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2022 Hot Wheels Legends Tour Is in Full Swing, Big Winner Yet to Be Chosen
2022 Hot Wheels Legends Tour Is in Full Swing, Big Winner Yet to Be Chosen

23 Jun 2022, 20:52 UTC · By: Dragos Chitulescu / The Hot Wheels Legends Tour is your chance of turning your car into a diecast legend! Have a look at some of the cool cars that gave it a shot this year!

 
1965 Chevrolet C10 Gasser Is a Cool Tribute to the 1960s, Packs 1,000 Horsepower
1965 Chevrolet C10 Gasser Is a Cool Tribute to the 1960s, Packs 1,000 Horsepower

27 Apr 2022, 10:59 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Yup, this thing is a full-blown tribute to the 1960s gasser era and flexes all the good stuff, including a jacked-up front end

 
Chevy Flying Monkey Gasser Will Never Race on a Real Drag Strip, Sadly
Chevy Flying Monkey Gasser Will Never Race on a Real Drag Strip, Sadly

22 Mar 2022, 13:12 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A Hot Wheels Chevrolet gasser gets even more in touch with its drag racing self thanks to custom work performed by Jakarta Diecast Project

 
Historic Ford Anglia Gasser Discovered After 50 Years in Hiding, Still in One Piece
Historic Ford Anglia Gasser Discovered After 50 Years in Hiding, Still in One Piece

17 Mar 2022, 13:10 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / A mundane, small family car when it left the factory, this Ford Anglia was transformed into an artsy gasser sometime in the 1960s

 
1956 Chevrolet Bel Air "Panama Red" Is a Piece of Drag Racing History, Up for Sale
1956 Chevrolet Bel Air "Panama Red" Is a Piece of Drag Racing History, Up for Sale

25 Feb 2022, 20:39 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Turned into a gasser in 1961, this Chevy Bel Air spent no fewer than 20 years at the drag strip. It's still in one piece and looking for a new home

 
1956 Chevrolet Tri-Five Is a Green, Mean Drag Racing Machine
1956 Chevrolet Tri-Five Is a Green, Mean Drag Racing Machine

23 Dec 2021, 13:20 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The two-door 210 may still feature all of its original chrome trim, but it hides a hot-rodded, 450-horsepower V8 engine under the hood

 
Historic 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air Gasser Found in a Warehouse, It's Been Sitting for Decades
Historic 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air Gasser Found in a Warehouse, It's Been Sitting for Decades

29 Nov 2021, 15:06 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / This Bel Air used to charge down the quarter-mile as a gasser in the D/Gas category back in the 1960s, but it hasn't seen the drag strip in almost 50 years

 
A Classic Gasser Volvo P1800 Added to the Hot Wheels Legends Tour
A Classic Gasser Volvo P1800 Added to the Hot Wheels Legends Tour

16 Oct 2021, 01:44 UTC · By: Todd Halterman / The term “Gasser” is a reference to a style of drag car that was popular in the late 1950s through the 1960s that ran on gasoline as fuel rather than nitro mix

 
1955 Chevrolet 150 Gasser Is Ready to Rumble, Also Road Legal
1955 Chevrolet 150 Gasser Is Ready to Rumble, Also Road Legal

10 Sep 2021, 20:44 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / While I prefer the fancied-up Bel Air to the bare-bones 150, this is one instance in which the entry-level model is the better alternative

 
1957 Chevrolet Bel Air Has a Mysterious Racing Past, Hideous Square Headlamps
1957 Chevrolet Bel Air Has a Mysterious Racing Past, Hideous Square Headlamps

27 Aug 2021, 20:24 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Yup, someone went through the trouble of cutting out the area around the stock, round headlamps to make room for rectangular lights. Yuck!

 
Barn Find '57 Chevy “Nickey” Gasser Drags '56 Chevy, Good Days Are Crawling Back
Barn Find '57 Chevy “Nickey” Gasser Drags '56 Chevy, Good Days Are Crawling Back

30 Jul 2021, 07:35 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / This one has a very interesting life story and is now in the possession of a 70-year-old who never drag raced another car in his entire life... until now

 
1959 Ford Anglia Gasser Looks Weird, Flaunts Candy Stripe Interior and 750-HP V8
1959 Ford Anglia Gasser Looks Weird, Flaunts Candy Stripe Interior and 750-HP V8

23 Jul 2021, 13:42 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Essentially an old Anglia body on a race-ready frame, this gasser roars to the tune of 750 horsepower and features a Concours-ready interior

 
1933 Willys Gasser Is Plum Crazy with a Hemi Twist, Costs Porsche 911 GT3 Money
1933 Willys Gasser Is Plum Crazy with a Hemi Twist, Costs Porsche 911 GT3 Money

19 Jul 2021, 20:54 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / This purple-painted 1933 coupe is one of those Willys racers that will turn a lot of heads at the drag strip. And it can be yours for a small fortune

 
1962 Corvette "Sudden Death" Was a True Gasser, Has Had the Same Owner Since '73
1962 Corvette "Sudden Death" Was a True Gasser, Has Had the Same Owner Since '73

19 Jul 2021, 20:12 UTC · By: Dragos Chitulescu / You're looking at one of the most iconic cars ever built in the USA, and it has an interesting backstory to make it even more tempting

 
Rescued 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air Becomes Beat-Up Gasser, Goes Dirt Racing
Rescued 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air Becomes Beat-Up Gasser, Goes Dirt Racing

8 Jul 2021, 13:27 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Sure, this Tri-Five looks all beat up and it doesn't even have an interior, but hey, that's what building rat rods is all about

 
1955 Chevrolet Gasser Comes Out of the Barn, Gets First Wash in 10 Years
1955 Chevrolet Gasser Comes Out of the Barn, Gets First Wash in 10 Years

7 Jul 2021, 09:23 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / This Tri-Five gasser was drag raced until 2010, when it was parked waiting for an engine rebuild. Ignored for a decade, it's about to hit the road again

 
1951 Henry J With 700-HP Blown HEMI Is a Candy Apple Gasser
1951 Henry J With 700-HP Blown HEMI Is a Candy Apple Gasser

3 Jul 2021, 19:17 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / You'd think that a 700-horsepower supercharged V8 in an old car with a 90-inch wheelbase would be impossible to handle, but the owner makes it look easy

 
1962 Chevrolet Corvette Is an Unlikely Gasser, Flexes Meaty Hoosier Tires
1962 Chevrolet Corvette Is an Unlikely Gasser, Flexes Meaty Hoosier Tires

29 Jun 2021, 13:38 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Converted into a full-blown gasser sometime in the 1970s, this Corvette ran quarter-mile sprints until 1984, when it was retired in a heated garage

 
Ford Anglia Gasser Is Wild and Unpredictable, Gets All Four Off the Ground
Ford Anglia Gasser Is Wild and Unpredictable, Gets All Four Off the Ground

2 Jun 2021, 10:06 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The owner made sure to keep the audience entertained with a few long and smoky burnouts and wild off-the-line wheelies, including one with all four wheels up

 
Blown 1940 Willys Gasser Is Pure Eye Candy, Packs More Oomph Than a Hellcat
Blown 1940 Willys Gasser Is Pure Eye Candy, Packs More Oomph Than a Hellcat

24 May 2021, 20:55 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / This is a no-expense-spared build with tremendous attention to detail; it's all candy inside and out plus a mean Hemi V8 under the hood