Check Out This Gasser Wagon 1964 Chevrolet Chevelle

Gasser—it’s a super cool build style that started at the local dragstrips in the mid-’60s and spread like wildfire to the streets. At least that’s how it was in Southern California with the guys and gals that liked the badass look of a lifted dragster. One couldn’t pass a high school parking lot in the vicinity of Irwindale, Pomona, or Long Beach without spotting a jacked-up something sitting high above the crowd on extended rear shackles and a straight-axle in front.

For Darryl Nance, proprietor of D&P Classic Chevy in Huntington Beach, California, it’s all about reliving the glory days. Darryl is the owner of the 1964 Chevelle two-door wagon gracing these pages and he told us there’s no two ways about it, street gassers were fun back in the mid-’60s and still are even today. Darryl went on to say, “Like D&P’s customers, we all like to relive the glory days and I wanted something that made a statement about the good old days.” Darryl found the basis for his gasser wagon while attending a Tri-Five show in Bullhead City, Arizona. “It was a shell of a car missing a lot of hard-to-find parts surrounded by a bunch of cars that should have been sent to a scrapyard a long time ago. It took quite a period of time to track down the rare parts I needed. Special thanks need to go to Scott in Hesperia for all of his help tracking down the many parts the wagon was missing.”

After Darryl had all of the miscellaneous rare parts tracked down the next move was to have D&P Classic Chevy’s in-house staff of bodymen go to town on the sheetmetal to get it ready to go into paint. For paint, Darryl looked to his friend Paul Stoll at PPG to custom mix a PPG Ditzler basecoat/clearcoat pearlescent butterscotch hue they call Screamin’ Yellow. D&P’s master painter Little Al shot the stunning finish and then custom painter extraordinaire Steve Vandemon laid down stripes, genuine gold leaf lettering, and capped it with a caricature of the Master Cylinder.