Southeast Gassers Association - Paying Tribute to the Heroes of Drag Racing's Past
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- The Southeast Gassers Association is one of the premier nostalgia drag racing groups in the world. Though it started small, the group has been pleasing fans and challenging its racers for nearly 10 years. The group is led by Quain Stott, a championship winning drag racer who is dedicated to paying tribute to the heroes of drag racing's past by reliving the glory days. He does so with period correct gassers, built to 1960's specifications, with exceptions for safety and car durability. The Southeast Gassers Association thrills fans with wild wheelstands, high revving burnouts and side-by-side heads up action. Follow along as I explain a little bit about the Southeast Gassers Association rules package and show you some footage from the 2020 SEGA event at Knoxville Dragstrip in Maynardville, TN.
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I'm a member of Southeast Gasser's Association. Wonderful organization great people and awesome Race Cars. My car is a C/Gas 56 Chevrolet named the Northeast Assassin. I live in Connecticut and travel to these events in the South! Quain Stott did a awesome job!
Great first pass, that 56 sounds strong, just in CT. sat. picked up a hood I bought off ebay, for my 62 hot rod vette that I am building, live next to Maple Grove Raceway PA. What track do you run ?
@@rader1175 Richard the closest track to me is Lebanon Valley Dragway in Lebanon NY. I'm presently rebuilding the engine I'm going to pickup the block from the Machine Shop on Monday.
I'm 70 so that brought back a lot of memories. Dover Dragway in New York and Connecticut Dragway. Thanks.
Awesome! Thanks for watching!
Connecticut Dragway 👍👍
Love hearing everyone rowing the 4-speeds!!!
This was a great day of racing! I came from Calgary, Alberta, Canada to watch. SEGA is truly a family. Everyone there treated me with nothing but kindness. Can't wait to get back!
Best racing Knoxville sees all year long. Great video Mr. Byrd.
Looking forward to it. June 3rd/October 9
i love being a member of this group. i really appreciate how much time and effort everyone has put forth into their gassers. im a huge history nerd and love seeing stuff like this in person.
"First to the finish." Racing as it should be. Great cars in this video...
Yep
I love gassers. Back in the sixties I had a subscription to Hot Rod magazine. It was loaded with gassers. I always loved the stance with the straight front axle. I thought the early funny cars we’re cool too.when I think off a drag car the gasser is the first thing I think of. To me there’s nothing cooler than a 55’ Chevy gasser. Great video
While watching these races, I can smell the air. I love going to SEGA events. You need to treat yourself and watch a SEGA event at Shady Side Dragway in Shelby, NC. I was fortunate enough to watch a handful of these races there and it was the best drag racing I've ever been to. A lot of these cars I recognize and it's too cool to watch them online. Took some of my favorite photos with these cars. Definitely worth checking out!
Lots of racers from upstate South Carolina I’ve been followings this series a couple of years now.
Yes sir, the Carolinas are the epicenter of gasser drag racing...it's been fun to watch this thing grow into new areas. I'm thankful we have a local race here in East Tennessee.
SEGA is making drag racing great again. Heads up, three pedals, balls on full display drag racing, that's how it started, and that still needs to be the core of it.
The very best drag racing action period.
Southeast Gassers Association, ROCKS!!!
My race buddy you just made drag racing gold.you rock you are talking my language now brother.
I wish I knew you were going to be there. I'd of shook your hand. Thanks for the cool channel.
Hands down the best vintage racing channel with even better stories. Thank you for what you do.
Thank you for the kind words Sean!
hey! thanks for doing this piece! I've always loved gassers, and its nice to learn some more about them :)
I follow south East gassers online. I missed the kilkare race that being the closest to me. Great video. Wish they came to Michigan
TheVet4id exactly!
Just awsome love the high winding and the 4 speeds that go with it
I really like the old school drags &heads up racing 1st at finish line wins
I sure do enjoy your videos!! For a young man, you are so informative!! I'm from NEArkansas and old style racing was really big in the 60s and 70, and still racing old school style in Paragould,At at George Rays Drag Way!! I am 69 yrs old and loving this!!
