Late 60's/early 70's look

hemizach said

I'm 17 and the coolest cars that i have seen in my life are old gassers and superstockers. Course it helps that I grew up around people that owned/raced them. I'd love to build a 41 willys gasser, coupe or sedan... doesn't matter, but they are WAYYYY to expensive to build now. Oh well, I will build my super stock tribute car instead.

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Zach, keep up your enthusiam. Those of us that were around back then won't be around much longer & those cars ARE a part of American history---besides being cool we need guys like you to keep 'em going. At 17 I had a '55 ChevyGasser--straight axle, 'glass nose, etc. The only that WAS straight on it WAS the axle. It had been someone's clapped out old racecar I managed to piece together & it was fun. Even on a small budget you could probably build yourself a gasser & work your way up to a '41 willy's. There's no rules what a "gasser" body has to be. Remember these were cars that were in fact pieced together by guys that thought they could actually build a faster car than what the factory did, so there really were no rules except whatthe racing organizations stipulated. How about a straight-axled Fox-body Mustang? The cars are plentuful, cheap, light, already have a V-8 and most importantly are easy to find! You could do the gasser "thing" with almost any car, use any motor and play with suspension ideas all you want. That was essentially the formula for one of these things!