such a cool surprise to come across this gasser at the Steve McQuuen car show, not only a vintage dragster, but also a magazine featured one - with photos of it in action back in the golden age of drag racing

a gasser Celica in Hawaii... thank you Ken!

 

WOW, Jesse Bourke's period-correct gasser 63 Dodge Phoenix

https://www.facebook.com/reel/642175561640533

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGyvSQIzDQl/

Hard to tell what this could have been before someone went blind. I think it was a CRX based on the windows

This is the first time the phrase " you've got to see this cool gasser Monaco" have ever been written. It's a 67 with a 58 392 hemi, 8 3/4 with a 4.70 gear set

 https://www.facebook.com/reel/3711551225795073?mibextid=9drbnH  for the only video I could find of it rolling

https://www.forcbodiesonly.com/mopar-forum/threads/1967-dodge-dodge-monaco-22-500.67602 for the gallery of images

Steve Ramsey from Maryland took these two Falcons, and created a combo of vintage looks and potent performance for the coolest different uses, gasser and trans am racer

 

https://www.motortrend.com/news/ford-performance-best-ford-ford-awarded-1963-ford-falcon-gasser/
https://www.motortrend.com/features/trans-am-style-1963-ford-falcon-coyote-engine-swap/

196 Vette with a mystery drag racing history

https://www.hagerty.com/media/car-profiles/mystery-history-do-you-recognize-this-vintage-corvette-racer/

sweet gasser, with matching era correct helmet

1964 gasser-style Rambler American (skip past the first 2 minutes to get to the racing)

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/1964-rambler-american-is-a-nasty-wagon-with-drag-racing-skills-210387.html#agal_0

fun gasser Morris

Pepsi Joe's 59 gasser bug, he competed in Hot Rod Drag Week 2021 and won the spirit of drag week award with it!

Joe got Parkinson’s at the age of 43, to the where he couldn’t even hold a wrench, but after taking medication was able to control it a little bit – enough where he could at least work on cars. His wife said you need to build something nobody’s ever seen before.

It has a 408 stroker motor, 350 turbo transmission, 3100 stall converter, and 7 1/2-inch rear end with Yukon 342 gears and axles.

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=2219807 

https://staceydavid.com/waywo

sweet gasser truck/van

 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=627603389159501&set=a.580074900579017

that's a full suspension extension I believe

thanks Terry!

I finally got to see Brendon's gasser in person!

 

I posted about it when he finished it, and when it was in Hot Rod magazine https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2022/03/finally-reason-to-get-hot-rod-magazine.html

I found the Ebay Motors sponsored Ford Ranger, and the NHRA champion ship winning gasser Corvette I posted a couple of weeks ago

 

 ---------- Original Message ---------- From: PAUL LASNER To: "jbohjkl@yahoo.com" Date: 08/06/2023 6:20 PM PDT Subject: Rick Lasner's 58 corvette 

 Hello....I received a posting describing the 58 corvette previously owned by my brother, Rick Lasner. I know every inch of that car. I raced with my brother, including in 1969 at the NHRA Nationals and often at Niagra in Buffalo among other tracks. The first time the car was raced was at Canadaigua Speedway in Canandaigua New York on a 1\4 mile strip that was 1\2 dirt (part of the dirt circular track). Nasty. The car was stock. The car never had a roll bar until we arrived at the track in Indiainapolis and were told we had to add one to comply. we cut the hole and welded it up on then spot. There is (was) a deep gouge in the fiberglass on the bottom right rear quarter where the follow car I was driving slipped off the push bar as we approached staging at the Nationals. I believe those runs were the last time the car ever raced. There are a few errors in your posting. The car was never a gasser. I believe we mostly raced in C Gas. When raced the motor was never a 302. Jess Halen Engines in Rochester NY built the last motor, the one we raced at the Nationals and my recollection is that it was a bored 327. Also, we didn't win any races at the 1969 Nationals. No trophies. The injectors had just been installed and we couldn't get them properly jetted. the car kept breaking up at high RPM's. We came home with nothing....but it was fun. Paul Lasner

On Monday, August 7, 2023 at 12:28:33 PM PDT, PAUL LASNER wrote: 

A couple corrections and a bit more information in the interest of getting the history correct: Throughout most of the car's history on the track it was in a modified production class (B/MP?) if memory serves. Its transition to (C/G?) happened in about1968 when the tubular axel, the new Halen-built engine and the Hillborn injectors were added. In this configuration the car did not see much time on the track prior to The Nationals. I was incorrect in stating that the car had no rollbar prior to the 1969 Nationals. I think I was confused by the photo in your piece. The original rollbar was a more simple affair than what is on it now. Originally, it was U-shaped with no brace behind the driver. It did not meet NHRA regs and we had to add the bracing. I hope this helps. Paul

1958 Corvette won the 1969 US Nationals, then sat for over 50 years until hot rodder Kenny Davis connected with the family, and after decades of friendship, bought it and is bringing it to SEMA with Ebay Motors

