- Gasser
Wars: Drag Racing's Street Classes, 1955-1968 - In the late
1950s, thousands of street legal hot rods participated in organized
drag races across the country-they ran in three major classes:
Gas, Modified Production, and Modified Sports. As the racers got
more serious, these cars were street legal in appearance only.
Yeah, they had headlights, taillights, and interiors, but they
were full-on race cars, with huge blown Hemi engines, wide racing
slicks, raised front suspensions. Racers soon discovered that
small, lightweight cars were the fastest, and the classic Gasser
was born-cars like the Stone Woods & Cook '40 Willys.
- Drag
Racing Funny Cars of the 1960s Photo Archive: From Super Stockers
to Floppers - In the 1960s funny cars captured the fans with
tremendous smoky burnouts and gigantic wheel stands, they
were so unpredictable that you never knew what to expect - they
might go straight or end up glancing off the guard rail. Heroes
were born and idolized with their driving talents and their showmanship.
Arnie "The Farmer" Beswick, "Mr. Pontiac"
Jess Tyree, The "Kings of Smoke" - Farkonas, Coil and
Minick's "Chi-Town Hustler," Don Schumacher, "Big
John" Mazmanian, and "Jungle Jim" Liberman drew
standing room only crowds each and every Saturday night under
the lights!
- Pro
Stock Drag Racing of the 1970s Photo Archive: From Stockers to
Door Slammers - Pro Stockers with radical big-block race engines
and factory bodywork always provided plenty of fender-to-fender
wheel stand action. Popular drivers like 'Dandy Dick' Landy, Bill
'Grumpy' Jenkins, Ronnie Sox, Bob Glidden, Wally Booth, Wayne
Gapp, Warren Johnson, 'Dyno' Don Nicholson, Lee Hunter, Scott
Shafiroff, Brad Yuill, Richie Zul, and many more are all showcased
in high wheel action in this 'door slammer' pictorial.
A must for hardcore Pro Stock fans!
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