The straight-axle frontend, metalflake bronze and gold paint, narrowed front grille, and small front wheels and wide magnesium rear wheels gave away the formula of a vintage Corvette gasser.

Big John's Vette was capably driven by notableCalifornia Gasser pilot "Bones" Balough and later by Mazmanian's nephew,Rich Siroonian. The car earned a national reputation for "bad" as wellas a ...

Most people see a straight-axle under the front of a retro drag car and immediately think "Gasser." However ... weight advantages plus, in the Corvette's case, a favorable engine setback.

What might be one man’s trash is another’s treasure, especially when it comes to this C2 Corvette. The 1965 was a “basket ...

Richard Corbitt of Yorba Linda, California, is a life-long Chevy fan (as a kid he watched gassers race at Lions ... with boxed framerails while an '88 Corvette with only 900 miles registered ...

He also finds the hotrodder whose shop put the axles under these cars and gets a nuts-n-bolts lesson on how a gasser was built for the street when everything was built, not bought. Hemmings.com is ...