Great video !! I was a single Dad fighting heart disease and showed my kids how to build gassers. We built a 40 Ford couple I'd gotten in1970 when I came home from the Marines and ran it street racing in 2012. My son now works on monstrous Cat equipped and my daughter works on F-18 fighters. I'm proud to be their Dad ! I'm thankful to be alive and still building street rods/ drag cars. Keep the videos coming !
I love this era ! Gassers , super Stock , midified , & early pro stock. Stick vehicles are true racers ! Anyone can sit back & drive an automatic , but , w/a stick , it's time to go to work & make money ! Young or old , stick IS the most impressive in the sport. Thank you for sharing. 🏁
Went to Mooresville,Leezers,in the 60s,saw Rabbit Baby Henry J ,and Wild Red Cosmopolitan,along with Carolina Twister Coronet,Blue Angel Anglia,Melvin Lancaster's 55,Pure Satisfaction.Great shows back then,just a kid older brother raced a pink/gray 55.Really enjoy South East Gassers today Keep up the good work!
Southeast Gassers - in about 2 months I've gone to nearly 4 years of Gasser drag racing... watched some of the youtube videos 5 or 6 times! As good as it gets! WillyB
Retracing stepps, stumbled upon this video again. After a couple years of following SEGassers I appreciate this video and these men who race these wonderful cars even more.. Quain Stott followed his heart, stuck to his guns and pushed past those who tried to sway him from the dream of bringing back period correct race cars. A few of his friends joined in, supported him and now we have a resurgence of one of the most FUN for the spectator drag racing on the planet. Good on ya SE Gassers!!
John I'm a year late responding but I just seen your comment. Thanks so much for your kind words and thanks for the long time support. It has been the road least traveled for sure but it has now payed off and we have enjoyed proving all the haters wrong along the way. ~Quain Stott~
Gassers forever! Like the others who have posted their thoughts, I'm old school (70yrs old), remember the days of Grumpy, Don an so many others like it was yesterday. Love your videos and of course RU-vid for allowing us a chance to go back to a day long ago gone by,
Love the old time gassers. In the late 60s I built a 34 Ford 5-window Coupe, raised up in front with straight axle and VW tires. It had a 327 SBC with Corvette heads and solid lifter cam and only one AFB 4-barrel carb. I could not afford much because I was going to College at the time. I raced in C/Gas class and had a ball. Heads up racing was a blast....!!!.
Someday I will tour the tracks and meet some of you piston heads,Love this shit and headed out now to Eagle Field runway drags to try and not break on the first day.
WOW...by far, the coolest shot is the in-car at around 4:20. You can see the reflection of opponent's car door-handle-to-door-handle for the entire run, right thru the traps...they were locked together....very cool!
Thank you Quain and Donavan Stott - Greg Porter -Dale Wilson and Mr.Cromer these are just regular folks ,they are my real hero's they bring back memories of my Dad in his 49 Ford y'all go see the South East Gassers best show and all these guys will talk to you tell you all about their cars and just hang out as Big Daddy Dale Wilson says ( its as real as it gets)
We where there at Greer and some of the best racing I have seen in a long time! We had a blast, like old times and these Guys can drive and shift a 4 speed.
Great video! I only really found out about Gassers fairly recently, at first I thought they looked too tall and weird but when I found out WHY they were built like that I got it and they grew on me. Love the no-fucks-given attitude of them now and can totally understand wanting to keep racing with the old tech (with modern nods to safety cages I'm glad to see lol) to maintain the unpredictabilty which usually equals excitement and fun.
Now THIS is the way drag racing SHOULD BE! Pedal to the metal, no break out, no electronics and manual transmissions! I LOVE IT!!!!! I ran an E/Gas 57 Chevy until the drag strips went to bracket racing and automatic transmissions! Standing on the brakes before the finish line is not my idea of racing! I hope this "gasser style" racing keeps growing and growing!
I remember the Muncie 4 speed was supposed to have been the bullet proof transmission back in those days. Scatter shield a must because of clutch explosions. That happened in one of my 55's .
