In ancient times, soon after the last triceratops sank into the primordial ooze, but before air bags and satellite radio, gassers ruled the Earth. Fueled by gasoline instead of nitro, they howled ...

The term "Gasser" is pretty common, but the name has been dragged through the mud for many years, and it's becoming less and less clear, as the real drag racers from the '60s begin to fade away. It's ...

National Tri-Five Chevy Week (which we invented yesterday) continues with this gallery of great 1955, 1956, and 1957 Chevy Gassers from the Danchuk Tri-Five Nationals at Beech Bend Raceway Park in ...

Moonshine, country music, and auto racing—Maynardville is a Tennessee snapshot nestled in the Ridge and Valley region of the Appalachians. Raccoon Valley, to be exact. The county seat of Union County, ...

Modern dragsters are cool and all, but nothing beats a quarter-mile duel between two old-school gassers. Meet "Moonbeam" and "Sour Grape," two traditional gassers based on a 1965 Ford Ranchero and a ...

The glory days of drag racing are often carved into the decade of the 1960’s, although plenty of monumental moments happened before and after that 10-year span. The gasser wars of the 1960’s are still ...

They’re made to go fast, some fast enough to drag race, and they aren’t made of lots of random parts, like a rat rod. The 50-year-old from Blissfield, Michigan, brought two Chevy Bel Airs, a 1955 and ...

The drag racing scene is more diverse than it ever was nowadays. From funny cars that cover the quarter-mile quicker than you can say "Chevrolet Camaro" to no-nonsense "no-prep" racers, there's ...

Among the most popular Gasser body styles were Willys models, specifically the '33 and the '40 coupe. Today, some of their drivers (such as Big John Mazmanian; Stone, Woods, & Cook; and K.S. Pittman) ...