Anyone ever heard of Hasbro's "The Great Gassers"?

sdjjadk Tue Aug 26, 2014 11:19 am

I found an old Hasbro TV commercial for some interesting little fuel powered cars called "The Great Gassers" on You Tube.
I've never heard of, or seen them before. Anyone here have any experience with them or any pics, info, or know who made the engines? Google searches haven't been much help but I did find that they were powered by an .027 and I found one little thumbnail pic but it re-directs to a bad link.
Here is a copy of the thumbnail pic. The letter Font looks the same as what Testors used on some of their cars. But I've never heard of a Testors .027.
Anyone ever heard of Hasbro's "The Great Gassers"? Th10

Anyone ever heard of Hasbro's "The Great Gassers"? Th10

Shawn

crankbndr Tue Aug 26, 2014 11:39 am

I think this is the engine, made by Cameron? Looks like a Cameron. The photo is from Marks .049 Collectors Group.
I think the story is the cars were not sold and the engines destroyed. Anyone ever heard of Hasbro's "The Great Gassers"? Hasbro10

Anyone ever heard of Hasbro's "The Great Gassers"? Hasbro10

sdjjadk Tue Aug 26, 2014 11:45 am

crankbndr wrote:I think this is the engine, made by Cameron? Looks like a Cameron. The photo is from Marks .049 Collectors Group.
I think the story is the cars were not sold and the engines destroyed.

Thanks for the reply. That is an odd but interesting looking little engine. And yes it does look like a Cameron. Were they still around in the mid 70's?

I also found this E-Bay link,
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/RARE-1974-HASBRO-GREAT-GASSERS-DODGE-CHARGER-GAS-POWERED-CAR-UNUSED-IN-BOX-/360905943912
Went for a good chunk of change.

Shawn

sdjjadk Tue Aug 26, 2014 11:52 am

I did a Google search for a Cameron .027 engine and found this,
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1402733&page=380
See post #5687

You are right crankbndr, According to the above linked post, Hasbro decided not to go through with the production so they destroyed the engines and cars. But there were a few survivors. Too bad they never made it to production, they look like neat little cars.

Shawn

Waffleman Tue Aug 26, 2014 2:34 pm

Too bad they didn't get sold, they would have been fun toys.

Kids would've probably started placing bets that their car was faster than someone else's car... Very Happy

pkrankow Tue Aug 26, 2014 3:02 pm

Remind me of the "air jammers" my brothers and I had in the 80s. We ran the wheels off those and wore the air motors out entirely!
Phil

sdjjadk Tue Aug 26, 2014 3:41 pm

pkrankow wrote:Remind me of the "air jammers" my brothers and I had in the 80s. We ran the wheels off those and wore the air motors out entirely!
Phil

I remember those. I had the Motorcycle.

Shawn

G.O. Stang Wed Aug 27, 2014 11:45 am

Whoa! Those are Mustangs! Man I wonder how hard it is to find one of them. The track and everything is cool. I need one to display with my '71 Mach 1!

Mark Boesen Wed Aug 27, 2014 5:16 pm

There seems to be some misinformation floating around on these things. They were made sometime in the early 70's not 1961 (note Mustang & Challenger versions) and they were produced and sold, (see production packaging) although probably not very well. I believe I remember looking at one of these in the clearance bin of a local department store as a kid. I'm pretty sure it was a Hasbro and I remember looking at it for a while as my parents shopped. I remember having the impression that it and the engine was pretty cheesy compared to Cox and Testors products that I was familiar with.

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