CPTV FEATURE -

Behold the Gasser. In the 1960s, the Gasser was to drag racing what today's Pro Modified or Drag Radial cars are. They were
entertaining, fierce and unpredictable.
Quain Stott has given up a lot to maintain at least one small pocket of period correctness in drag racing's modern nostalgia crazy. If you want to see the closest to what they were in the 1965 - 1967 era, then you want to drop in for a South East Gassers event.
Stott races and runs the organization; one which holds its participants to the strictest of period-correct standards with no exceptions for family or friend.
In this CPTV feature, go behind the scenes with the Southeast Gassers.

[@charleshughbryan5603]

Great video !! I was a single Dad fighting heart disease and showed my kids how to build gassers. We built a 40 Ford couple I'd gotten in1970 when I came home from the Marines and ran it street racing in 2012. My son now works on monstrous Cat equipped and my daughter works on F-18 fighters. I'm proud to be their Dad ! I'm thankful to be alive and still building street rods/ drag cars. Keep the videos coming !

[@garysmith5781]

Just added this place to my bucket list. I'm 57 and I love gassers. Heads up racing is the only way to race..

[@JohnSmith-wd9rc]

Finally!!! A video that features someone that knows how to shift a four speed.

[@riverrat216]

This is what true drag racing is!! Love it

[@monroemuscle7938]

I love this era ! Gassers , super Stock , midified , & early pro stock. Stick vehicles are true racers ! Anyone can sit back & drive an automatic , but , w/a stick , it's time to go to work & make money ! Young or old , stick IS the most impressive in the sport. Thank you for sharing. 🏁

[@onepunchgeorge9251]

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[@feff3277]

to the kid that keeps saying he's a old sole, tell him thanks because we need people like him to keep real drag racing alive!

[@danielmauter1737]

Yes# back in the day was full 1/4 miles.

[@Kinseydsp]

Good Old Fashion Flat Shifting Love it! Hate Bracket Racing TOO!

[@rogercrider7177]

Went to Mooresville,Leezers,in the 60s,saw Rabbit Baby Henry J ,and Wild Red Cosmopolitan,along with Carolina Twister Coronet,Blue Angel Anglia,Melvin Lancaster's 55,Pure Satisfaction.Great shows back then,just a kid older brother raced a pink/gray 55.Really enjoy South East Gassers today Keep up the good work!

[@johnbehneman1546]

I LOVE IT!!!! SO MUCH FUN!!!!! I LOVE MY GASSER FAMILY!!!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

[@1776vtgmb]

Southeast Gassers - in about 2 months I've gone to nearly 4 years of Gasser drag racing... watched some of the youtube videos 5 or 6 times! As good as it gets! WillyB

[@speedskiff2]

Nice to see these guys enjoying a dream. Gassers and Modified Production were THE classes back then.

[@dee3368]

Dude..bad ass!!! this is legit throw back drag racing ...

[@weldthatiron3683]

Old school racing the way it should be.

[@terryboyd9875]

Yeeesssssss old school racing.........Man how I miss those days.!,,,,,,,,,,, great video man..

[@garyida556]

Love the old time gassers. In the late 60s I built a 34 Ford 5-window Coupe, raised up in front with straight axle and VW tires. It had a 327 SBC with Corvette heads and solid lifter cam and only one AFB 4-barrel carb. I could not afford much because I was going to College at the time. I raced in C/Gas class and had a ball. Heads up racing was a blast....!!!.

[@gturner4216]

Best drag racing on the planet. A UK fan.

[@Kinseydsp]

So right like the old school days at Maple Grove every Sat Night old car and old style stuff just the best for sure. The Best racing ever!

[@quickdeuce]

Gassers forever! Like the others who have posted their thoughts, I'm old school (70yrs old), remember the days of Grumpy, Don an so many others like it was yesterday. Love your videos and of course KZbin for allowing us a chance to go back to a day long ago gone by,

[@kwik440]

HELL YEAH !! Been to a million races, you guys put on THE BEST SHOW !!

[@lionelwells5618]

Absolutely Awesome, this is fun at its best. Run what you brung.....heads up!! Doesn't get any better than that.

[@kwik440]

These guys put on a SHOW !!! AWESOME-AWESOME-AWESOME !!!!

[@Nomadcreations]

Great Vid & Philosophical Info With-In

[@johndyer8381]

Cool cars and the track girls are pretty easy on the eyes !

[@kanukster]

Even the ladies look period correct with their boots!

