A couple of fun, old-school throwback categories are nestled in the wide range of categories that make up HOT ROD Drag Week—Gasser and Hot Rod. With sub-10-second cars present in just about ...

The Southeast Gassers group has a very strict rule package to stay period correct to the heyday of drag racing. The cutoff for the series is 1967, so the idea to build a pre-1967 car and use parts ...

With his two-car racing operation, A. ... Randy Addington’s 1937 Chevy Gassers are huge hit with drag racing fans across the country. Bruce Biegler Writer Feb 13, 2017. See All 21 Photos.

The history of gassers is inextricably linked to the history of organized drag racing. Both were a product of America’s post-World War II fascination with all things automotive, and both grew ...

According to what he could find and the provided documentation, the ‘57 Chevy was turned into a gasser by a mechanic at Nickey Chevrolet in Chicago, the “Original Super Car Headquarters” of ...

The Southeast Gassers series makes nine stops in the southeastern United States where race fans, mostly of the older generation with their grandchildren, come to show off how they used to do it ...

GASSER CLASS: An Aug. 10, 2017, article, "Body Styles: What Is A Gasser and Where Did It Come From" at Rod Authority.com, states drag cars called "gassers," which use gasoline as compared to race ...

When gasser style cars started appearing at drag strips in the late 50s, they were like nothing anyone had ever seen. They were stripped down hot rods with big engines, wild paint jobs and a weird ...

Charlie Brown with his C/GS ’41 Willys coupe, an all-steel car built to honor the glory days of gasser drag racing. Mike Berry The Wichita Eagle ...

Sporting the classic look of an old-fashioned gasser, the car sports an altered wheelbase, a 9-inch Ford rear, and a blown 496 ci (8.1 liters) V8 engine that, linked to an automatic transmission ...

Big John Mazmanian, a legendary racer and car builder prominent during the “gasser wars” era of Southern California drag racing, died July 21 at 80, at a hospital in Mission Viejo, Calif. In the 1960s ...

Pete Gentile's '55 Chevy dragster used to dominate the Detroit drag strips. Now he uses that same car for Sunday ice cream runs with his grandkids.