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Now, Hot Wheels is giving a hat tip to those iconic dragsters with this new ’55 Chevy Bel Air Gasser toy model. Recently announced via social media, the new Hot Wheels ’55 Chevy Bel Air Gasser ...
Hot Wheels is bringing back the ’55 Chevy Bel Air Gasser drag racer known as Candy Striper, or at least it will if fans unlock the model in a new crowdfunding effort. The toymaker produced 4,000 ...
We are chuggin' right along on the buildup of the '55. The floor replacement is complete ... Before the car comes back to the HOT ROD shop for the Hemi install and rollcage, Hot Rods And' Hobbies ...
It’s unbearably hot at the aptly ... a gassed-up ’55 Chevy, complete with straight-axle, piloted by South Carolinian Greg Porter. You can tell this Bel Air is no newbie on the block; it ...
Tony Vestuto resembles a movie character who mobs around town in a tow truck Monday through Friday and does angry, block-long burnouts in a hopped-up hot rod on weekends. Heisthat guy. He's an ...
If there's one Hot Wheels casting that has successfully straddled both generational waves of serious collectors, the '55 Chevy Bel Air Gasser has the zeitgeist in a rare Hot Wheels stranglehold.
When gasser style cars started appearing at drag strips in the late 50s, they were like nothing anyone had ever seen. They were stripped down hot rods ... 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air, which is ...
And I'm not talking about a nostalgia gasser, but a full-blown outlaw-class racer. With them big blowers, pipes, and rear fender wings. The heavily chopped Bel Air ... real-life Hot Wheels car ...
Carpenter turned the ugly-duckling, 1955 Chevy Bel Air into a chromed "gasser" — a straight axle, high-sitting hot rod meant for flat-out racing — in about a year. "It's loud as loud can be ...
The term “Gasser ... Hot Wheels judges that selected the P1800 as the UK finalist. The lineup of potential winners already includes several gassers, one based on a 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air.
“This is a beautiful example of a gasser ... hits the Hot Wheels brief.” Hot Wheels has already released several gassers, including one based on a 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air.
Hot Wheels has announced the winner of the 2021 Legends Tour: it’s a 1969 Volvo P1800 gasser owned by England-based Lee Johnstone. Built from a bare shell, the V8-powered hot rod will join the ...