[@quickdeuce]

Retracing stepps, stumbled upon this video again. After a couple years of following SEGassers I appreciate this video and these men who race these wonderful cars even more.. Quain Stott followed his heart, stuck to his guns and pushed past those who tried to sway him from the dream of bringing back period correct race cars. A few of his friends joined in, supported him and now we have a resurgence of one of the most FUN for the spectator drag racing on the planet. Good on ya SE Gassers!!

[@SoutheastGassersAssociation]

John I'm a year late responding but I just seen your comment. Thanks so much for your kind words and thanks for the long time support. It has been the road least traveled for sure but it has now payed off and we have enjoyed proving all the haters wrong along the way. ~Quain Stott~

[@ceesteven]

Excellent compilation. Thank you for sharing what today’s society needs more of. May God Bless.

[@joncar13jonny15]

God I love this!!!!!!!!

[@jerrilynnforrester8694]

We where there at Greer and some of the best racing I have seen in a long time! We had a blast, like old times and these Guys can drive and shift a 4 speed.

[@timsterrett2417]

Great video,my kind of racing,old school technology still works,I love it.

[@rpasley]

WOW...by far, the coolest shot is the in-car at around 4:20. You can see the reflection of opponent's car door-handle-to-door-handle for the entire run, right thru the traps...they were locked together....very cool!

[@DonovanStott]

Very cool Richard!!! That's me racing against my girlfriends dad and totally missed the reflection!! Very very tight race!

[@TreyKing63]

The coolest shot ever!

[@RandysFiftySevenChevy]

Someday I will tour the tracks and meet some of you piston heads,Love this shit and headed out now to Eagle Field runway drags to try and not break on the first day.

[@rMDheal]

Awesome video, my dad said there were also Ford gassers back in the day, Mustangs, Falcons, Comets, didn't see any here.

[@danielmauter1737]

Yeah? They are there!..

[@rustymeyer2542]

Killer vid,fixin to start my 64 falcon gasser, this just got me more excited.Thanks!!

[@alphaone101]

Now THIS is the way drag racing SHOULD BE! Pedal to the metal, no break out, no electronics and manual transmissions! I LOVE IT!!!!! I ran an E/Gas 57 Chevy until the drag strips went to bracket racing and automatic transmissions! Standing on the brakes before the finish line is not my idea of racing! I hope this "gasser style" racing keeps growing and growing!

[@danielmauter1737]

Same thing!...

[@budpate95]

Old School racing awesome!!!!!

[@kimcokevin]

Love this! Wish I lived closer.

[@jeffb243]

Cool stuff!! I can imagine the old Riverside Raceway west of Nashville was a lot like this

[@sirjammer]

that's how you shift in a manual transmission...”never lift when you shift!”

[@mwilson7345]

Little River Dragway in Texas/ Nostalgia drags , worth the trip ,check for schedule .

[@rodneyf.9595]

Thank you Quain and Donavan Stott - Greg Porter -Dale Wilson and Mr.Cromer these are just regular folks ,they are my real hero's they bring back memories of my Dad in his 49 Ford y'all go see the South East Gassers best show and all these guys will talk to you tell you all about their cars and just hang out as Big Daddy Dale Wilson says ( its as real as it gets)

[@mega64219]

These guys had so much fun.I was born a little too late nineteen sixty three I missed it😢

[@mistacoz]

Great video! I only really found out about Gassers fairly recently, at first I thought they looked too tall and weird but when I found out WHY they were built like that I got it and they grew on me. Love the no-fucks-given attitude of them now and can totally understand wanting to keep racing with the old tech (with modern nods to safety cages I'm glad to see lol) to maintain the unpredictabilty which usually equals excitement and fun.

[@sterlingwilkey2124]

now this is very cool

[@cfdlglenn]

Look at Ernie banging them gears! That's One Gone Dog!

[@MMRodsCycle]

Love it!

[@brianfox1600]

Gassers are just way cool

[@frankclarkjr6369]

This is good real GOOD !!!!!

[@kevinbeauchamp9149]

I just started my 66 mustang coupe .. it’s getting a 429 4v top loader

[@tonys8518]

Old school gassers are still kool 2019 march

[@donaldalbaugh3705]

What it should be drivers racing not just riding and letting the computer do all the work!

[@tellfile]

I remember the Muncie 4 speed was supposed to have been the bullet proof transmission back in those days. Scatter shield a must because of clutch explosions. That happened in one of my 55's .

