When Tinley Park, Illinois, resident Dave VerSchave sold his 1966 Nova—featured in HOT ROD (Dec. 1994 issue)—he started to search for a car that he built in his head as a kid after watching the movie ...
Originating on the drag strips across the nation back in the late 1950s, the gassers quickly became the fastest stock(ish)-looking hot rods in the days before the arrival of the Pro Stock class. They ...
The term "gasser" is a riff on the NHRA's historical "gas" classes. (Read "Anatomy of a Gasser" here.) Long before bracket racing, and before Stock Eliminator/Super Stock index racing, the gas classes ...