Remember "PRO GAS" ?

[Tom Goldman]

When I started running then index classes, It was usually a struggle to get the car to a 10.90 or a 9.90.
Sometimes we'd get lucky and the weather was good ,I'd get to throw some weight in the car. ....Or if it was 90degrees outside ,or we went to Coloumbus,we'd throw on the tunnelram so we could make the index.
But that was when a BIG motor was a 468, and most racers were running old Modified Small blocks with cast iron heads or home built 427's with heavy TRW pistons,and L88 heads.
I can't say I had more fun back then, but it was better for the fans when the cars and the drivers had to work hard to go fast enough and have BIG B**ls to roll the car in deep enough to hit the tree !

[Rich Biebel]

Dave Schaprio had a 427 in his first Street roadster with a flat tappet cam.

At Columbus in about 1984 the car would go maybe 9.95....and it took probably 2 "bumps" to get any kind of decent RT...

I loved the term SewerGas.....and when we pulled into an NHRA event and a parking guy asked us what class......thats what we told him we were running....Sewergas....

At indy that year there was well over 200 cars entered in SewerGas.....and we ran the first round almost before the sun was up......

[Paul Ceasrine]

I remember that 'fun class'.

Pro/Gas, which I think had a 9.90 Limit when it first started.

One of our friends ran a 1974 Pontiac GTO (remember them), with a
fiberglass-nose, and with a Chevrolet Big-Block 427.

[Geerhead55]

Hey Rory,, thanks for identifying the Teager Bros' wagon,, I remembered when it flipped. All the cars you mentioned I can recall, however I never saw Bill Jwayad's Mercedes in person, just a photo way back when. I do have a shot of the "High Voltage' Cuda.

Ron,,, I know the wagon Al Chinn has is a different vehicle,, and you're right, a 9.40 - 9.60 killer combo. As you may know he did pretty well down in Vegas last November.

Heres another guy that always had good looking, fast cars: Don't know if Frank Nelson played around in Pro Gas, but I always liked his Vega.
Photos 1&2: Frank in his Vega one Saturday evening in '84 at S.I.R.
Photo 3: Bonus shot of Frank in his '67 Camaro against Superstock & Drag Illustrated magazine cover car, The Wittig & Betteral '68 Mustang at Seattle in '74.
Photo 4: High Voltage Cuda
Danny Durham

[Geerhead55]

The "High Voltage" Cuda picture didn't post above like I thought it would,, lets try again. Here it is against the Depuy & Callison Corvette.
Danny Durham