Well being you were to young to have raced gas class and prozac was invented for you younger guys.To know how the drags were you had to be there.
WHOOOOOOOOOOOO! EXCUSE ME MR. GASSER! What's wrong with people honoring the old days of drag racing by building a tribute car? No I wasn't there. But what if the guy that I bought it from raced it then? At Lions, and San Fernando? What if he never won anything? What if he just did it for the fun? What if he broke in it the '70's? What if he put it in his garage to fix later? What if he got married, had kids, life got in the way? And what if 30 or so years later I happened to find it, buy it, drag it out, fix it and drive it? Would it be a Gasser then? Then what's the difference? Same old cars? Built the same old way?
Guess you did not read the post awile back. I said if it was a gasser back then ,then it is a gasser. But if it was built today it is a clone.
I read it but your being too closed minded. After I get mine back together, because ( I ) blew it up this time, it's going back to the track. I may not win either but I'm gonna have fun doing it. In my GASSER ! And anybody who builds one is a Gasser too.
Obviously a original gasser or any drag car from the 60's has to be recognized for where it has been and seen, battling it out on dragstips of a lost era for years at long closed strips. BUT, a newly built gasser done correctly has my respect as a cool car and "gasser". Sure it wasn't there but hey no one's inventing a time machine any time soon. Someone has to continue history. I dont like using the terms clone, replica or tribute myself. It's like the "hot rod" "rat rod" title debate, it all depends on the individual car and how well it was done rather than labeling an entire group. We still build a '32 and call it a hot rod... -Dean
I am building a 40 PU to run D/GAS 10.60 class and if I cant run the # I WILL run the hot rod class which is a dial your own time, Yes bracket racing, I don't care, I WILL HAVE FUN!!!!!!! thats what I can afford. and I think most guys quit because gas classes were eliminated and rolled into comp eliminator and only the big buck, high sponcered guys could compete. bracket racing saved a lot of of the track for awhile, to bad so many are gone now Ron....
It's also the reason many guys kept racing. Bracket racing is better than no racing. To each his own, we're having more fun than you are.
If that Groucho guy don't give you a swift kick in the ass, it may be years (AGAIN) before the fucking thing runs. Originally, the "gas" classes (Gassers)were basically street cars, gasoline fueled.......BUT, you may have to call your 55 a "Steamer" as THAT may be the fuel by the time it runs again. Fuck, I crack my self up!
The Weld Draglites on the back are worse than 70's Super Tricks or Centerlines on the front, but the car is listed as going 9's which at that point its his car and it moves while pulling the wheels. One less guy bidding against you on Magnesium wheels is a plus in my book but even a cheap set of slots or steelies would be more fitting for a Gasser. I have to agree with Ford Freak though, the first time I went to Thompson I was very disappointed. I thought I was going to really see vintage drag cars or at least vintage styled cars run which between the Ads for the meet and looking up the EGC rules sounded awesome....There were some real deal and nice clone cars on hand, most of which are just on display or limped though the traps. You find the rules are not exactly the last word. many are your average modern bracket car, with less electronics, no different than any other night at most tracks for all the hype about it. All you need is a 5-7 Chevy, Willys, Anglia or Austin body and you're in. It seems to be getting better every year but you still see pastel monochromatic, Pro Streeters with fruity graphics and Aero scoops running as Gassers. The common excuse is that once upon a time it "was"a Gas car, was is the word but what is it now?
Wheels are VERY important in a car's appearance or "look". We've all seen some otherwise bad ass cars with some cheese-dick wheels on em. Although allowed, the car doesn't look good with "Tricks" or "Welds". They may have just come in as Gasser style cars were going out, providing a "grey" area, but it don't make it right. There's just too many cooler wheels to put on that car to justify ANY argument. Yeah, I know it's HIS car. But, we are entitled to OUR opinions.. I dig the car. It's merely 20 lugnuts away from greatness!
You know I agree with that statement... I like different and without different opinions good or bad you get more cars that look the same. I'm just looking at the silver lining, that being the car hanging the wheels beating a Chevy and running 9s. I give more to a car that performs, but a good set of wheels and some hand lettering instead of the stickers would be cool. I still can't digest the bolt on twelve spokes on a Gasser which for most of the timeline were not allowed to have real spokes in the first place but thats me.
Algon, Groucho, I couldn't agree with you guys more on the wheels on the Ford. We keep grinding him to put some chrome steelies on the back and 5 spokes on the front just like his Dad had when he ran it in the late 60's-early 70's. We're getting closer to him actually doing it. They actually still have the original rear wheels but the lug holes are damaged. If it were mine I'd put the same style wheels on that it had originally.
Bronxmopars! Thanks for the pics! As much as I like the Willys, Anglias, etc.... The different body styles are really kool!! Especially the MoPars! That red '63 Polara is VERY KOOL!!! moo Marty
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