My world revolved around the gassers running at Lions Drag Strip during the mid 60's through the 70's. I was a young teenager back then. Too bad there weren't more big-name west coast guys mentioned in this video but believe me, Lion's was making a lot of history during that time. Saturday summer nights at Lions will always be a part of me. Cost a $1.50 to get in and another 50 cents for a pit pass. There was a grandstand where you could sit around fifty feet from the starting line and get your eyes full of nitro fumes and damage your hearing for life. I wish I could relive those days.

Great video Thanks I ran a 1962 FI Corvette in the Midwest in 1965 -66 before i went to Vietnam. Still have the car.

Excellent!, Excellent!, Excellent! Documentary! I feel like my old self again. This world has definitely wondered off the reservation. I feel sane again watching this , like coming down off a bad high. Excellent commentary. 1969 was the best year ever! You had to be there!

@buzzwaldron6195

2 ай бұрын

I was there in '69... also in '62... and earlier...

I own the Green E/Gas '55 Chevy on the towbar seen at 14:05. This photo was taken in Long Beach, just after the '57 had won D/Gas at the Winternationals in Pomona in 1963. That photo was taken just before they left for Indy in '63 for the Nationals. They caravaned with a number of teams including, Stone Woods and Cook, Chuck Finders, Radoumis and Moore and the Mallicoat Bros. The '55 set the National ET Record at Indy, then set the National Speed Record on the flat tow home at Half Moon Bay. The records held up until early to mid 1964 when Gene Schwartz, took the record over. The '55 is still in nearly the same condition today and can be seen on my historical gasser playlist on my KZread Channel. It is also nice to see the Panneton Owned '56 B/Gasser at San Fernando! Ric Panneton is still trying to locate this car today if anyone knows its whereabouts! Great video with a good mix of cars from all over the country!

Stone, Woods and Doug (Cookie) Cook was my favorite gasser and driver. Loved the M/P class and it's now gone as well.

@user-iy7yb1sh8g

3 ай бұрын

One of the many versions is currently on display at the NHRA Museum in Pomona, CA.

I "SUPER PICKLE" Henry J was a regular at Fontana Drag City around "70-71. Car was super clean w/ cool theme and graphics! I believe it had a 327 if my memory is correct and being sponsored by Scotty's Muffler was probably from the Inland Empire . Car is pictured in the staging lanes at Orange County and was a fan favorite at the time.

Another well-done video! Really like the history of drag racing. Gassers were interesting to me because of the home built aspect.

@THROTTLEPOWER

3 ай бұрын

So true!

When I about 12yrs old. There's was a young man that lived down the street from me. Had recently gotten back from Vietnam in the early 70s. And was blown away one day when he pulled out of his garage the most awesome show room quality Anglia gasser. Don't remember what it had for a motor. All I can remember is the fiberglass tilt front end, straight open headers and the coolest set of velocity stacks. The man was partially crippled from the war. But that didn't stop him from lighting that mother up. And running it down the street that day. I'll never forget him getting squirrelly and out of shape and almost wrecking. But he pulled it off. I've liked the hell out of gassers ever since. Thanks for the show 👍

@michaelchevreaux7780

3 ай бұрын

As a Former Vietnam Era Vet Myself, Don't Be Too Hard On Him. Just Hope You Don't Vote For Biden Or You May Have Your Own War Story.

@danielcombs3048

3 ай бұрын

@@michaelchevreaux7780 not knocking the soldier at all. In fact I lost my older brother to the Vietnam conflict. My father and uncle are both 35&38yr career veterans. I have the utmost respect for the military service men& women. Thank you for your service 🇺🇸

Good photos. I love all those Ansen Sprints.

thanks, great memories. made models as a young'n of several, always a SKC/Big John fan

some more details info about the EMPI Inch Pincher: Was actually owned by Joe Vittone's son Darrell Vittone. But the majority of the innovation developed by Dean Lowry, the R&D guyy at EMPI.l Dean also drove the Inch Pincher until 1967 when he left EMPI to start his own company. Darrell took over the development and driving of the Inch Pincher, gave it the updated paintjob you see in this video and raced that up to 1970 when they sold EMPI and Darrell had to build a new car. In 1967 Darrell clocked off 11.80's in the Inch Pincher.

Oh Yes! Back in the GOOD DAYS when America was pretty much NORMAL yet. Back when a citizen could still experience FUN, FREEDOM, and LIBERTY right here in OUR OWN COUNTRY and still be called the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!! Thank You for this breath of FRESH AIR with the 'fragrance' of high octane racing gas!!

