Nitro Neil

There has always been a lot of confusion of what the differences are between Gassers and Altereds, so I thought I would put together a small chart that shows the most important differences between the two.

The fundamental difference is the Gassers (the formal NHRA name is Gas Coupes and Gas Sedans), and Altereds is that the Gas classes were intended for "streetable" cars, while Altered were for non-streetable race cars. But in practice, the two classes had a lot of similarities and a lot of fans and model builders get them confused because of that.

Here is a short listing of the major differences between the two classes. This is not a complete list, and the rules did change somewhat over time. But for the most part, these rules applied through the heyday of the Gassers and Altereds.

Round2 had some interesting stuff on display at the NNL East....

I stopped using model cement completely about a year ago. Now I only use superglues. Anyone else?

I was just responding to a post by Tim Boyd and it dawned on me that a lot of us probably have at least one build on our shelves that was inspired by an article that Tim wrote. He has been writing articles for model car magazines since the 1980s and he's still at it.

I'll start. Here's one I built based on a TB article showing how to build a '29 Ford roadster on a '32 Ford frame using the not-very-accurate AMT kits that were available at the time.

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This could be cool...

http://www.cnn.com/2....html?hpt=hp_c3