[@danielmauter1737]

In late '60's they were coming apart all the time? Really junk in '70's.

[@UncleRobsGarage]

I was street racing in the 70's great times.

[@scooterdoughmas3012]

wow thats the road less travelled omg luvd it cooter d out

[@Pollock1961]

KEEP UP THE OLD TECHNOLOGY!

[@1957kwick]

No turbo chargers here folks! Old school rocks! ✌️

Dont delude yourself there were twin turbo gassers back then too!! the malco ford comes to mind insane looking thing man!! the best class next to a/fd and a/fx

[@jagco2594]

wow cool racing. i miss gas racing. man nos has taken over.

[@ForestDwellingWretch]

I thank the gasers for bringing my drag strip back to life for a wile at least. My strip was and still is a run down scam place ran by drug heads and I'm not saying the name of this strip but it was one of the best till around the end of 2014 and drug head scammers took it over and the gasers came back and brought this strip back for a few weeks even tho they stayed for 2 days. So thanks to the gasers for keeping my strip alive. I would love to lease it just to bring it back cause the cars we get are old and new and they are not new day funny cars nor now day rails they are 6 second mustangs with Chevys 7 second firebirds 10second trucks 6 second diesel twin turbo doge trucks and JR rails and this strip has the best pits and has never had any kind of restrictions to anywhere I mean if they are not about to run you can walk out onto the track and every one is so friendly it's just like you have known them for a lifetime. So thank you gasers for keeping this over 50 year old track alive for now hopefully I'll some how get the money to lease it and bring it back.

[@ronwatson4902]

I wish Maurice Deal was alive to see this.He'd be out there too.

[@mikeyt3940]

You guys are the BEST! Much respect to all the people in the SEG.. Hey Quain, when you going to let altereds IN?

[@SoutheastGassersAssociation]

LOL I've got to get this gasser bunch on track first. One day I hope to have a class for them.

[@nemodapimpfish]

love all that you do Quain. hope to make it down for a race this year to watch and meet everybody. i live waaaaaay up here in washington state but love what ya do! exactly how id build one!

[@SoutheastGassersAssociation]

Thanks, You are a long way from here. The way this deal is growing we might be coming your way in a few years.

[@MrLrry1266]

OK, the set up: First time you rolled out to the street, first time you know that you put it together, and it's right! Your first attempt to apply all you know and have learned. So you stop along a spot you know to be pretty open this time of day, and you're ready. You blipp it, bring up on the foot brake, and stab it, hold it to second gear, into second and you have just experienced what you, and no one else, will be able to understand what just happened. Sit back and relive that moment, you deserve it because you never forget it. It is the same for you as it was for people named Garlits, Force, Jenkins. Don't ever let that go, get that grin on your face every once in a while, it's just for you.

[@douglasbrasher2134]

yes bracket racing is a pain in the ass !!!! :>)

[@monstermechanic-uw8xj]

don't get me wrong. I love old gasser racing

[@mchristr]

It's a shame that vintage Pro Stock isn't this authentic.

[@quickdeuce]

Gene Cromer really said it best.

[@axlegrind4212]

straight axle front end is safer than any other on the strip

[@G8GT364CI]

Man, I'm from Boston, you guys should put subtitles on the screen for us yankees.

[@guidosarducci3047]

Thanks. I liked and subbed

[@midevil7236]

That's the way it should be I was born to late

[@sludge4125]

The first guy sounds like a stubborn old man. Yep, got to stick to the old ways, cause times never change. Was the loss of friendships worth it?

[@harleydavidson4404]

This is the only way to race the beat

[@easytopleez33]

Is greg porter still in the SEG?? I didnt see him in Baileyton last month? I love this these Gassers!!

[@danielmauter1737]

No! His car illegal. Wrong cylinder heads and carbs not in-line.

[@danielmauter1737]

He had wrong heads and carbs not in line.

[@TLricks]

👍

[@craigpennington1251]

With the friends bit. It boils down to jealousy. Been there. Strip girls are always hot. No bracket racing is the way it should be run.

[@daryllect6659]

I have to laugh at the dropped "straight" axles.

[@joesmith306]

What's the difference between the old way and the modern why?

[@mrearlygold]

no speed/time showing?

[@CosmosPrivateer]

I don't really know but I see a lot of peddling down there, seams to be a little high Tech.

[@danielmauter1737]

If you show up to the races. They aren't peddling NOTHING!!!. No need to? No break out!!. Fast time in next round gets lane choice. No reason to back peddle???..

