Hard to tell from this angle, but blue mav appears to have a better takeoff, and a little more lift... I am sure glad I asked for more pics Thanks guys.
A couple of my photo's.......The Stevens & Lincke B/SM at Bakerfield '76 or '77:confused: and an unknown MAV at Fresno (California) Dragways early '70s.
Anyone who has not hit on his My Cars link is missing out on some sweet rides.....very impressive Jody. Love your website. Great racing pics too. Don
That is really a cool look at old cars, but I have a 2 questions, i've always wnated to know What are "Gassers" And why the real tall front suspensions? Seems opposite of what you'd want, i've built models of cars like these, but i never have understood why they ride so high in the front??
The reason they had the front ends so high was for wieght transfer to the rear wheels. I have my thoughts on how they became "Gassers" but no facts
thanks Don. I don't have those cars anymore, and the ones I do own have not been added yet to the site. I am in the middle of a complete website re-do. Thanks for the nice words. Jody
great pictures from a great u.s. pastime those were the days! very fast! simple and borderline dangerous!
In the early 60's NHRA banned nitromethane as a fuel. To be legal in a NHRA sanctioned event you had to run gas, so NHRA legal cars were called Gassers. There were modified classes also called Gas classes, for example AA/GS, BB/GS, etc. Nitro was still used at match races and at other sactioning body events,the old AHRA for one, may have been others. After the fuel ban was lifted, most of the gas modifieds started using nitro, and so did the A/FX cars, the factory "experimental" cars that became todays funny cars.
Yeah Man! Thats what I'm talking about. Gone are the days of smoking tires all the way down the track. My favorite memories, as a kid, was my Dad taking me to the dragstrip. when I got old enough to drive I went every wed. & fri. Till I got MARRIED.
