We have just as much fun with our 4 doors at the track as those with only 2 doors...and i didnt pay 2 door price for to start off with! I say build it and enjoy it!!
Here is a 65 Comet 4 door gasser, it has run a best of 12.54 @ 108 with a 289 engine. There is a new 302 going together for it because we lost the 289 in a big way so we hope to run low 12's to high 11's on the new engine. Jon
Hell yes man , Itll be a 57 chevy with an axle up front , you CANT make that car ugly , lol . Let er rip tater chip.
If it's quick enough no one will even notice the rear door handles......... And if they do, tough shit... Build it, build it quick, and have fun
More than a few tri five four doors in the album below. Approaching 5,000 tri five gassers in one place...
more, we dont care if its a 2 door, 4 door, 5 dooor, its wat we had and its jsut getting faster and faster... "No Mater what u got,..Fast is Fast!!"
as above doesnt matter how many doors it has just so long as the front two are in front of the sucker in the lane beside you.
I've seen both The Renteria Brothers Valiant, and the Voodoo Customs car run at Bakersfield. Didnt notice the doorhandles as they blew past me. I prefer 2 door cars, but love em all.
Somebody ran a black '55 Chevy 4 door gasser at Atco in the mid '60s. I don't recall if it had a straight axle, but it sat high and had radiused wheelwells.
Jr Thompson had a couple four door gassers. He was the '59 B/G champion racing he and his brother's '41 Studebaker. Later he and his son Tommy would campaign a blown Hemi powered Prefect. Steve Woods was racing a BB/G Prefect long before Jr Thompson bought his own car from Chuck Finders.
Wish I had kept any pictures. My first gasser was a '57 Chevy Belair 4 door with a straight axle, and built 283, back in 1966. Back then we figured why screw up a nice 2 door by tearing it up, and racing it.
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