[@artizan46]

Ran a C/G '55 Chevy in the late 60's and never saw anyone running a tunnel ram and carburetors. What happened to period correct fuel injection. No one knows how to tune them anymore??

[@danielmauter1737]

In '70 in C/G we ran tunnel Ram... We couldn't afford the F.I...

[@kevintucker3354]

They were racing 1/8 mile in the hay day of gasser racing? I really thought they were running 1/4 mile back then...

[@brushcountry6361]

They were

[@unicyclemaster470]

if only there was a strict association like this for a/fx, that'd be great

[@SoutheastGassersAssociation]

Working on that now Unicycle master. We have 2 that run with us some now and hope to add them to every event next year. We only have the 2 that that fit the era right now.

[@frigglebiscuit7484]

southeast gassers association is wrong on one thing: 4 speeds only. there were autos back then, ad they were used.

[@danielmauter1737]

In late '60's early '70''s in Gas or M/P nobody had one in UNION Grove,Wisconsin. Stock and SuperStock saw some. 1980 big turn around on that..

[@af4od02]

I going to try to make a race!

[@SoutheastGassersAssociation]

+Bill we look forward to having you. We will be in Union SC May 14th, then Knoxville Tenn May 28th, then on to Montgomery Al June 11th. Our web site is southeastgassers.com for all of the race dates.

[@af4od02]

+Quain Stott hello Quain. How many cars you expecting to be at Montgomery Alabama this weekend? I'm showing up. I'm hoping to get lots of photos. Thanks!

[@SoutheastGassersAssociation]

Bill we have 24 pre entered right now. I'm thinking a few more will before the end of the week but I can't promise. I think it's going to be a good show, The ones that are coming are the best of the bunch. I'm getting there Friday and might make a test pass Friday night. We start qualifying Saturday at around 4 o'clock but the race won't start until about 6:30 o so.

[@monstermechanic-uw8xj]

people don't give a shit if it's period correct. as long as it looks the part.

exactamundo!! i spy some billet crap!!

[@rickshaw6198]

You're drawing more spectators because you have better pit floozies. Way better.

[@monstermechanic-uw8xj]

old gasser racing had different classes to even out the feild depending on weight , engine size, horse power, and type of fuel used. look it up. learn some history

[@sludge4125]

Great comment, MM!!!!! I hope none of the old guys had an aneurism when they read that.

[@SoutheastGassersAssociation]

SEGA classify the cars by weight to cubic inch just like in the 1960. A/Gas, B/Gas, C/Gas, and now Super Stock.

[@Ugrasrava]

The only things that should ever be modern on a Gasser is the roll cage, brakes if it's a street machine. Why build to such a fundamentally flawed spec if you're not doing it to keep the old gear running?

[@topp352]

Where do you people race?

[@SoutheastGassersAssociation]

+jim mostly the southeast but we do drift away to other parts of the country when the money is right. We will be in Union Sc May 14th , then on to Knoxville Tenn May 28th, then to Montgomery Al June 11th. We have 2 clases A/G and C/G with at least 16 cars in each most of the time.

[@topp352]

+Quain Stott ,,,Thx.for gettin back to me.This is so much a part of drag racing.I grew up watching these cars.Kil Kare drag strip.Late 50's till 1973.I would like to come see you all run.

[@SoutheastGassersAssociation]

+jim We are trying our best to keep the cars as close as possible to the way they were in the mid 60s.Our rules are very strict on era correctness and we do really race, it's not just a show and it's first car to the finish line wins. There are several other video's on line some are on my youtube page, it's in my name Quain Stott. As a matter of fact there is a 30 minute one coming out tomorrow on my page. Stay in touch and we will get you to a race in the future. Oh yea I just read an article on Kil Kare the other day.

[@SoutheastGassersAssociation]

@@topp352 Hope you find this response since it has been 3 years. I noticed you said you raced at Kilkare back in the day and would like to see the SEGA. We will be at Kilkare for the first time ever September 12th 2020.

[@MarioGarcia-ip6qx]

who cares what other people think, just have a good time without the bullshit dramma

[@sludge4125]

Yes, why can’t these geezers just enjoy what they are doing, without the editorializing and WHINING!!!

[@danokerr9929]

The sound a straight cut muncie 4 speed makes me feel something I never felt before.

[@DerekCastleSr.]

Those ain’t muncies. And muncies weren’t straight cut gears.