This 1955 Chevy Gasser Is No Recreation It Is The Real McCoy And We Can Personally Vouch For It


This 1955 Chevy Gasser Is No Recreation It Is The Real McCoy And We Can Personally Vouch For It

I may not be so good at remembering the names of my wife and kids but man I can’t forget race cars, especially cool ones and that is the reason I can personally vouch for what the seller of this car is saying. This was a Massachusetts based car for many, many years most recently run at New England Dragway by a guy named Phil McCarthy. I announced this car racing down the strip at NED a hundred times or more.

Phil parted ways with the machine and now it is for sale in Texas where the current owner never had time to race it and has decided to send it along to the next owner. The shoebox is a veritable time machine. The interior is crude as hell, the firewall dog house that was added when the motor was moved back 25% is also not of Jesse James quality. There’s a transverse leaf spring and beam axle up front, and there is a 454 wearing a set of worked up 427 heads underneath the tilting ‘glass nose. The slot mags are freaking awesome and the patina on the paint and lettering was not gently added by some artist, it was hard worn through the years.

Under the car is more of the same with the basic suspension and hammered looks of a 60 year old hunk of steel that has lived some hard days over the course of six decades. We love this car for a bunch of different reasons than we loved the Bone Shaker yesterday. The Bone Shaker was a modern build on a historic theme. This is the historic theme that it was built on. This is the type of car guys are copying today and we think it is very rare to get one in the race shape it has been in for years. Yes, you will see that a couple bars were added to the ‘cage and if you think that is a bad idea, trust me…you are wrong. This car is BangShifty to the core and I almost fell out of my chair when I saw it for sale on eBay the other day. I thought it was was lost to the vapors of history forever. These days it seems nothing actually is anymore.

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