What made the gasser wars "Wars" was six years' worth of fun-loving verbal abuse generated by the gassers' prime actors: Doug "Cookie" Cook, "Big John" Mazmanian, and "Ohio George" Montgomery. While ...
In 1960, Doug Cook returned to Detroit driving Howard's (cam grinder Howard Johansen) orange "eight-cycle" Special Forty Willys that blew off Sam Gellner's '55 Chevy to take class. Montgomery was a ...