Thanks Jim! I've always wanted to visit George Rays....looks like a cool place!
Would love to see these come to Florida !
We will be in Holt FLA emerald coast drag way on 3-19 and 3-20-21
You guys are so fortunate in the States to have these events. Wow classic cars. Supped up visual drag monsters. How I'd love to see one of these meetings.
I was never a petrol head. Came across your channel by chance one day. Subbed and vegitated for a week consuming every video. Love it.... Love it.... Love it !!!
understandable, since uk has a minimum of big v8 muscle cars
@@tomschweikert9537 UK ? Yeah I suppose.
Try the southern tip of Africa. Nothing .....
Some oval tracks have old car bodies rattling around..... Never seen anything like this though.
Better yet was to daily drive a v8 shoebox Nova with 4sp n 12bolt posi north of Cincy in mid to late 70s. 😁 Good times😁
Thanks Brother , I Love it ! I grew up with these cars it is so Very cool to see old time heads up racing . You guys are the BEST .
Absolutely great video's love watching 👀 this stuff. Brings me back to my younger years in life. Great times thx
Great video! I've got to say that my personal favorites are the station wagons. I've always loved watching a grocery getter taking off from the line.
I love the old gassers👍👍👍👍❤️
I love nostalgia drag racing too. Gassers always have my ❤️. I hope to have one some day. Nice video!
Love a good classic gasser....😍😎
Just had your LOST DRAGSTRIPS, GHOSTS OF QUARTER-MILES PAST and Street SLEEPERS, The art of the deceptively fast car books delivered....
Looking forward to see more videos and books (gassers?) from you!
I hope that you and your family are all doing well!
Thank you for checking out those books! I've considered writing more books, but it's a ton of work. Not something I can fit into my schedule right now. But they were a lot of fun to put together...thanks again!
Thanks I hope you enjoyed the show.im the Crew Chief on the Flower Power.
Wished I could have met you next time you come to a event stop by the pits
Love this car! She's such a bad ass driver!
Tommy, I love you brother and all of your great videos! 💯
As much as I love the racing....nothing beats your back stories and the way you tell them 😎🎉😎
Living in the San Francisco Bay Area , I would give anything to see a Southeast Gassers Race.
We do get "The March Meet" and "The California Hot Rod Reunion"...... even a Nostalgia race in Lodi and a bunch of races in Sacramento. 😉
Keep up the great work brother and most of all....keep those back stories coming! 🔥😎🔥
Thank you for the kind words Tony! Maybe someday you'll find yourself on this side of the country for a gasser race. They are really something to see! I'd love to see the March Meet sometime. Definitely a bucket list item.
Loved the video. Wished Thunder Valley (noble oklahoma) would put a show on like that. The best show that happens once a year is drag week. I don't know its going on until I see street cars pulling trailers w/ their equipment. Keep em coming ( your videos)👍
PAY ATTENTION, I’m gonna say this once. GASSERS RULE.
NUFF SAID.
I love watching SEGA.
Awesome video. I talked to you at Knoxville drag Way Saturday night. In the pits. Wearing long sleeve monkey gas shirt & zoom cap with gold fish hook on Left side
I was their and am in a bunch of your footage...lol...Had a blast seeing all them cars!!!!
That's awesome! I always love it when the Southeast Gassers come to town.
Thanks for sharing great show love the gassers!!!!a friend from Canada Rob ✌
I went and watched the SEGA races here in South Carolina last weekend. Loved it great racing!
Dont forget the 60's period correct super stock class that has really taken off since being added a couple yrs ago!
Thank you for another great video. Keep up the good work.
Thank you forvan awesome video ! Take care , stay safe and healthy wherever or whatever you maybe doing next ! Doing well here in Kansas .
Thanks for checking in Steve, good to hear from you!
Drag racing needs more back up girls.
#truth
T&A!
