Hot Rods Oddball Gassers, Altereds and Streetfreaks.

Indy 1973 / Thompson, Ohio 2007

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Nuts!!! That thing's an accident waiting to happen......and/or (also) maybe the result of one that already did!!!

mart
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I have that Valiant on other boards and web sites. Anybody have any info on it? Other pics?

Marty

 

This gives substance to the term "Go Big or Go Home".

 

What a great thread! The best I've seen on here yet!

 

Yeh- I know..

1980

p.s; E.J. Potter... YYYESSS !!!

 

Here's a few more. These are from the September '66 Australian Hot Rodding Review.

1- The Midvale VW altered. VW power in usual place with big driver setback & radical f/r wight ratio
2- This lil' beauty is a shortened (14" ) aussie four door sedan. Len Shaw reported on this car owned & built by Stan Baroutsis. Stan emigrated to Melbourne Australia from Baghdad in '56. He wanted to build a top custom rod and he picked this one- owner model C ride as his target. Hot Y- block/ Jaguar 4 speed/ Olds coil rear- high 14's @ 90 something mph.
Dig the black & white vinyl, Beechey mag wheels and gold & black paint. Neat huh ?

 

found this one on hemming site

 

heres the mock-up of my project -

 

If he had giant nuts He would had drug them off on the firtst pass!

 

Gene Heidorn's southern Indiana altered wheelbase Crown Vic with high-rise 427 power circa 1965.

 

What year/model Volvo is it? I just have a very evil thought form in my demented noggin'!

 

Oddball..... no..... INSANE.... YES!!!!! My god, how many passes til he needed an ass transplant???

 

First thing to my mind was no driver

 

Check the "Drag cars in motion thread"...
His name, if I am not mistaken was Red, and he, in fact, died in the car.

 

Think its a 1952-53 Volvo 444

 

Heres a few I found...

 

..more freaks...mainly dragcars, but man, the 60's and 70's had lots of them!!

 

..and a few more...

 

...and more drag freaks!!

 

....and yet more...

 

...yep,,,,more!!

 

....jeez...lots of them. But they're all so cool!!

 

....more

 

thank you motorhead711 for the exceptional photos

 

This Volvo is a prime example of my theory that every car (almost every car) can be built successfully if done from a vision or w/ plain good taste. Call it traditional? thats a whole diffrent argument.
A few British classics and not so classics...
Then if i can just say a word about the Thames high riding van. i've seen it runnin at the pod in '03, just when this pics where taken, not by me, and its amazing to watch, w/ its sideways burnouts e overall shakey runs,thats were the real fun is. A winner in my book. Does anybody know if its still around and if still racing?

 

And now for some U.S. freaks.
Im surprised nobody posted this vette already!
Ooh, did i say that this thread rules?

 

And of course the ODD Austin, another one that shoulda been here already.
Then i added the original Ramchargers Plymouth w/ some info to go w/, the rest is nowadays Gasser Circus Extraoridaire!!

 

The first pic in this batch is Alleycat probably the first Thames panel built into a drag car back in the early '70's, it was Jaguar powered and quite a sensation at the time. Unfortunately it came off the trailer and was wrecked.

The Thames panel van is owned by long time van guy Joe Darton, he's owned that van over 30 yrs, as a stocker, as a custom van during the van craze and then as the gasser truck in the pics, he's never ever painted it.
He still owns it but its been parked up the last few years.

L.P.

 

there were Thames Panels being raced as Gassers over here in the 1960'S