Yahoo Autos This Chevy Gasser Went From Dragster to Driver
Peter Gentile has been working on cars since he was nine years old, eventually buying both a run down 1955 Chevy drag car and a Ford onvertible of the same vintage in his early 20s.
The gasser Chevy got all the go fast parts including fuel injection to become Injecticide, a legend at Detroit Dragway when it competed between 1965 and 1972. On a good day, they young Gentile ran the quarter mile in 11.77 seconds at 119 mph. Then, after the NHRA changed the rules for the 1973 season, the Chevy got retired. Today, it packs a GMC supercharger and carburetors for a modest 650 horsepower.
Meanwhile, the other '55 got away, unfortunately ending up in a junkyard. Many decades later, Mr. Gentile decided it was time to make things right, locating a 1955 Ford drop top in Missouri in a condition that most people wouldn't even touch.
It's gonna take a while until he can cruise in that one, but the gasser is always there, running a little less wild than it did in the 1960s but still turning heads.
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