OK, the set up: First time you rolled out to the street, first time you know that you put it together, and it's right! Your first attempt to apply all you know and have learned. So you stop along a spot you know to be pretty open this time of day, and you're ready. You blipp it, bring up on the foot brake, and stab it, hold it to second gear, into second and you have just experienced what you, and no one else, will be able to understand what just happened. Sit back and relive that moment, you deserve it because you never forget it. It is the same for you as it was for people named Garlits, Force, Jenkins. Don't ever let that go, get that grin on your face every once in a while, it's just for you.
I thank the gasers for bringing my drag strip back to life for a wile at least. My strip was and still is a run down scam place ran by drug heads and I'm not saying the name of this strip but it was one of the best till around the end of 2014 and drug head scammers took it over and the gasers came back and brought this strip back for a few weeks even tho they stayed for 2 days. So thanks to the gasers for keeping my strip alive. I would love to lease it just to bring it back cause the cars we get are old and new and they are not new day funny cars nor now day rails they are 6 second mustangs with Chevys 7 second firebirds 10second trucks 6 second diesel twin turbo doge trucks and JR rails and this strip has the best pits and has never had any kind of restrictions to anywhere I mean if they are not about to run you can walk out onto the track and every one is so friendly it's just like you have known them for a lifetime. So thank you gasers for keeping this over 50 year old track alive for now hopefully I'll some how get the money to lease it and bring it back.
No turbo chargers here folks! Old school rocks! ✌️
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Dont delude yourself there were twin turbo gassers back then too!! the malco ford comes to mind insane looking thing man!! the best class next to a/fd and a/fx
love all that you do Quain. hope to make it down for a race this year to watch and meet everybody. i live waaaaaay up here in washington state but love what ya do! exactly how id build one!
Ran a C/G '55 Chevy in the late 60's and never saw anyone running a tunnel ram and carburetors. What happened to period correct fuel injection. No one knows how to tune them anymore??
If you show up to the races. They aren't peddling NOTHING!!!. No need to? No break out!!. Fast time in next round gets lane choice. No reason to back peddle???..
+jim mostly the southeast but we do drift away to other parts of the country when the money is right. We will be in Union Sc May 14th , then on to Knoxville Tenn May 28th, then to Montgomery Al June 11th. We have 2 clases A/G and C/G with at least 16 cars in each most of the time.
+Quain Stott ,,,Thx.for gettin back to me.This is so much a part of drag racing.I grew up watching these cars.Kil Kare drag strip.Late 50's till 1973.I would like to come see you all run.
+jim We are trying our best to keep the cars as close as possible to the way they were in the mid 60s.Our rules are very strict on era correctness and we do really race, it's not just a show and it's first car to the finish line wins. There are several other video's on line some are on my youtube page, it's in my name Quain Stott. As a matter of fact there is a 30 minute one coming out tomorrow on my page. Stay in touch and we will get you to a race in the future. Oh yea I just read an article on Kil Kare the other day.
@@topp352 Hope you find this response since it has been 3 years. I noticed you said you raced at Kilkare back in the day and would like to see the SEGA. We will be at Kilkare for the first time ever September 12th 2020.
+Bill we look forward to having you. We will be in Union SC May 14th, then Knoxville Tenn May 28th, then on to Montgomery Al June 11th. Our web site is southeastgassers.com for all of the race dates.
+Quain Stott hello Quain. How many cars you expecting to be at Montgomery Alabama this weekend? I'm showing up. I'm hoping to get lots of photos. Thanks!
Bill we have 24 pre entered right now. I'm thinking a few more will before the end of the week but I can't promise. I think it's going to be a good show, The ones that are coming are the best of the bunch. I'm getting there Friday and might make a test pass Friday night. We start qualifying Saturday at around 4 o'clock but the race won't start until about 6:30 o so.
Working on that now Unicycle master. We have 2 that run with us some now and hope to add them to every event next year. We only have the 2 that that fit the era right now.
old gasser racing had different classes to even out the feild depending on weight , engine size, horse power, and type of fuel used. look it up. learn some history
The only things that should ever be modern on a Gasser is the roll cage, brakes if it's a street machine. Why build to such a fundamentally flawed spec if you're not doing it to keep the old gear running?
