Probably not. I guess if you were building a period perfect like an E class gasser it would be worth the trouble. So you got yourself a ??? and you plane on building it with the original inline?
There's still some out there. The original "Mad Frenchman" gasser is alive and well, a Ford inline, up in the northeast somewhere, I think. Really, most of the cars that run the /6 challenge would be considered gassers. While most everyone here thinks that to be a gasser it has to be nose high and straight axled, that is not true, and I still maintain that the vast majority of cars running the gas classes back in the day were niether nose high or straight axled. Most of the magazine pictures were though, hence the misconception.
Not Chevy-powered, but here's a pic from 'back in the day' - circa late-60's - early-70's of the Rydell, Hope & Lang 6 cylinder Ford powered G/Gas Anglia - "Mr. Crude". The car ran an injected 300 inch inline Ford, with a pair of cut and welded 351 Cleveland V8 heads grafted on. Mart3406 ========================
A search on here would bring up a 4 page thread on "Six Cylinder Drag Car Photos", such as Tom Langdon's Holeshot 6. Later, Kinky6
Rydell also ran this Chevy Coupe back in the day, powered by a Chevy 292 six (I believe). Wes Rydell still has the cylinder head, intake, and carbs from that car hanging on the wall of his shop in Grand Forks. They took two heads, cut one cylinder off and welded them back together. With 3 down draft Weber's, it was a pretty neat setup.
Originally Posted by mart3406 Not Chevy-powered, but here's a pic from 'back in the day' - circa late-60's - early-70's of the Rydell, Hope & Lang 6 cylinder Ford powered G/Gas Anglia - "Mr. Crude". The car ran an injected 300 inch inline Ford, with a pair of cut and welded 351 Cleveland V8 heads grafted on. No hope lang and rydell ran a 292 chevy with two aluminum V8 heads welded together. An concept explored by mr Raunsley at Centennial College automotive dept in the 70s. Don
Not really a gasser, it runs in Comp Eliminator. Probably the baddest 6 cylinder car in the world would go to Harrison Lougheed Racing out of Vancouver British Columbia Canada. These guys have spent years developing a 6 cylinder to run in the 7's at 170 MPH. www.inlinesix.com These Guys have named the engine IGOR, after several hundred dyno pulls and countless $$$$$$$$$. I'm always amazed to see them run. We've won against them and we've lost against them, my hat's off to Rob and the gang.
Look through this thread here: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18390&highlight=inline Should be some drag/gasser stuff in there somewhere...
-------------- Thanks for that Don. I'll definitely take your word on this as authority. My 'gut feeling', based on my faded memory of the time about the Rydall, Hope & Lang car, was that they ran a 292 Chevy with a cut and welded SBC V8-based head grafted on, too, but I recently read some misinformation on the net that stated the car was Ford-powered and used a modified Cleveland V8 style head. Thanks for setting the record straight. Speaking of misinformation on "R,H&L" - this from 'back in day'. One of their sponsors was a battery company (Exide perhaps??) and I remember a battery ad in one the major car mags back then, that made a big deal how "R,H&L" didn't run an alternator and depended solely on this particular brand of battery to power their ignition. All fine and good....except "R,H&L" used a Vertex mag - which was clearly visible in the ad too - and the battery they used, only function was, as ballast and to spin the starter and had nothing to do with powering the ignition! So much for 'truth in advertising' and 'non-automotive savvy' ad writers! LOL Mart3406 ==================
Not quite all out gassers, but both of these cars were running Chevy 6's at Brainerd this summer. The orange Chevy was runing a 320 ci GMC, I am not sure what powered the other though.
From what I know (and that's not alot) they ran both CHEVY and FORD set-ups starting with the CHEVY late 60's ending with the FORD in the mid 70's...
I have been getting parts together to do another Straight axle Falcon with a Ford inline 6 300. I thought it would be fun to have something different, and there are some neat things you can do with a 300 now. Jon
A local guy that was fun to talk to. He went to Indy every labor day for many many years. I met him after he retired it from racing. He redid it in the 70s with a SBC and it was one of the cleanest 39 Chevy coupes at the local rodruns (they were called rodruns back then) Notice it had current tags and was driven to the track.
what kind of times are these cars running? I remember in the 60's Mickey Thompson ran 2 4 cyl, tempest powered dragsters, one blown, one injected & i think he was turning in the low 9's-high 8's with them! pretty impressive, even by todays standards jimV
Harry Peaper was a nice fellow and hot-rodder to the end. You're right , Tommy, it was one of the nicest '39 Chevy Coupes around.
More on Rydell, Hope and Lang. In 1967 NHRA allowed any style cylinder head in the gas class, so the team cut one combustion chamber from each Corvette F.I. head, welded the two together and mounted it on a 292 cu.in. block. The car ran both G/Gas and H/Gas depending on the weight break rules. They re-set the H/Gas 11.15 national record at the Windsor Ontario points meet in 1968 at 10.79, won the "Best Engineered" award at the 69 Spring Nats and later won Modified Eliminator at the Dallas Spring Nationals in 1970. Second photo is Wes Rydell, third is Wayne Lang and forth is Ralph Hope. I also included the Willard Juice Box ad mentioned earlier in the thread. This Chevy combination was put into a G/Gas Vega for the 1971 season. Ralph Hope later went on with a series of Ford 6 cylinder Altereds.
Harry's car was named "Little Jewel" I believe he lived in Hillside, Md. or District Heights. Bob Bernarden and Rufus Boswell all ran at Aquasco dragway back in the early sixty's. They were members of the Gear Grinders car club.