Gassers with the 4x4 stance...

No, you're right. It was all about weight transfer. I'm building one right now with the intent to be a true gasser. Not street driven at all. Track only. Might even set the engine back a few inches. But if anyone comes up to me and says something bad about my car to my face - look out.

 

I've got an Indian outfit and know a local cop and construction worker. We should take our jacked up Fairlanes up the roller rink and show em all how to Y-M-C-A.

 

Metalflake cowboys! I'll let ya borrow my ROCKASILLY cowboy hat I only wear to the cool shows!

 

Now THAT'S more like it! I had to Un-Snurl my nose for it.

Scooby, you crack me up.

Tingler, so, do you live on a dirt road?

Out of here for a few hours, carry on.

 

This is a fun thread..I like that we can poke a little fun at each other without anyone's nose getting all snurled up...

Just to clarify, I think Tingler's car is cool, I was ranking on the all-show-and-no-go dorks tottering around on tall suspension just for the look of it...

And if we're going to be rhinestone rockasilly village people, I want to be the construction worker ( I already have the outfit.)


In the player...Cro-Mags...Age of Quarrel

 

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OK.. this photo totally changes my mind about putting any exhaust exits in front of the rear wheels on the caddy. Looks good on the fairlane, but not on a caddy.

 

Unclescooby, I think you just called us "gay"...

Uh...er....how about that Bears game Tingler?
Let me know when you want to go lion hunting.

 

I grew up reading my dad's 70's era hotrod and car craft magazines, i've loved the "street freak" thing since I was a little kid. One of my all time favorites, was a cherry red 57 chevy, raised up high, underside was painted white. No front bumper, chrome tube front axle on leafs, big and little cragars. Loved that car.

Have a tube axle up front and sitting high is no more poser than running on 50 yr old tires, and having perfect patina.

 

My guess is that that's not a "gasser" either. The seat is set back too far. I guess it's an "altered". Not that it matters.

From Gasser Madness: "In 1964.........The rules also required the seats to be in the stock location, but they were permitted to be relocated no more that 4” rearward to allow additional legroom."

 

Aniteau's Ace was an A/FX car...

 

your car is ugly and sounds like shit...

 

I'm caucasion but some people call me a honkey, whitey, asshole, the MAN, pinkass, and dufus. I guess there will be differences in all of these cars but really...let's get past the labels and just love each other...from a manly distance while talking about chicks.

I think we've got it all figured out. I just wasn't sure what to call a sky-jacker, axled car, pimpmobile, hi-riser thing from the late 60's. I'm still not, but I knew it wasn't an altered, I understood the gasser classes, and I knew they really had these back in the day. I'm still not sure what this is exactly, but I know what it isn't. The real cause for this post was to get Tingler to admit to the cowboy outfit and plastic guns and to get some guys to post up some cool old pictures. All missions accomplished.

 

I'm building one too--If it were 1960-1965, it'd have run in A or B gas. I plan on driving it to work, and taking my kid to school. And racing it. I'm going to work like hell to get it done and dialed in for the Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green.
Every other car I'll ever build will be a poser though. And I'm okay with that.

It never really occured to me that people are calling those sky-high cars "gassers." I'm calling mine a gasser because I researched what I wanted to do, what look I like, and it turns out I really love the early to mid-'60s gassers. I just sort of dismissed the rest of those guys calling their cars gassers when they aren't styled like real gassers the same way I ignore guys who call them Bel Airs when all they really are is a 210 with some (but not ALL) of the Bel Air trim on them. Or the guys who swear that Model A's came with flat heads, because they keep seeing cars described as "A-V8s." Or the guy who looks at a '32 Chevy and calls it a Deuce, because EVERY car built in 1932 was a Deuce. You know, Thirty Deuce. Or insisting every '55-'57 Chevy 2dr station wagon is a Nomad, and any Model A-thru '34 Ford 2dr sedan is a Vicky. I just don't like correcting people anymore, because they always think they're right no matter what I say, so I just smile, nod and walk to another car.

Tingler, your car kicks ass. Personally, I like its look and style. And chances are, when people are standing around talking about it, they'd describer it as "gasser-styled." Small displacement cars did compete in the gas classes. The classes were broken down by vehicle weight divided by displacement. My 3200lb wagon with the W-motor would fall in A/G or B/G, depending on final displacement of the engine and year (409, Z-11 427, or the actual displacement of 482). Your car would fall farther down the alphabet. Put "H/G" on the quarter, and nobody would give it a second thought. Well, nobody who actually knows what the hell they're looking at.

Nice shoes, y'all. I got mine on sale a year ago, and have been REALLY pleased with them. They go well with most of my clothes, and really look nice with my leather jacket.

I'm gonna go get rusty now.

-Brad

 

Hmmmmmmm, I do in fact remember the really high stret cars around in late 60's and early 70's. I drove a 55 like the one i have now with a 409 and 4 speed pont rear and reversed spindles on the front and rear wells radiused. drove it every day and raced every night and all the guys i knew called it a gasser and it fit in gasser class in okc in B/G in 64 and 65'. I really don't see the problem here my car is, granted a pussy for a big block that only runs in the 11;s on pump gas and is street driven and i went to 6 races last summer so yes i do race it. does that make it a gasser , well today that makes it a bracket car. kinda like a metalflake roof on a primered chevy. never saw that back in the day, that is a today deal and its kool but its still today..............I will enjoy all types of cars and just happen to call mine a gasser .and I defy anyone to tell me its not....................