@mikestaihr5183

3 ай бұрын

Yeah. Before we became a "Corporate-tocracy" and only the rich get the freedom to have fun...... how many home garage mechanics do you see in any racing these days.

I love Old school Gasser's. They're absolutely Awesome.

Outstanding coverage! I grew up with the gassers & really miss them.

Awesome video. I was just imagining the amount of work that went into building and running these beautiful racers. The times with the old body styles was really impressive.

This is why they call them the good old days I was born about twenty five years to late great video

@markpospichal1309

3 ай бұрын

In my freshman year of high school (winter of '69), I started building my '56 Chevy 210 into a gasser. By the time I graduated and finally got enough money to make it competitive, they did away with the class! Worst case of born too late...

Bravo my Friend!!! Excellent "GASSER" documentary. I dig your no-nonsense delivery. Short & to the point.

Looks to be a 426 hemi rather than a 392 in Paddack's Opel @ 6:27. Great video Thanks for sharing

@ThomasELeClair

3 ай бұрын

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,true.........426,,,,Magneto poking out on the front pass side.......Also i live in Pittston PA...,,,learned much history about Joe Amato ,,,Heard he raced with his Dad....never heard Joe had a brother......Also,,,,The great Tim Richards grew up in a small area near Dunmore PA,,,,,,,Someone did a great job of restoring all the photos from back in the era........thanks........

Fantastic video. I remember a lot of the cars competing at Beachben in KY. As a kid.

The names of the builders and drivers of these cars really spark my memories of the hot rod and drag racing magazines I spent my meager funds on in high school...

Great documentary, gassers aren't dead, they are alive and well in the nostalgia gasser meets. BTW, I had a 1967 Ford Mustang Square Back gasser with a 351 Clevland and 4-speed top loader that was both street and strip.

These videos only get better. Thanks so much for the education.

These were true hot rods in every sense. Great video.

seein' all these cars is too cool! i remember a lot of 'em from hot rod mags when i was a youngin'! 😃

Blasting me to past, i always loved 41' Willy Stone woods in 1980's resurrection it painted blue awesome sharing this topic budget racing. I had a couple sleeper's in my early 20's Good ole times 😄 we need go back to analog and phones on wall, eliminated cell phone's 😜

Great video. Loved the gassers as I am from that era, Modified Production sort of took over as street/strip racers but didn't last.

@ 10:35 I remember seeing that car run many times. Always clean as a pin. Saw John Carters car run at Ohio Valley Dragway and other tracks in Ky . I have seen quite a few in this video so it brings back memories of the good old days. I ran E/SA and SS IA during the 70s.

Subscribed, seeing the Jim Oddy opel always gets my attention as I own that car. Was the Frank & Linda Mazi car until my friend Tom Joblinski of Rebellious drag traikers, bought it in the mid 80s. He has since passed, so now I have it. Being a violent car it's on the third body. That info is on line under the combustion chamber site that Franks daughter has. I've also been looking for pics of the Olynick body 55 d gas 55 chevy from the detroit area. My brother , cousin and I got that car mid 70s and ran it at Detroit Dragway. Keep up the good work

thanks for sharing video needs to be more of this today

Couldn't agree more about what d racing has become over the years. Incredible boring,overpriced,generic jelly beans. Even the comments of drivers are homogenized. Im stuck in this 60s,70s era also.

@docsmallblock6584

3 ай бұрын

Well we now have small tire no prep, back of the track type racing which is pretty damn cool!

@garycamara9955

3 ай бұрын

This is drag racing, not street or road racing. Also not autocross.

@Jakal-pw8yq

2 ай бұрын

Give me a 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS 454 7 days a week and twice on sunday! There is nothing like the sound of a big block being rung piss tight!💯

@randallbaker1308

Ай бұрын

I drive a 68 dodge polara 500 with a 383,and a 66 falcon station wagon with a built 302,,,no school like old school. No substitute for AMERICAN MUSCLE

My favorite class of all time, great stuff, I love it! I watched many of these cars run. All others pale in comparison. Great stuff, thanks!

Gassers have always been my favorite race cars. Absolute great video, thanks for posting. I see these cars and can’t help but wonder, where are all these cars now.

Great stuff, Awesome Old School!

That was great!! Love the Super Pickle!

