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 ...

To keep these single-purpose machines from trouncing the dual-duty competitors, the rule makers divided race categories into Street and Competition, with street cars restricted to gasoline, and the ...

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 ...

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 ...