1957 FORD GASSER....

[JIMBO]

ANYBODY THAT DONT LIKE THIS....IS NOT A DRAG RACER!!!!!!

[Joe Dirt]

awesome! any pics of the tri five next to it also?

[JIMBO]

CHEVY II

[JIMBO]

1956 CHEVY THERE YOU GO JOE

[Joe Dirt]

1956 CHEVY THERE YOU GO JOE

awesome, i love gassers:rock:

[HorsePowerChic]

Those are beautiful Jimbo....

Can you imagine being around back in the day when a muscle car was a true "muscle car"?

My dad used to tell the best stories about when he was a teenager. He went to school with Gene...lol
Gene wasn't to happy to find that out...he wanted to know what all I knew.

[JIMBO]

55..CHEVY

[JIMBO]

I am stuck on the ol skool cars....Modern tech is great and yeah they're are more dependable and faster....But there is no substitute for the ones that started it....JUST COOL IS ALL YOU CAN SAY!!!!!!!

[JIMBO]

Do you think any body in this group was worried about their FAST system or their LAPTOP LMAO.....

[JIMBO]

pic

[Boomer]

Jimbo,

Where were these cars at?

[vortech_95-gt]

Just curious appx what kind of ET's would the gassers in the pics have to run to be competitive in their class back in their day? I will admit to being clueless about early dragsters. Cool pics.....Why do the fronts set so high? Im guessing it has something to do with traction...having the weight already transferred to the rear. What are the tanks on the front?....Like I said Im clueless but curious so dont laugh lol
Chris

[copperdodge]

The sky high nose was the result of replacing the front suspension with the I-beam axle from an old Ford van typically, and the idea was to get the weight onto the back tires at rest. When you hit the gas, even a 300hp doo-doo car would hook & yank the tires. The motors sat back, the fronts sat high, and not too many evolutions later, the front axle got moved forward. What you ended up with was Funny Cars. Hmmm....

The tank on front was for the nitromethane. A lot of the racers just used that as their fuel cell. Take the rest out, and that little tank was to fire it up, burnout, make a pass, and then shut it down. Less weight, gravity fed, and the bare minimum you needed to go fast.

[Psychoholic]

Great pics Jimbo!

Man I want one of those.

[whitestang 96]

Those are bad ass

[cracker]

that's some awesome shit right there!!

[vortech_95-gt]

The sky high nose was the result of replacing the front suspension with the I-beam axle from an old Ford van typically, and the idea was to get the weight onto the back tires at rest. When you hit the gas, even a 300hp doo-doo car would hook & yank the tires. The motors sat back, the fronts sat high, and not too many evolutions later, the front axle got moved forward. What you ended up with was Funny Cars. Hmmm....

The tank on front was for the nitromethane. A lot of the racers just used that as their fuel cell. Take the rest out, and that little tank was to fire it up, burnout, make a pass, and then shut it down. Less weight, gravity fed, and the bare minimum you needed to go fast.
Thanks Bud.....I appreciate the info.....I figured it was something along those lines

[JoshMac]

Black 55 FTW...Nice cars.