Outstanding video and work.....thank you

@ 21:08 I love the original artwork on the injector scoop cover on the Slo-Poks A/GS pickup

That was a great video the good old days

🏁Enjoyed!! 🏁

What a great video.Brought back some great memories!

I love the video thank you very much, I went to the drag strips a few times in my youth, mostly Colonial Beach Dragway in Virginia & Buds Creek Dragway in Maryland, I have a few fond memories !!!!

excellent video .I remember watching the Grubb Brothers run a 41 willys ( I think) at Coles County dragstrip in Charleston Illinois in the mid 60s . Loved that willys

I had a ball with my L/Gas VW bug,I finished first in my division and eighth in the world in 1979 AHRA bracket racing in Ohio. I also took first in my bracket and second in the king of the hill race at the Hot VW drag day in December 79. Everyone had a VW story wherever we went and I still get a lot of attention with my 71 hot rod beetle today, the gassers were always good to watch. 😊

Great video, saw a lot of my old favorites even some I'd forgotten.

16:29 - 16:36 I remember this guy tearing up the "Oswego Dragstrip" back in '68 & '69.

Excellent quality pics and great variety of cars. Good voice over info and pleasant subtle background music.

My dad was a photographer in the sixties and sold a lot of the photos to Hot Rod magazine. We grew up at Aquasco drag strip on the weekends. Saw a lot of great drag racing and unfortunately it will never be like that again. Had boxes of 8" x 10" black and white photos from that drag strip but unfortunately my ex-wife refused to let me have them, put them in a shed and let them ruin. Hemi Underglass, Leroy's Toy, Little Red Wagon and hundreds more. Great video, brought back a lot of memories.

@keithdmaust1854

3 ай бұрын

That's just cruel...

Thanks for the walk down memory lane.

Great video. Yes this was the golden age for sure. And yes, please do a whole vid segment on Stone Woods and Cook. I am searching for what i belive was an early 34 Ford by them.

Great information and pictures, thanks

Another great post! 👍

Great video. Outstanding research

Thanks for the video,your right it ended the sportmanclass of racing and made it all Bid Dollars

Great video love it thanks

At 2:08 in the video, the burgandy 55 Chevy was my gasser, from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. That car in 1968 ran D/Altered (11#/ci) in NHRA Div 5 Comp Eliminator. High points winner all divisions, #1 seed at Tulsa Worls Finals, In 1969 returned to E/Gas, set and held a number of class records

Give yourself a pat on the back, for sure one best drag racing video's I've watched. Thank you

In 1969 I had a 57 Corvette with a tube front axle and a blown 392 hemi that I ran as ABB gas lot of fun used to run at Irwindale OC. IR lions and riverside.

Great presentation

Great days. Did winter nationals in 62 The most all cars were constructed out of whatever they could come up with. There was Isky, Crane, and a few other cam grinders. Edelbrock manifolds Headman headers and a few others. No glue for the strip, no electronic anything. Never be the same!

Thank you for your time

Very good, Thank you..... Mark

A gas supercharged was my favorite class I raced at Lions Drag Strip and Irwindale my two favorite gassers was King Kong Korola Brothers Anglia and the MGM Truck.

Love those old gasser!! I looking for a 40 to 46 dodge truck for project .

Most beautiful and very exciting race cars .... awesome times for true drag racing

I have fond memories of those days. In 1963 3 of us 17 year old high school kids went to Dragway 42 in West Salem Ohio just to see Stone Woods and Cook race Ohio George Montgomery. Cookie ran off the end of the strip that had a banked turn to slow down the cars. He didn't have any brakes and the B&M trans wouldn't slow it down. That beautiful Willies flew into a beanfield across the road. Cook broke his nose and sort of wrecked the car. Good Times!

I look for and buy all the Hot Wheels Gassers... My favorite the Volvo P-Gasser.

That’s a crack up. When I was 15 in 1968 I bought a 1959 Opel Olympia wagon from my friend’s Dad. I also paid $25.00

ME TOO ...I GREW UP AT ENGLISHTOWN DRAG STRIP....SUMMERNATIONALS EVERY YEAR...FUNNY CARS WERE DOOR SLAMMERS...SHIRLEY MULDOWNEY WAS FOR REAL...THE BLUE MAX....JUNGLE JIM....WE SAW THE BEST....GOD BLESS OUR MEMORIES...AND THE GOOD OLD 60s. WE LIVED IT

SO cool...!...!..the golden years of Drag raceing & for that matter all forms of race'n...and probaly America...! dident know Jack Merkel ran his willys blown..!..very cool..Jack was always a nice guy whenever I met him..!...great video....!...thank u..!