 

Let me at 'em. Smack wack punch punch - he's down 1, 2 ... 8, 9, 10 ding ding ding.

 

The racers and street machine guys I've talked with told many stories of race inspired "street gassers" that were dangerously high and built with unsafe steering and suspension mods. The higher, the better, until the next trend in hot rodding came along. Like much of hot rodding, guys modify their cars to simulate what racers are doing to their cars for full-on competition. If you're building a car to capture a point in hot rodding, like a full bodied 60's era drag car, you have to chose which you want. A full-on competition race car that can't be driven on the street, or a street-strip car that will look the part of the race-inspired street machine. You'll fall short of beating the 13 to 1 compression, 4:88 geared, no-interior havin', heat and defrostless race cars, but you can terrorize the streets, pick up the kids from school, and not have to ride on a trailer to the strip or a rod and custom show. I sure didn't build my "gasser inspired" 57 Ford the way I did because I thought it would handle better with a straight axle and slicks. I liked a look and created my version. To say it's wrong to make it look faster than it actually is, that's like saying a custom sucks if it isn't low enough, or it isn't cool of you didn't chop the top, or why run a flathead when you could drop in a 350. When I blow through the neighborhood at 2 a.m. with my headers uncorked, I bet no one wakes up and says, " It probably only runs 12's in the quarter!".
Also, bitchin' Fairlane you got there. Looks fun.

 

Let's see that Ford, I like 57's...

cc

 

Absolutely BADASS Tingler!!! I love this pic.
PPoC: I'm digging that red '55 too!
And for all the guys who think these 'jacked up' cars are just to get attention....so are the majority of cars being built. All that fancy, shiny paint with flames or lace or metalfake......all saying "HEY ,Look at ME!" Not a damn thing wrong with it either. I think we all do it to some extent. AHHH....Who cares.
Let's just see some more "gassers"!

Josh

Slayer: Hell Awaits

 

I liked how you said that. In my case im not building a gasser the main reason it would be the difficulty... being as I have no trailer,truck or even a tow bar. I just want a stout street machine to hold the 5 mile circuit I cover on a daily basis. That's all I want.

 

Here you are ProEnfo. I built it 10 years ago and have been beating the hell out of ever since.

 

VERY WELL SAID !!!!!!!!!!!

 

Well i guess im a POSER? Is my car "Uncool" because i drive it on the street? What the fuck dude? This car was built in '65 and see's plenty of track time and cruising. It will run down the road all day long and never get over 180.

Over the last 40 years its had jimmy6's ,straight 6's, sbc, bbc, even a 409 4 speed for a couple years when it was daily trans. and drag raced in Texas in the early 70's then drove it all the fucking way home to Iowa after it had drove there with the jimmy.

At the HAMB drags last year we drove from Joplin to Starbirds in Oklahoma and back. A good two hours driving. Got back to the hotel and changed then headed for the track. It will lay down 14.6 all day long at 90 mph+.

OK am i a uncool poser in a fuckin' boat of a 53 chevy with a very mild 283. Pretty god damn respectable from what everyone tells me.

Oh yeah I call it a "street gasser".

 

there's always somebody that's gonna piss and moan about something. fuck 'em. i like the gassers, street freaks, etc. i think they're cool as hell. i do agree on one point though from the nay sayers.....they ought to be fast.

 

I have question for you good folks, see I'm stuck in the doldrums as far the next step of my 55. I too want a street machine/heavily gasser influenced car. However at this point I'm currently lost as to how to approach this goal.

I have 4spd, 57 olds rear, and two straight axles, (54 Chev truck and MAS) two early 70's 454's and 1970 350. I would like to reproduce a safe but streetable car. But as far as the axle is concerned I do do not know what to do, stock frame or 2x4 stub. Vega box, or stock box. Big block or small block, I'm just not quite sure where to begin. iwould really appraciate any advice.

 

Short Bull,
My advice would be to take it in stages... once you whack that frame off, you can't go back... once you've had a big block, you ain't gonna wanna step down and put a small in it.

So... put the Chevy axle under the stock front frame with a SBC in it... drive it around, learn a little... and then see if ya wanna cut the front off and stub it.

I'm kinda doing the same with my '55... I WAS going to go balls out and build it the way I want my '55 to look... but instead, I've chosen to "restore" it back to the way it raced in the late 60's. This is a car that was built into a street racer in '62... and raced 'till '72 and owned by the same guy until 2002... once I strip that 1968 paint job off... it's gone forever. So, I'm gonna take the body off, paint the frame, get the rear suspension squared away... new SBC, tunnel ram, 4 speed... and RUN IT!
The black, panel, lace paint job and BBC can come later...
Here it is as of a week ago... since then I have gotten rid of the 14" mags on the front and put the 15 x 6"ers that were on it way back when back on it, pulled the roll bar, the doors and the rear end out... made a seat mount for the van bucket... doped out the rear ladder bars and floaters and the main hoop x member... and cleaned it up a bit more... the yellow paint will stay...
Sam.

 

Poser I think not I love that car. The stance is just right. Did you notice at the drags the drool down the side? yeah sorry that was me. In the early years of the class alot of the gas class cars were daily driven, dual purpose cars. Thier first duty was daily driver, and all out performance was secondary...So I'd have to say your boat of a 53 is the real deal.

 

hahahahaha...... I love this discussion

How bout this one. Does anybody think it looks cool?????

 

NO RULES!

Jim

 

Poser? Shit, thats a gasser if there ever was one, picture looks like it coulda been taken in the late fifties. Love it man.