Sometimes cars get parked not because something mechanical has plagued them but rather because the owner has lost interest. Or because something else is wrong. In the case of this bitchin Nash gasser, it was a paint job that kind of went wrong. To us this thing looks amazing, but when the paint job didn’t turn out the way the owner thought it would there was some serious disappointment and it got parked. For 37 years!

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The paint job on this 1947 Nash gasser is a WILD ’70s design, but the paint job is actually the reason this car was parked in 1971. The owner paid $5,000 for the paint job and the white base coat turned yellow due to the clear coat. This car remained indoors until 2008, when it was sold. It was put back on the track a few years later and is still ripping up the local nostalgia drag racing scene. The car runs with the Straight Axle Mafia, and runs select events with the Southeast Gassers Association.

The old paint is ALL ORIGINAL, and this thing still has its original race car interior from the late ’60s. This car ran at the US Nationals in 1966, and ran in Upstate New York for most of its life. It now lives in the Louisville, Kentucky area. Horsepower was previously a Hilborn injected 327 with a 4 speed. It now has what the owner described as a “$300 small block” with a tunnel ram and two 4’s. What a killer old school gasser with tons of great history and a paint job that gets everyone’s attention.