Gasser & Altered fotos!!!

[Gastrick]

This Big John Mazmanian Austin was nicknamed the "Football" because of the radical chop. It was promptly outlawed by the NHRA and went on to compete in match races. It was recently restored.

 

[hotrodron]

Good call Gastrick. The men behind the machines.......

 

[hotrodron]

 

[Gastrick]

Hangin em high. This is Jack Merkel. He was another consistent runner.

 

[rust lover]

I've seen the orange Harley truck and the "Beast" and the bikes. Something else? I hear hes gonna do some appearances with the Beast. Must be nice to drive your car somewhere and hang out and get paid for it. LOL Especially that car!

chuck will be with us at the new england nats this summer my brother has the clone of milners coupe of american graffiti his car tours with candy clark and bo hopkins

 

[Gastrick]

Another Merkel 33.

 

[Gastrick]

Really nice SWC picks Ron.

 

[hotrodron]

Awesome rust!

 

[hotrodron]

Thanks. Its hard to find pics of them. Tons of pics of the cars, but not a lot of them. I don't think they were totally accepted in the culture at the time due to their race.

 

[Gastrick]

This Agitator Willys pick-up was campainged by Paul Day before he ran the 33Coupe that I posted earlier. This truck was destroyed in a crash. The salvaged Olds rear from it sat on our patio for years after the crash.

 

[Gastrick]

Thanks. Its hard to find pics of them. Tons of pics of the cars, but not a lot of them. I don't think they were totally accepted in the culture at the time due to their race.

Yea, it was pretty much kept secret during the time that the cars were running I'm told.

 

[hotrodron]

One of the most famous racing teams of the 60s was the S & S Racing team from Virginia. The team was owned by Chuck Stolze, the owner of S & S Parts Co. In 1964 the five team drivers - ( K.S. Pittman A/GS, Gene Altizer A/G, Fred Bear B/G, Pork Zartman C/G, Dave Hales D/G ) held the Eastern Drag News records in all five classes!

 

[hotrodron]

 

[rust lover]

a blast

more nice gassers

 

[Gastrick]

Another big name that I don't think I've seen here yet is "Ohio" George Montgomery. He was quite an innovative racer.



His Malco Mustang was the beginning of the end for the gassers that we all knew and loved

 

[Gastrick]

Nice S & S team shots Ron. I had dropped a couple of K.S. Pittman shots in this thread somewhere.

 

[fiki]

since im not from the states and dont really know the drag racing kulture...can some1 explain me what a definition of a gasser is? just wondering...

 

[Bonehead]

I know we are getting a few duplicates, but I wonder what the car count is here?

 

[Bonehead]

I gotta say, that some of you guys really know your stuff. When I was young and at the drag strip, I was too young, and only liked the wheelies and the smoke. Classification was something I did not care about.
I also learned alot from HOTROD magazine, but classification?, no.
When someone answers Fiki's question, I would like to know the more popular classes. I know A/fx and a few more but not all of them.

 

[Bonehead]

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