PARKED for 37 Years - NASH Gasser Lives Again

The paint job on this 1947 Nash gasser is a WILD '70s design, but the paint job is actually the reason this car was parked in 1971. The owner paid $5,000 for the paint job and the white base coat turned yellow due to the clear coat. This car remained indoors until 2008, when it was sold. It was put back on the track a few years later and is still ripping up the local nostalgia drag racing scene. The car runs with the Straight Axle Mafia, and runs select events with the Southeast Gassers Association.
The old paint is ALL ORIGINAL, and this thing still has its original race car interior from the late '60s. This car ran at the US Nationals in 1966, and ran in Upstate New York for most of its life. It now lives in the Louisville, Kentucky area. Horsepower was previously a Hilborn injected 327 with a 4 speed. It now has what the owner described as a "$300 small block" with a tunnel ram and two 4's. What a killer old school gasser with tons of great history and a paint job that gets everyone's attention.
#dragracing #gasser #hotrodhoarders

[@gs1100ed]

Would be cool if that Ford 3 axle truck was still around too

[@kevinbelcher8490]

I would love to see you build a museum with all of the cars you have collected. so you can preserve their history

[@THROTTLEPOWER]

Oh yea, always enjoy seeing this one at the Drag Strip!! 🏁🏁

[@Telephony954]

If you don't love this car, you ain't a car person. what a story. Thank you for sharing.

[@anthonysmohawkspeedshop324]

I’ve watched this car make passes at the nostalgia races in Hardinsburg Ky. Love these old survivors. The guys in the straight axle mafia are a cool bunch of guys. Great video.

[@terryeustice5399]

That Nash gasser is very cool. And it’s story is great. A great survivor! 💯👊👍

[@427Musclecar]

Very nice survivor!

[@lancesteele9719]

Another great drag racing history lesson ! Keep up the great work !!

[@brucethompson1879]

Thanks for your channel and returning me to the sixties !

[@davidsantos8206]

This car is awesome. Definitely a 70's psychedelic look.

[@mattskustomkreations]

Wow. What an odd but cool ride! Thanks for finding and sharing! I dig that SC/Rambler he went against at the end.

[@danieljohnson9351]

I've had the pleasure of seeing this car cruise the Louisville fairgrounds during the Street Rod Nationals several years ago. Wild!

[@sumthinsumthingarage7913]

Dwight is a great dude! Love this car!

[@ericheine2414]

I just love knowing their gassers out there in garages and barns. By the time you were a gasser you are Full Tilt Boogie.

[@classactkirk]

That thing is awesome. There is a super famous gasser in tacoma where I'm from that had a wild paint job done early 70s,car sat paint started bubbling and chipping. The dude who baught it redid everything just as it was with upgrade safety stuff. Since the car was known for this paint job he put a ton on clear coat on it and it has held everything down and it looks awesome. I'm not a fan of clearcoat on rust but to preserve that spacial paint job on the Nash the clear would hold everything there for 100 yrs,what a gem. Thanks for sharing

[@kurtludwig6962]

Like when you tell when paint was done. Helps in recreation of period gasser

[@CAROLDDISCOVER-FINDER2525]

What a wild paint job. It's groovy 😎 man just groovy.

[@mrnobody6573]

The steel lady (1953 movie)Surviving a plane crash in the Sahara, four oilmen find and manage to repair a German Army Corps tank which had been buried in the sand since WWII & use it to escape the desert. That guy must`ve really liked that movie.

[@OG-TimoT]

Great Video. Thank you 👊👍

[@user-js4vh2lw6n]

Fantastic video Tommy! Thanks for sharing this awesome car with us.

[@David_Richard_241]

Love this car, man. I have a random question for you: Have you ever heard of a man from Mansfield, Ohio named Fred Bocka? He ran a 6cyl. altered in the 60's and 70's called the "Mighty Mini." He still holds 3 records to this day for naturally aspirated 6cyl. on the quarter mile. He was my neighbor when I was growing up in the 60's and I often went to the races with him and his father.

[@asimplehorseman4648]

Old Iron will always be Cool. Thanks for the video story.

[@dannybenfield1164]

One cool old Nash and looking good

[@DanEBoyd]

When I was stuck in school as a kid, I hated history. I didn't care one iota about any of those kings and queens and politicians, I figure that they were mostly a bunch of creeps. But when it comes to history which I can relate to, I just love it! I also love researching the history of places where I've lived, and the buildings and people who were there well before my time.

