The ‘Red’ Maverick
Below is a picture posted by Nicholas S. Arvanites in the ‘Nostalgia Pro Stock’ group within Facebook. Great pic of the 1972, Boss 429 powered, Ford Maverick.
The Taxi – Fall Nationals 1975
Been awhile since I posted something to the site. I was able to get my hands on this image from the 1975 NHRA Fall Nationals so I thought I would post it.
1976 Gapp & Roush Pinto
Another shot of the 1976 Gapp & Roush Pinto. Originally posted to Facebook by Doug Schmitt, current owner of this car.
Wayne Gapp working on the 1976 Gapp & Roush Pinto
Here’s a pretty cool shot of Wayne Gapp working on the 1976 Ford Pinto. This image was posted by Doug Schmitt who is the current owner of the vehicle.
This car is pretty interesting because it was built in-house by Gapp & Roush. The chassis is essentially a clone of the 1973 Ford Pinto which was built by Wolverine.
It is my understanding that there were many small modifications made to the chassis design over the years they owned the 1973 Pinto and those changes were incorporated into this vehicle.
Wayne Gapp’s Super Cat – 1967 Cougar
This image was originally posted on the Facebook page of Hatton’s House of Crazy paint. This is the 1967 Mercury Cougar of Wayne Gapp.
It’s hard to see how good this car looked in B/W but it was a pretty sharp looking ride if you ask me.
Gapp & Roush @ Ford booth at the North American Auto Show in Detroit
I attended the North American Auto Show in Detroit in January. Ford had an ‘Performance’ area within their booth. There was a small area there talking about Drag Racing. The content below was part of that presentation.
I have no idea why they don’t mention that Gapp & Roush won the 1973 NHRA Pro Stock World Championship.
Gapp & Roush Super Stock Mustang
I swung out to the Suburban Collection to take a look at this car that the Roush folks have restored.
Looks great!
Gapp & Roush 302 intake manifold
Recently on eBay a seller put a intake up for sale. This intake was stamped ‘sample’ and included as part of the form the words ‘Gapp & Roush’.
A picture of the intake from the post is below.
The story of this intake is that while my Dad was building the ‘Country Shindig’ Maverick they needed an intake for the engine. He then asked Louis Wlosinski to modify an existing Edelbrock 351 intake to fit the engine since that intake worked pretty well on the 351.
If you now the story of the Country Shindig you know that the intake worked pretty well on the 302 in IHRA Super Modified class (as in the car was dominant). Jack Roush then took the manifold, had some samples cast (this example is one of those samples) and had a production lot made.
This is a fairly rare example as the ‘Gapp &’ part of the casting is still on the intake. After my Dad and Roush went their separate ways Roush still sold the intakes (why not?) but ground the ‘Gapp &’ portion of the casting off.
The bottom side of this intake has welding beads all around the ports…probably for fitment?
Anyway, enjoy!
*Thanks to Tom Tate for passing along the eBay listing.
Great shot of the red Gapp & Roush Maverick
This shot was posted on the Nostalgia Pro Stock Facebook group by Rick Rusk. He noted that the image was probably taken @ Columbus in 1972.
