GASSERS GALORE THE GOLDEN ERA OF THE GASSERS

welcome to this promotional clip from our full-length video production entitled gassers galore the full-length feature runs 2 hours and 28 minutes and spotlights the gassers of the golden era of drag racing let's begin with a look at an old dirt surface ghost track somewhere in America now these early gassers were hopped up versions of the streetcars that were used for daily transportation in post-world War two America hot riders as they became known began to modify their streetcars with the more powerful engines and stronger driveline components in the 1950s and 60s drag racing was held at the Madera City Airport in Madera California and they had gassers galore the Madera quarters Clark Club held monthly drag races at the airport and the first NHRA California state championship drags were held at Madera in 1954 and oh yes they had some pretty California girls at Madera one of the first purpose-built drag strips on the East Coast was New Jersey's Iowan drag way back in the early days you could find gassers goal or a Thailand now one thing our gasser drivers had to remember was the need to get on the brakes real fast when you hit the finish line at Island because it had a short shutdown area with a hazardous set of railroad tracks on the top end and as we can see here this Willy's gasser could not get stopped in time this is Vinnie teram Tola out of Brooklyn New York with his ruies gasser now Benny was the founder of white car engineering and his transmissions and torque converters were used in many gassers throughout the country now the second car we take a look at is the Mallicoat brothers 40 Willy's out of gardenia California now check out the single axle open trailer used by the brothers that crisscross the country now the Mallicoat brother's Garry and Jerry use a small-block 327 Chevy blown and injected and a four-speed hydro stick by being out on this day at Island driveway we find our great-looking 1958 Chevrolet gasser called stone crusher now this car is owned and raised by the Rotonda brothers out of New Jersey out on the track these guys were really tough to beat Maryland's a Costco drive strip had gassers galore back in the 1960s and we begin with Charlie Ford's 37 Chevy after we called the Marylander one of the biggest races of the year attic Wasco is the Presidents Gold Cup and there were always gassers go the event that's Bob Bernard and jolly dolly racing a grump the team of our key Mullaney and hem c1 this a gas falcon our full-length video contains some classic footage of the SNS racing team out of Falls Church Virginia now this is gene al teasers injected angwa and check out the sound there were also gassers galore at the famous act code driveway in the southern part of New Jersey check em out and here comes Jean Maury and his shovel a powered Volkswagen and here we see fredbear cranking up this wooly now it's full of itched again as he gets ready to make a pass in his 1940 Studebaker gasser at Vargo Dragway in fricassee Pennsylvania now keep in mind that you are watching a promotional clip from our full-length video entitled gassers galore in our following video you will get the whole story on what went wrong with Ed's classic gasser well as it turned out Ed's day of racing was over due to catastrophic engine failure on the outside is Tony PZ and a Carl Volpe modified production for that and that skipped Bethel in the snake charmer on the inside and now we head across the country to Pomona California while check out this altered wheelbase 57 for called gunfighter Jericho from Portland Oregon Fulton gives in his four-speed small-block forward altered there's Johnny Walker out of Phoenix Arizona with his 51 anglia called little Hoss - heard mower takes off and Jack get Moore's little screamer 34 Ford and will get the win over Johnny woofers Anglia North Texas had Green Valley Raceway and Green Valley Raceway had gassers blower how about this Caravan a gassers KS Pitman followed by stone woods & Cooke and how about Big John mazmanian now its head north to detroit dragway where in 1959 the ram chargers ran this 1949 point of Business Group in the C altered class they used the 354 cubic inch Hemi with 392 heads and two four barrels and it was called high and mighty English tell New Jersey we have gassers galore pulling into English town raceway park check them out maple grove dragged away opened in 1962 and gassers were there from the beginning in the pit area you could usually find a variety of gassers alternates and street roadsters you could even find a beer barrel on occasion and there's the Heffron and kaiser gasser that's Bob Kaiser turned out to be a world champion in competition eliminator during his career waiting in staging lanes is the Chevrolet ghen of the Maury brothers that butch and Jean Morey use an injected Chevrolet engine for go power in your Volkswagen gasser we close out our maple grove coverage which is very unique most thing