In the late 1980s, Kenny Davis worked at the parts counter of an Arkansas Chevrolet dealership. That’s where he met Richard Lasner, a regular customer with a bunch of hot rods. Lasner had a proclivity for buying Chevy speed parts—and had an NHRA Nationals winning ’58 Corvette Gasser tucked away in the garage with a 302, Hunt mag, Muncie 4 speed, and moon tank

Converted to a race car it won its class at the 1969 U.S. Nats, only to be essentially retired the next year when the Lasners moved to Arkansas in 1970 and just parked the car

Davis, now the owner of four collision repair centers and a hot rod shop in Northwest Arkansas, and Lasner, a gunsmith who moved from Buffalo, NY., bonded over their love of drag racing. Naturally, they became fast friends. In 1990, Lasner showed his Corvette Gasser to Davis and shared its history. Fifteen years after the two men first met, Davis ran into a guy named Eric Lasner and they formed a friendship. But Davis didn’t know that Eric was Kenny’s son.

Then, the junior Lasner told Davis about his dad’s Corvette. As Eric described the car and where it was parked, Lasner realized that he knew the car.  The ‘Vette had not been on the road for decades. So Eric was shocked when Davis said he knew Eric’s father and his race-winning Corvette gasser.

The bond between the families was re-united. A few years later, when Richard Lasner passed away, Eric asked Davis to move the Corvette from the family garage to Davis’s shop for safekeeping

When they brought the car back to Davis’s shop, the rear slicks were flat, the battery was junked, and the car had no fuel. They fueled it up and put in a new battery.

“Having been around race cars for so long, I knew how to start up the Corvette’s eight-stack Hilborn mechanical fuel injection system. It took me about three minutes.”

Davis purchased the car from the Lasner family with the promise to keep the Corvette Gasser the way it is, as caretakers of the car and its history.

https://www.ebay.com/motors/blog/partsofamerica

https://www.ebay.com/motors/blog/partsofamerica-corvettegasser/

https://www.bgdailynews.com/news/cruisin-for-a-cure-gets-boost-from-ebay-tour/article_7f3172a6-710c-5902-ac1b-de6865733f14.html

 ---------- Original Message ---------- From: PAUL LASNER To: "jbohjkl@yahoo.com" Date: 08/06/2023 6:20 PM PDT Subject: Rick Lasner's 58 corvette 

 Hello....I received a posting describing the 58 corvette previously owned by my brother, Rick Lasner. I know every inch of that car. I raced with my brother, including in 1969 at the NHRA Nationals and often at Niagra in Buffalo among other tracks. The first time the car was raced was at Canadaigua Speedway in Canandaigua New York on a 1\4 mile strip that was 1\2 dirt (part of the dirt circular track). Nasty. The car was stock. The car never had a roll bar until we arrived at the track in Indiainapolis and were told we had to add one to comply. we cut the hole and welded it up on then spot. There is (was) a deep gouge in the fiberglass on the bottom right rear quarter where the follow car I was driving slipped off the push bar as we approached staging at the Nationals. I believe those runs were the last time the car ever raced. There are a few errors in your posting. The car was never a gasser. I believe we mostly raced in C Gas. When raced the motor was never a 302. Jess Halen Engines in Rochester NY built the last motor, the one we raced at the Nationals and my recollection is that it was a bored 327. Also, we didn't win any races at the 1969 Nationals. No trophies. The injectors had just been installed and we couldn't get them properly jetted. the car kept breaking up at high RPM's. We came home with nothing....but it was fun. Paul Lasner

On Monday, August 7, 2023 at 12:28:33 PM PDT, PAUL LASNER wrote: 

A couple corrections and a bit more information in the interest of getting the history correct: Throughout most of the car's history on the track it was in a modified production class (B/MP?) if memory serves. Its transition to (C/G?) happened in about1968 when the tubular axel, the new Halen-built engine and the Hillborn injectors were added. In this configuration the car did not see much time on the track prior to The Nationals. I was incorrect in stating that the car had no rollbar prior to the 1969 Nationals. I think I was confused by the photo in your piece. The original rollbar was a more simple affair than what is on it now. Originally, it was U-shaped with no brace behind the driver. It did not meet NHRA regs and we had to add the bracing. I hope this helps. Paul

64 Rambler gasser is pretty sweet, except for the wide brown hood and trunk stripe

 

https://www.racingjunk.com/AMC/184362392/1964-American-Motors-Rambler.html#7

Mopar's Spring Fling show had some cool stuff!

I don't remember seeing a Dart gasser until this one

 

https://www.motortrend.com/events/spring-fling-mopar-car-show-2022

FINALLY! A reason to get a Hot Rod magazine! They featured Brendon's 55`

great location shoot!

https://www.motortrend.com/features/1955-chevy-gasser-hot-wheels-designer

Back in 2018, his Firebird was featured on the cover of Car Craft! https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/07/brendons-firebird-made-cover-of-car.html