If you haven’t heard of the Gasser Racing Series, you are missing out. With only two classes, a requirement for open headers, and an everything goes except Nitro mentality, this series is GREAT! All cars must have a “nostalgic” appearance, and can’t be any newer than 1974. The Modified Gas class is for 1974 and earlier cars, and the Nostalgia Gas class is for 1966 and earlier. There are MAXIMUM ET’s for each class, and it’s all run on the 1/8 mile. At $50, the yearly membership fee is reasonable, and the entire $25 race entry fee goes back to the purse! You win your money back! It sounds great to us, and some of the cars are killer. Everything from traditional gassers to late 60’s Super Stockers. It’s a win if you like the era, and we do.
Every race will be held at Empire Dragway in Leicester, New York so we just might have to send our own Brian Lohnes up there to check out a few. The first race is in May, and then they start cranking them out about once every three weeks!
This looks sort of like a class I’ve seen run at Woodburn dragway in Oregon. They called it Roadsters & Dragsters. (no door cars obviously but similar). Sweet racing to watch.
And event like this needs a title sponsor. Bangshift Nationals comes to mind.
Awesome event with lots of Nostalgia cars – Anglias, Willys, HJs and more
This can be a great event IF egos and politics can be left outside the gate. Telling “real” history cars they cannot run unless they remove their front bumper or guys with fenderless hot rods being told they have to put fenders on takes out the fun the GRS claims it is. I think it’s ironic that the photos posted show the opposite. They also claim that Modified Gas class is for 1974 and earlier cars and this may be the case. However the Modified Gas class only went to 1972 last season but had a well known 1977 Chevy Vega Wagon running in it because the GRS claimed that its tail lights said 1971. Many protests were brought up to no avail. So for 2012 they raised the age of only the Modified Gas class to include 1974 cars. Now that same 1977 Vega that became a 1971 is now a 1974! How is it that you can have 1 car be 3 different years and why is the GRS covering for this car??? Who’s friends with whom???
As I said this can be a really great, fun event, one that I’m pulling for a long history. There are alot of really great cars and even alot better people to go with it. However I fear that if certain egos are not put in check and the favoritisim isn’t curbed that this event will go the sad way so many others do and no longer exsist.
no name huh…thats balls
I take it you’re the owner of the 1977 Vega Wagon or you run this gasser series
prove its a 77
Many people know its a 77 Mark. You forget that the car has been well known at Lancaster before you bought the car just so you could go fast. Why don’t you just fess up! It’ll make you look like the bigger man because you’re not fooling anybody. Remember, the guy that built it is still around.
i just dont know where 77 is coming from. i don’t know how many people had the car before me. the car had no title or registration so i was going by the taillight lense of 71.yeah its modified but if a 38 chevy is modified in 2010 does that make it a 2010? i’m just trying to have some fun racing with a great bunch of people, as far as being the bigger man… you know who i am
this is the last post by the way i dont even know why i’m trying to explain myself
Just my 2 cents here. Personally I think it is very nit picky who has bumpers and fenders and who doesn’t. But rules, however rediculous, are rules! But a car that is too new per these rules certainly does not belong and I do have to agree that somebody is covering for someone when you have 1 car with 3 different years attached to it. I’ve been to other nostalgia events and they can be fun if everyone is one big happy family. Double standards does not make for a happy family only a happy few!
71 to 73 did not have functional bumpers. Funny it was known as a 77 until it raced in the GRS. Racing politics at its best
“Bauer has raced since the early 1990s, always in the full-fendered door cars. He started out with running in the Heavy and Mod ET classes, and then ran a popular 1977 Vega station wagon for many years.” Yea who knew????? Man up and tell the truth
Cool cars
Too bad about the issues that obviously need to get cured
I dont see whats so nostalgic about a 77 vega anyway
It sounds to me more like newstalgic and should go out and bracket race with other newstalgic cars
So if one guy has a 71 steel vega and another guy has new fiberglass replica the steel vega is at a disadvantage in a DIAL ET race BECAUSE …….?
Does this mean a racer cannot use a 2011 fiberglass Vega body because…..?
Ass..uming you are correct in the suspect Vega what is the disadvantage of racing a 77 vs 74 vs 72 unless one is talking about drivers!
Sounds to me like anonymous racers might have a grudge because they got beat by such a Vega!
Maybe people should concentrate on winning at the track…just a thought!
Well lets see….YES i did own this 72 vega wagon before selling it to mark.Yes for the longest time i did call it a 77…only because the front end was a 74-77 and i never wanted to seem like i had a old car…so calling it a 77 was just closer to the year that it was at the time of racing it.When I bought it from Ron Fuller(R.I.P) which he purchased it from John Hipwell of Canada the car was purchased as a 1972 vega wagon….If any wishes to scroll threw some of there National Dragsters from the early 90’s(90-96) they will see the car for sale…..Listed 1972 Vega Wagon Super Pro………….So Enclosing i would only like to Say “RUN YOUR CAR…NOT YOUR MOUTH” P.S This car was built in 1988 at Moroso(Competion Products)…And redone by a couple very GOOD friends of mine.
Bob Bauer Jr
The car has a functional rear bumper…….bullshit makes for nice cover to those who don’t know what is underneath
lets all just go out and race and have a good time if you are worried about a certain vega because he is an excellent racer just go out and beat him if you can thanks for listening bill
Well I checked out this gasser website, its rules and the pictures.
From what I see is that there is obviously a later model Vega. This is easy to tell by the big bumpers. No body ever changes an early model Vega to make it look like a newer one because everyone likes the early model better. So now I see 2 BS stories. 1 is the obvious that this guy has friends or relatives that are covering for him even though the rules say this car doesn’t fit. The other is the post by this Bob Bauer Jr who should either use his real name or know more about the car he supposively built. Because there is no way that a big bumper Vega was ever build in 72 and its not just the front end.
Now about this bumper thing. Seeing that the rules accept nostalga cars up to 66 then someone should read the 66 rules that say that removing bumpers are optional, not mandatory. With that said, if someone tells me that I have to take my car apart so I can race, they are going to have a date with my Snapon hammer. My car is a gasser right down to the straight axle, fenderwall headers and pie crusts and yes it has bumpers. How many pictures of old gassers do you want to see with bumpers or for that matter no fenders. And I also like how the rules say that a car has to be approved or accepted—- really.
This sounds like the same old BS and politics. Save it for election day not the track.