I loved these cars & watched them in the day. Saw "Ohio George. Montgomery" & he let sit in the Mustang at Muncie Dragway in Muncie, Ind. in 1968. Not to many remember when ran "The Gasser Passer" Anglia. A guy I went to school had one of STONE WOIDS & Cook's spare Willies

Great video!!

@3:44...Wow, let's talk about that trailer...what a trailer, it's so custom you can see the carwas driven and pop-up there by itself....but it took an expert to get the rear wheels on without overshooting the front wheels off.

The unnamed Willys at Aquasco was Dave Hales (sp?) it ran D Gas and was later sponsored by S&S Speed shop along with several other National gassers that invaded the 63 Nationals at Indy

When I was a freshman in high school I hung out with guys that were Juniors and seniors. Just the way it went. One of the guys was from the Foss family which if you're familiar with tugboats, Foss Tugs are it!! So one of my buddies was Eric Foss, heir to the Foss fortune! 💸So what does his dad get him for his graduation gift? A 1970 Dodge Hemi Challenger!! 🚘426c.i. of dual quad, Hemi fired, slapstick four-speed, positraction beast! He had just received the car as his gift and wanted to show it off so what do we do? We hit the closest freeway on-ramp and he lit that thing up like there was no tomorrow! The only way I can describe the acceleration are three words, violence, acceleration, and torque!! Good lord! I've been in many many super fast, super quick cars but that Hemi Challenger was the one! And I'm a Chevy fan for God's sake!💯

cool!

you don't have to go Mach 3 with your hair on fire to have fun

👁️ BAD-ASS!!! BRINGS BACK SOME GREAT MEMORIES!!!👀

I would like to see my friend's, "Souza Bros. and Dad", 33 Willis A/G, 4speed, 427 Tunnel port Ford on you channel. They ran in Norcal strips mostly at Fremont between 1965-1968. Dave was a great driver and brother Harold the chief wrench. Dave wheelied and banged out consistent low 10.10s at 133-135 mph and probably a bit better at local Half Moon Bay Drags right on the West coast S. of SF. where the dense air and low alt. made a difference. Dave and Harold helped me to get my Ford A/S, 427 more than ready to be able to run a best of 12.48, 111.80 and win many class trophies and my coveted "Fremont Drag Strip", red jacket that I still have almost 60 yrs. later. It was a great time we had many Moons ago...

7:40, the Filthy Forty, amassed the crowds with it wheel standing antics for a C/G'er. At registration at Speedway shopping center I was intrigued by the electric water pump and by how much water was leaking from the radiator, they had a serious overheating problem at the time. Only a little over 60yrs. ago.

Fantastic video, we need a time machine !😎

When the home garage built, low budget racers were squeezed out I sadly lost interest in the sport. A great video, Thanks!

that was a cool video

Didn't see BIG John Mazmanian. He was my favorite gasser

Great job , how in the world did you get all these photos and info on the cars. Love seeing Loper's Lil Hoss . It was all the rage in PHX back in the day.

Gassers are still my favorite !!

I grew up watching Gassers!!!!

DUDE, they raced Hudsons in the 50s. They were the champs of NASCAR!

What , No Jack Ditmars Lil Screamer ? B/A & 😂 Wheel Stander when It Felt Good.😂

I've seeing someone talked about the meaning of "A GASSER" from THE WORLD OF COLLETOR CARS which means exactly what it sounded like it had to run on pump gas, NO NOXS, SUPER CHARGERS OR BLOWERS

I still remember some of the cars an driver's from wide world of sports an magazine's

Nice…

HELLZ YEAH

Back when any one could drag race , now its a rich mans game. Wish the gassers would come back and let these young guys race again.

So True!!!!

Gassers racing when a guy with a backyard shop had a chance to win. No more forever.

5:46 C/G? Can you imagine how big that motor would have to be to put that barge into C Gas?

I like your entree thanks to you from.a ga racer.

I only heard B Altered a couple times. They may have fallen outside your time guidelines but you should really look into Danny and Norma Crites and the Pride of Baltimore

Had a cousin that ran a 41 Willys out of Chicago. I barely remember it and wish I had pictures. Bussy and Fouts if my memory is correct?

Was disappointed that you didn't have Big John Mazmanians Willis in the Gassers vedio