lesson in here, and it has to do with the price of m*** appeal.

 

Oh I dunno, I kind of like drama queens, I really didn't expect them to crawl out of the woodwork when I asked the OP to clarify what he wanted to know and I would still like to find out, but I guess unlike us he had enough sense to bail.

I do know that they used to race them 4 abreast at the Great Lakes Dragaway way back when so I am going to guess there must have been a bunch of 'em. But that was before the day of the "real g***ers" so maybe that doesn't count.

 

So, you guys are saying that there were no streetable "G***ers" back in the day?

 

No, saying that /G was a cl*** for racecars, so a g***er was a dedicated racecar OR a dual purpose street/race car (says so right in the rule book). But it was car that spent time on the dragstrp.

 

Probably a lot more 5000lb four door and station wagons with straight axles and 1980s smog motors than there were in the 60s.

 

With 4500 miles on mine this year so far, I think mine is plenty stable for the street! And it can still make a run down the strip if I get the urge!

 

I think that a first gen T-Bird would be *****in' sitting high. Never seen one though. Anyone have pictures?

 

I love your choice of words...

"spinning vortex of ********" & "**** splattered" LMAO!

 

Just Google "thunderbird g***er" and you'll get tons of pics:
http://www.google.com/search?q=thun...XKK9SPyAGxooGACQ&ved=0CB4QsAQ&biw=979&bih=482

 

There certainly are... but to me a fibergl*** 32 Roadster "street" rod is not really a 32 Ford. And a 72 Chevelle with a straight axle aint a g***er. Anything newer than 65ish that has a nice interior, and a stock crate motor with a cam and headers is not a g***er. Very few cars people label as g***ers are
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What can I say? I'm a "visual" person...

 

Sorta like Mr. Lahey, Trrailer Park Supervisor.

 

IIIEEE!! Not sure I like THAT comparision...

 

Those are some killer birds! Funny thing is that I hate those cars in their stock form. Make them into a " G***er" and they are bad ***!!!!!!!!