Why do gassers get a straight axle? As I typed, I think I figured it out. Is it just so it can be raised much higher than stock suspension?
Why a straight axle?
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Ahh...thanks for clarifying
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Shakey sets the bar:
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That car is the ultimate example of the now age gasser, and nothing can still touch it. I still drool over that one, and can’t believe the owner guy sold it. That’s a ‘forever’ car.
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I couldn't agree more on Shakey Puddin. It's about as good as a modern day gasser clone gets. I know if I had owned and built such a car I'd never have sold it.
One of the guys in my car club just bought a '55 gasser this weekend! It's a 427 4 speed car that was built 30 years ago, and the owner passed away. His son finished putting the car back together recently to sell it. It's about as perfect in stance and drivetrain as they get for me. He's planning to change tires, and wheels, but nothing else on it. He already removed the front bumper, which I think helped the look too. Interior is fairly stock except for 60's Chevelle buckets, and a cut down Chevelle back seat.
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One of the guys in my car club just bought a '55 gasser this weekend! It's a 427 4 speed car that was built 30 years ago, and the owner passed away. His son finished putting the car back together recently to sell it. It's about as perfect in stance and drivetrain as they get for me. He's planning to change tires, and wheels, but nothing else on it. He already removed the front bumper, which I think helped the look too. Interior is fairly stock except for 60's Chevelle buckets, and a cut down Chevelle back seat.
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Have had both,Gassers look cool and draw attention but ain't much of a car in regards to actually driving compared to a proper set up car at normal ride height and a proper size front tire. If you want to build a car that looks better then it drives, a gasser is the ticket.
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I'd challenge that. My car drives more or less like a stock 55 because aside from being lifted in the front, it uses stock suspension and steering. I run a 205 tire up front as well. Now straight axle cars are a different matter.
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Challange accepted. 100 bucks says I will stop shorter from 60MPH then you will.
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Nice car. I like your shrunken head. I have on my gasser.One of the things that always caught my attention is that they just looked so damn cool. Two identical cars, one with an axle and one not, the axle car would have me drooling. The other, not so much. At the strip back in those days I would always be hanging around the axle cars....and dreaming of having one on the street. Still am too.
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You're on. I've got 4 wheel power discs with drilled and slotted rotors up front and a proportioning valve for the rear in a lightened car.
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It’s not my car, just a pic I stole off the net as an example. I do have a shrunken head though. Lol
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Cool, I have 8 inches of rubber on the ground with Wilwood 11 inch rotors up front with coil overs on all 4 corners
At one of my customers house they had a thick glass enclosed display cabinet with lots of artifacts, one of them was a real shrunken head. Different for sure, don't see them in the average home.
I wouldn't either. Mine is just a little higher than stock, should have gone more. I suppose I could swap springs a third time, actually a forth time.
I've said before that I wouldn't install a Dakota digital gauge cluster if it was free and I still feel that way. Way too new looking for my taste, and they don't even have a RED Bowtie for the high beam indicator!
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When I was a kid late 60s early 70s, shrunken heads, tiki, big daddy roth, wacky ads, all of that sort of thing was the rage. Heads and skulls on rear view mirrors, stickers, shirts, all over the place. Anyone remember the plastic module you could build of a skull with a German WWI helmet and a pair of john Lennon round yellow tint glasses?
We had neighbors who belonged to one of the local churches. The church ran a two week "vacation bible school" in the summer. They were not particular in any way shape or form as to who attended. They were pretty progressive that way so all of the Presbyterians, Lutherans, Roman Catholics, Methodists, you name it, all the neighborhood kids would attend. My entire neighborhood would attend every summer. Summer after getting out of 7th grade, they had a missionary from Africa in to give a little talk about his work and the people he had encountered. This had to be summer of 73 or 74 I forget now. Pretty interesting stuff, some humorous stories about the indigenous people not knowing that you eat peanut butter as opposed to spreading it around as a sealer, that kind of thing. After he was finished, they dismissed the younger children and the older kids were told they could stick around for a more intimate discussion of his work.
After he finished, lo and behold, out comes a box and darn, if there was not a shrunken head inside. The story was that one of the chiefs or warriors or someone important had taken this head (i did not inquire further on that) in 1959 and gave it to this missionary as a gift of some sort for his missionary efforts. I guess for convincing him to give up his heathen ways, lol. I have never seen another and I never ever forgot that day.
We had neighbors who belonged to one of the local churches. The church ran a two week "vacation bible school" in the summer. They were not particular in any way shape or form as to who attended. They were pretty progressive that way so all of the Presbyterians, Lutherans, Roman Catholics, Methodists, you name it, all the neighborhood kids would attend. My entire neighborhood would attend every summer. Summer after getting out of 7th grade, they had a missionary from Africa in to give a little talk about his work and the people he had encountered. This had to be summer of 73 or 74 I forget now. Pretty interesting stuff, some humorous stories about the indigenous people not knowing that you eat peanut butter as opposed to spreading it around as a sealer, that kind of thing. After he was finished, they dismissed the younger children and the older kids were told they could stick around for a more intimate discussion of his work.
After he finished, lo and behold, out comes a box and darn, if there was not a shrunken head inside. The story was that one of the chiefs or warriors or someone important had taken this head (i did not inquire further on that) in 1959 and gave it to this missionary as a gift of some sort for his missionary efforts. I guess for convincing him to give up his heathen ways, lol. I have never seen another and I never ever forgot that day.
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I have rear coil overs on the rear but plan to have them on the front like the Two Lane 55. My rear tires are way too wide right now (19.5) and future plan is to change that also.
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All I have to do is look in any mirror to see mine. Lol
I have zero interest in their products too. Actually told them that in person in 2017 when they tried to sell me one on Power Tour.
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Totally impractical, and that is why it's perfect!
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