[@artjones2498]

I used to see alot of paint jobs like that,,,my parents used to take me to all the autorama shows around columbus ohio in the early 70s they were the coolest car shows ive seen...indoors,,,i loved to go....in the early 90s i bought a 46 nash 4dr from a neighbor...suicide doors were cool...eventually sold it...this 1 brought back a ton of memerys,, thank you

[@gearbanger57]

Cool to see an old drag car back out and getting properly abused.

[@user-KrackerJack]

Very cool , love gassers

[@garypiont6114]

Thanks. My favorite car. Bad bad to the bone.

[@nessie42786]

I have 4 of those STP flower stickers stashed away.

[@rayinpau.s.a.6351]

Much appreciated !

[@dh.media_]

Man I wish I would’ve known all this before the Knoxville drag race! Awesome video sir!

[@mick_1949]

Thanks champion. Love it 👍🇦🇺

[@N-Scale]

Just the way I would do it !!!!!! Love it !!!

[@1pieman]

That is just cool thank you for sharing 👍😎👍

[@SirGregg]

Thank you. Great video.

[@Darrin_Wyatt]

Another great video.

[@ltform]

awesome video, thx

[@waynemetevia7983]

Another great video. Keep up the great work. Enjoyed watching this. Looks cool and sounds great.

[@davida.p.9911]

Awesome!! 😎 The paint gives it a lot of character. And unique!!

[@domcorleone66]

Thanks for sharing!! Been to Indy quite a few times. To run it at the Nationals was a huge deal!!

[@HotRodHoarder]

Thank you for watching!

[@kevinjohnson8758]

Yep Love it.🎉

[@bucasbill2592]

Thanks for sharing this badass history

[@HotRodHoarder]

Thank you for watching!

[@wilburross9709]

Kind of ironic that what was considered a 'ruined paint job' then is now considered 'perfect patina.' I absolutely love the psychedelic paint jobs of the early '70s! I see lace panels, endless lines, freak drops, this paint job had it all!

[@wilburross9709]

Oh, yeah-cobwebbing, too! Every custom paint job in the '60s-'70s used to have it!

[@hippydippy]

Way Cool! Love it.

[@sporty196071]

Super cool lady

[@biggcory1]

Epic 👌

[@marcropiteau3133]

That car has had suspension work since i looked at it . I knew about it when Craig owned it. Im glad to see how it rurnrd out!

[@Steverinomeister]

It’s so important that people like you document these cars Tommy. Somebody bought the rights to Nickey Chevrolet and is making new gassers with the old Nickey Logos on them. People down the road are going to be buying them thinking they’ve got a real one.

[@roberthill2219]

I never in my life and 40+ years of intense interest in 60s drag cars heard of a race car being parked for a bad paint job...

[@actionautopartsjaymephilli3171]

Red is a cool guy and has a cool old car.

[@mc2whls]

I see that the shifter is a Pistol Grip from a Mopar. 4 Speed cars are SO COOL!

[@scottvadon2095]

Years ago we saw a Hudson coupe drag car at a farm by Leshara, Nebraska

[@HotRodHoarder]

Oh man, that sounds cool. I love oddball stuff like that.

[@rogercamp6071]

I remember see a Nash coupe like this turned into a street rod in a Rod and Custom Magazine in the late sixties or early seventies,wonder if this could be it with a different paint job.

[@buixrule]

Wow she moves pretty good with those short gears don't she?

[@craigthompson35]

D-White is the Man

[@rescuedrestorations]

Kool Yep

[@edlattina2638]

I like to see all the history reminds me of the past and stories my dad told me . I am looking for a late 30's early 40's chevrolet dodge ford truck for a project hope you can help

[@jaysmith7109]

I wanna know what happened to the haul truck?

[@asn413]

wonder if a color sand might help...

[@jimhodge8594]

Is that the one on Facebook marketplace for sale?????

[@MrPappysCobra]

Neat video Tommy!

[@wreckerjonny6144]

Lyons is 40 minutes north of me

[@scootermcd5756]

Does this class require a 4 speed?

[@richardcline1337]

If I had the time left, and the money, I'd love to buy this car, take all of that shit off of it and restore it to what it was built originally to be. What a waste of a great classic car!

[@g.o.b.2558]

Bless your heart... Thank goodness someone like you doesn't have the opportunity to get their hands on a peace of history and ruin it...

[@jimpuglisi7973]

Very cool 👍🏻

[@jimpuglisi7973]

Dry cool

[@franko2k]

No mention of who the painter was? 😬

[@andreamills5852]

Awesome history !💥------------------------------------------------------------------------------🏁