SEMA 2009: 1951 Henry J gasser is a 7-second blast from the past

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Here’s another black beauty that caught our attention in the halls of SEMA 2009. It’s a 1951 Kaiser Henry J owned and raced by Chris Beanes of California.

Running in A/Gas, this gloss-free gasser can storm the quarter in the mid-7s at better than 174 MPH. We read somewhere that it’s powered by a Chevy 400 that’s backed by a four-speed transmission, but other than that we don’t have a lot more details. What we do have are a few pics in the gallery below that hopefully capture the magic of this nostalgic dragster.

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