The ladies remind me of "Jungle Pam" Hardy. www.jerusalemonline.com/engine/common/AMP/?id=all-the-info-you-never-knew-about-jungle-pam-hardy
Like Jungle Pam !
It was the advent of the B&M Hydromatic transmission back in 1963 that brought about the big changes in the Gas coupes and sedan class' because now a stock bodied car could work with an all out racing engine. I was there... I know. It was a very big deal when Junior Thompson with his '46 Studebaker coupe pulled off the first wheelstand in a door car. The Street Roadster and the Modified Sportscar classes were basically the same other than body type. In the early days, the gassers were required to start their engines with starter motors and return to the pits under their own power. That all changed. The engine had to be mounted not more than 25% of the wheelbase measured from the front end spindles to the centerline of the rear wheels at the first spark plug.
It was wonderful when the NHRA instituted the Modified Production class for the guys with street rods that couldn't compete with the gassers anymore.
I love your channel keep up the good work
Authentic even down to the Go Go girls😎 Cool!
And I don't think I've ever seen a Henry J racing before!! That was neat
When I seen that 58 chevy I about lost my breath I've been looking for one for years to build one just like my dad had his was white with red seats was and impala with 348 tri power with an automatic he had it before he went to Vietnam and while he was away one of my uncles was doing a tune up on it for him for when he come home and someone crunk it up and was revving it up and their foot slipped off of the brake and it crashed through the shop wall and when dad came home and saw it he was heartbroken and sold it and I always wanted to find another one to fix up for him but he passed before I could and I just have a love for that body style
very sad, my first driver was a 58 Delray 6 cylinder 3 speed good luck.
Thank you I will not give up on this dream and I will complete it in the memory of my dad he passed away January 25 2019 but that man fought to his last breath he was one of a kind and had some health issues the last couple of years he had done walked to the gates of hell and knocked on the door and walked back he was the toughest human I have ever known and I will find a 58 and fix it just like his I've got alot of pictures to go by and if the dmv allows it I'm going to have pops 58 on the tags and just remember the good times I had with him
Love love those ole Gassers
I really like watching them!!! Great video brother!
Thanks Mark!
GASSERS ROCK !! HOPE THAT DUDE WAS OK AT THE END . GEAR SLAMMNG FUN!
Thanks for sharing a friend from Canada Rob ✌
I watched it twice 😂 great video brother 👌
As you said these cars are a handful so fail to mention the female drivers who are just as competitive i am a fan of the southeast gassers i love they brought it back i wasnt born til 73 and didnt have a chance to see them because i was born too late fan base growing every year and i hope it is around for future generations as well
boy to those gassers take me back smell of burning rubber in the morning better than coffee
Jus' squint those eyes just a little bit and help the SEGA boys live up to their mission statement: PERIOD CORRECT GASSERS!!!!!!!
Personally, I don't enjoy watching modern drag racing. I'm only interested in the cool old stuff.
AWESOME 👍👍👍👍
I believe I have seen Taz race before. I was in Columbus Ohio at a Goodguys show/race and a car just like his ended up on its roof that day. I wonder if it was him? Ron
I'm glad the driver of Taz is all right. But I got to tell you, I much rather see these cars take to the track and get aired out like they were made to be, then sit in somebody's yard rot in hell away. You know race cars crash it's what happens. But I got to give the guy mad respect, cuz he didn't lighten up he flogged that car, and that's what the hell they were made to do. If I had the money I'd rebuild it for him. I'd like to thank him for not babying that shit. The 40 41 Willys is one of my favorite cars of all time, it sucks that somebody dumped oil on the track and got them loose at the big end, but let's face it that's drag racing. You think I want to see a 1960s Gasser go out there and pussyfoot it? Hell no. The man gave it the beans all day. Mad respect.
Well done! I dig the AMC.
Knoxville drag way 10 min away had a lot of good times there
Got my home track, Baileyton, in there.