this is Jim Costello is turbinate powered mustang called the turbo stand and this very rare footage is a gas by the mid 1960s southeastern had a new timing tower and it was hosting much more powerful race cars such as the hemi hurricane a gas Willy's of monkey Bobo they also had gassers galore at new york national speedway on one island new york another Long Island driveway was Westhampton and the stands were always packed with spectators who loved to watch the gassers put on a show in our full-length video you will see over 1,000 gassers at 40 different drag strips and here's Coney Island Ralph's engulfed en is Willy's gasser let's make a quick stop at Phoenix drag way in Phoenix City Alabama and see some of the southern gassers in action I'll tell you I love this Ford and it's called bossman there were always plenty of gassers at Maryland Cecil County driveway and we begin with Ross Gilbert's be modified production Chevy well the SS race team showed up at Cecil County with a couple cars that's fredbear check this out big john mazmanian candy apple red Willy's gasser Bristol Dragway is home of the NHRA Spring Nationals and with that association we find gatherings galore at Bristol Cheers Earl Britt of Sioux Falls South Dakota with his 54 Corvette called the pizza man it was the quickest six cylinder Corvette in the world here comes Dean Lowrey with the EMPI inch pincher Volkswagen bug the hopped up VW runs in the H gas class and is the most famous Volkswagen race car of all time the quarter races dragged away of Boiling Springs Pennsylvania opened in 1962 and by the mid 1960s you could kind of gassers at the track that's Merv warriors half-breed big-ass 56 Chevy you gotta love this 59 anger National Trail Raceway is located just outside Columbus Ohio and on this day we found a nice group of gassers York us 30 drag way in York Pennsylvania always had a great group of gassers at their combination Airport drag strip facility the following footage is from the 1965 NHRA Division one record being held at York and that's Harry was a turd with his C gas 32 Ford five-window coupe New Yorkers Frank and John Calley run this little red Anglia at the intersection of Route 75 and 80 in Monrovia Maryland you find the 7580 driveway and gassers galore this street roadster is powered by a 389 Pontiac engine with six Stromberg 97 car breeders I'll check out the trick Volkswagen front suspension let's take a ride down the mason-dixon quarter-mile with bummy and his 31 Chevy roads through or annex off we'll be at the old Pensacola drag way in Pensacola Florida and you guessed it they had a bunch of gassers there JC Sizemore's altered wheelbase 55 Chevy called goldenrod Big D when J Siegel at it one more time and the goldenrod takes round 4 that's JC Sizemore and it's altered wheelbase by Chevrolet this next segment contains short clips from various drag strips around the country and we call it gas or bits now we move over to the Panhandle area of Florida for some action on runway number four at the United States Air Force Eglin Air Force Base located near Fort Walton Beach Florida this angwa is racing at the old Miami drag way which was located in Pembroke Pines Florida and one of the regulars at the track was Jerry Gwen and his baby Huey altered roadster ever since 1961 when NHRA moved the location of their national drag races to Indianapolis the area has put out the red carpet to drag racers from all over the country as well as those from Canada and other foreign competitors in the early years tech inspection for the nearly 1,000 competitors was held in the parking lot of a shopping center on 16th Street in Indianapolis joining a circus-like atmosphere of the tech area is the her ship their company's Pontiac for a vehicle here we see one of the NHRA tech officials looking over the B gas Willy's that belongs the fredbear of the S&S racing team now let's take a look around the pit area and see some of the gases coming out for the big go where here comes Ohio George Montgomery with his 1969 double-a gas supercharged Mustang there is quite a story behind this car and the effect that it had on the world of drivers in our full length - hour and twenty eight minute video we have an exclusive interview with Ohio George and he tells us all about the Mustang well I hope you enjoyed this promotional clip from our full-length video entitled gas erskyll war visit us at be on video calm and get your personal copy today

Channel: James Amos Bee On Video

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Rating: 4.8319998 out of 5

Keywords: BEE ON VIDEO, JIM AMOS, GASSERS, GAS, WILLYS, HENRY J, ANGLIA, DRAG RACING, NOSTALGIA, NOSTALGIA DRAG RACING, AQUASCO, MADERA, NEW YORK NATIONAL, WESTHAMPTON, CECIL COUNTY, MAPLE GROVE, ENGLISHTOWN, BEE LINE, POMONA, GREEN VALLEY, PENSACOLA, NATIONAL TRAIL, MORI, ROTONDA, MASON DIXON, BRISTOL, MUNCIE

Id: 1CEBWbP4jxo

Length: 17min 58sec (1078 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 09 2015