This posting is at the last minute, but those of you in SoCal who have nothing to do on a Saturday morning now have something awesome to do on August 2, 2014.
A Gathering of Gassers is set for Saturday morning at the Automobile Driving Museum, just south of the LA Airport and from what we hear they are expecting over sixty-eight gassers, coupes, sedans, pick ups and whatever straight axle cars. According to the organizer, the Museum will be closing off the street in front to line them up.
Gassers have been around drag racing since the beginning and they were mostly raced on gas, blown or injected or some with a tunnel ram and carbs, but the idea was always to stuff the biggest engine in the front with fender well headers.
Gassers were the playground of racers like Ohio George Montgomery, Stone Woods & Cook and Big John Mazmanian and so many more across the USA. As old 30’s, 40’s and 50’s Anglia, Willys and Austin gassers fell out of favor for more aerodynamic body styles, the classic look of a nose-high straight axle racecar became less and less competitive.
There’s lots of us still loving the gasser look and you’ll find dozens of them, recreations, restorations and tributes at any dragstrip today not only at nostalgia races and car show, but sometimes on the street.
So this might be a last minute warning, but we’ll be down at the Automobile Driving Museum, and it’s a pretty cool place to explore, even if they weren’t showing off a great collection of Gassers on a Saturday morning.
The Museum is located at 610 Lairport Street in El Segundo CA 90245 and you can see more about the place at www.automobiledrivingmuseum.org
NOT a gas class car and will never be. Most of the so called “gassers” running around now aren’t either.
Sorry the front part got cut off while posting. It should read that Corvair is not a gas class car.
Please, Claymore, tell me why that Corvair is not a gasser.
Guessing you are not old enough or never went to the strip and actually watched real gas class cars or you would know.
It’s simple note I said “Gas Class” which mean a REAL gas class car that conforms to the drag racing rules not a “So Called” car raised in the front that passes for a “gasser” to the new people.
Go online and look in the NHRA rule books for any year the see what it takes to be a REAL “gas class” car and this corvair does not even come close.
Are you talking what the Gas classes that are today in NHRA? Well, then it’s not one of those. DUH! Those cars run on an index. In fact the NHRA doesn’t even have a “Gasser” class today like it did in the 50’s and 60’s. They run in the Hot Rod class in the NHRA Heritage Series. See that H/R on the windshield???
Btw, I’m 50 years-old and I HAVE been to gasser races
. Check this out, it’ll clear up your confusion.
http://www.nostalgiagassers.com/rules/
or these…
http://www.geezergassers.com/rules.php
http://eastcoastgassers.com/NG-rules.shtml
http://www.gassermadness.us/Gas_Classes/index.htm
All that just to agree it is not a gas class car? You are confusing REAL gas class cars and the new “stuff” they call gassers.
That sure does say HR proving my point they are NOT gas class cars.
The original story is about a Gasser get together/car show. YOU said that the Corvaire was not a “gas class” car. No one said it was! NO where did anyone say it was a gas class car. It’s an original “Gasser”! NO ONE calls the Gas class cars “Gassers”. IF they do they’re idiots. There may have been some misunderstanding going back and fourth, but you and I are correct that that car is not a gas class car, but, like I said, no one said it was.