Hot Rods Oddball Gassers, Altereds and Streetfreaks.

November '77, I had just started 10th grade. I remember this issue's cover and in those days the van craze had badly infected Hot Rod for several years. When covers like this one started happening I knew all would be well in the world now that the van craze was dying down. Street Freaks! I used to cut class (a lot) and go to the school library and check out Hot Rod magazines.

 

Ted Kramer's "Snoopy" Altered -- unusual for its injected Y-block! -- and calliope exhaust! -- and that he regularly beat SBC's with it!

 

Man, this is a cool thread. Love them gassers! Here's one that used to belong to a guy in our club (Norm) and I think now belongs to 'Spanky' of the Hooligans in Killeen, TX.

 

HELL NO!! leave it alone.....heres a 56 I should have home soon

 

HOLY SHIT! PLEASE, someone tell me all about this one. Looks like a couple 2-stroke bike engines

 

Just registered with with you guys so bear with my first time.
Late 50's Hillman Husky Gasser.
California issued VIN.
Lettered Horn's Body and Paint Lennox, Cal
Straight front axle.
Pontiac or Olds rear end.
Rect. tube frame from rear spring pockets foreward.
Wheelie casters mounted where rear bumper mounts.
Judging by the bent frame the car used them.
No motor or trans.
DOES ANYONE KNOW THIS CAR? Thanks

 

Wow! Check out the suicide spring mount! Now that's a suicidal mount!

 

Two Kawasaki Mach III engines??

 

Here back in the day at the Old Mohawk Drag Strip in its final days as use as a drag strip is Stu Denyes driving the slant 6 powered altered. On the side is Power Tune UP. That was my company. The car was originaly mine but I never finished it. Stu did. It is the same car and the same guy I partnered with for the slant 6 turbo deal (pic below) but this is after it was painted and Stu had returned the turbo deal to me and asked for a 225 Slant Six on natural air. Motor is a 225 +.060". Pistons were TRW FORGED replacement which they used to make. Block and head had over .070 removed (from each) Modified 360 SB Mopar velves were reworked and installed . Head was ported. Intake was an Offy 4 BBl with a 600 cfm Holley single pump vacuum secondary. Cam was an isky 550 legeurra grind. (Engine is still around somewhere in Trenton, Ontario and is still good. )Trans was a 64 valiant auto with PUSHBUTTON shifter. Diff and front axle were salvaged from the Belleville Road angels old driveshaft dragster. Front end was Thames (anglia van) and rear was a narrowed 8 3/4 with 4.56s Car ran mostly 12.05 12.03s and occasionally would run an 11.90 something. This car won an awful lot of money in its day, $100 at a time. Stu despite his coke bottle glasses he wore back then, was almost unbeatable on the lights. Attn Rick Proctor.ONDR. This is Chris' car in its heyday before it was modernized.
Don
PS Stu's first cousin is Phil Denyes who oversaw the vistors centre build and development of the Daytona facilty that greets your eye when you go to the Daytona track. .

 

NO but speakin for alotta guys here.get that bitch back on the street

 

Here are a few of my Dad's cars from the past.

 

Looks like some snowmobile engines, That looks like the belt driver torque converters on the side there. Looks like fun!

 

This would be a cool one to make into a gasser

 

I love this ALFA! MMMM gives me ideas!!!!

 

The Frantic 3

 

Here's a cool one that had a flip front end. Unusual to see a '58.




and this one:

 

A few more:

 

Don;
Unfortunately Chris smacked the wall at Cayuga with the car ,and has built yet another bantam roadster..
I don't know how much of the chassis was replaced ,but the body suffered a lot of damage.

Rick

 

this belongs to a guy couple blocks away

 

There was supposed to be an Allard JR running in drag racing maybe '60s Would love to see a picture of that.....!
Anybody got any pix of it, or any other Allards running at the drags?

 

This is what happens when you save too many parts, sooner or later you throw then together and this is what you get.

 

I really like that. I guess I've always been partial to cragars.

 

What would you call mine?

 

Thats easy........KOOL!

 

I got to say I'm reallly enjoying this thread. It's definitely giving me alot of ideas. Here just a couple of oddballs I shot the NHRR last year. The TOPO is all steal and he drives it all the time. Gets 30 mpg with a Pinto drive train. That and the Volvo gasser is something you don't see every day.

 

anybody knows any info on this deal. talk about a shoehorn job!!!

 

That is very badass...Corvairs make cool looking gassers.

 

I can never get enough of this stuff. Keep it coming guy's.