Below we have the cover of NHRA’s National Dragster from August of ’74.

The Taxi is still new.

The cover states:

Wayne Gapp’s still new 4-door Maverick, which annexed the Pro Stock runner-up honors at the NHRA Summernationals and hit consistent 8’s throughout the event, put it all together once again this weekend to dominate the Pro Stock portion of the Minnesota Dragway Division V WCS event. Said by many to have plenty left in the performance department, Gapp will undoubtedly be right in the thick of things at the Grandnational-Molson even, too.

Indeed it did…