Cool vid !!!!!!!!!! 👍 👍 👍 👍
Feel bad 4 Gary Cline he skinned that car up in North Carolina couple years ago. I plan on being in Aiken on Friday night. Last year it rained Saturday in Aiken. My son and I got to see a SEGA sunday sermon from Mitch Stott.
Too cool. 👍
I seen Alan platts Georgia Shaker in this video today is his birthday Happy birthday Alan
Personally in my opinion nhra has ruined drag racing you have to be a millionaire just to run national events southeast gassers has got their business together and the racing is too cool keep up the good work love the videos
Thanks Jim!
You forgot the S/S class!! 13 cars,,,with Mark Hackett running the Mercury Poison-65 Comet,, fastest qualifier,, 1st place Winner!! 1st in points!! Record crowd attendance,,,,,,,,,,,,my 2nd trip there,,,,worth every penny!!
I didn't get any clips of the Super Stock cars running, as I was photographing them for the magazine coverage. So...maybe next time I'll dig into the Super Stock class. Very fun class...it's growing quickly!
Wish Allan Platt would have been there with his 65 Falcon.
Oh yeah, I love that Falcon!
16:35 , Todd Oden Double-X= Serious Weight Transfer!
Please tell more about all chevy performance magazine
Hi Lonnie, information on the new magazine can be found here...the parent company is called In The Garage Media. inthegaragemedia.com/all-chevy-performance/
@@HotRodHoarder cool thank you brother👍
If that just doesnt make you smile then theres just something wrong with you. BTW Im an old roundy round guybut I loved it!
Do the small block Chevys have too run stock type heads or can they use aftermarket heads?
They can use aftermarket heads but they do have restrictions on valve angle and stuff like that.
Hot Rod Hoarder thank you for taking the time to answer.
Can't somebody get Gasser racing organized in the Southwest?
Interesting for a European like me. There are so many laws in France that you cannot make many modifications to your vehicle, a bit like in Switzerland. Higher, wider, longer, bigger engine = no, no, no, no. But you can buy electric sh.... car very expensive. I will never buy an electric car. You're in luck. Thanks for sharing this video.
Can you sometime talk about Ernie the Mongoose McEwen
As LodiGlass said ... 'Drag racing needs more back up girls' .. &, in my opinion, none of them is hotter than the one with the gorgeous auburn/ginger hair.
First thing I have always loved gases . I never will forget the Ohio gang . Many good names . They would go from dragstrip to dragstrip challenge and anyone that was there they challenge anyone at the local track of course not many people could beat them . One of the guys was the guy that owned Mr. gasket . Then it was Eddie's filthy 40 . I agree with most of what he's done . I don't agree to the cars bouncing that's extremely dangerous . Then the ET rule I understand . But back in the 60s when I went racing I want to know how fast they were . Street outlaw's does that silly stuff . That's because the cars on fast as they say they are . It's treated laws also allows traction control . Which no one allows .. I watched this clown Mike Finnigan with his gasser . You could build a pro stock car for what he put in that car . In all aluminum hemming motor . He shifts the car like a 90-year-old man . The gasses that I remember they could shift so fast you had to look in the car to be sure was a four-speed . The jolly dolly was an immaculate 39 Chevy . Bob Bernardin on the car he was a machinist by trade . So the call was absolutely perfect . It would go straight every time and he was shift like Ronnie socks . At my local track we had a car called the bluebird and it was pretty nice to but not his detailed . Then the local dragstrip owner had a 55 Chevy C gasser . We thought it was fast . Until the Ohio gang came and cleaned his clock . Keep up the good work . By the way if you ever stop to think about maybe starting a museum .
You really are kind of a fool huh?
GreAt vid bud
Rules are a little to strict. Runes the fun
Magnesium
Bracket Racings Sucks, THIS is Drag Racing !!
It's 99% all good, but I just can't get sold on the 1/8th mile. Don't like it. A drag race is 1/4 mile. Period.
I wish the Southeast dragsters would come out by me. My next car that I would love to build would be a gasser. I stopped racing King street because they stopped doing heads up racing which is one of the main reasons I did that class.