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Gapp & Roush Pinto in 1976 – Todd Wingerter Collection

Nov 17, ’11 2:16 PM

Reed Koeppe (see here)has sent me a quite a few images of Gapp & Roush vehicles over the last few days.

These images are part of the Todd Wingerter collection. I find Mr. Wingerter’s images pretty compelling because (a) the shots are well-framed and (b) they appear to have been taken using Kodachrome. Kodachrome film gives a certain ‘look’ to the images that are taken with it. See here. Basically there’s a richness to the color in the image.

Again, I don’t know if that is the case here but it sure looks like it.

Check out this shot of the 1976 Ford Pinto:

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Is THIS a Gapp and Roush Maverick?

Oct 19, ’11 9:36 AM

Saw the first picture below on the Nostalgia Pro Stock group on Facebook. The original image comes from Reed Koeppe, Drag Racing historian.

I find the topic to be interesting as I don’t know the location of many of my father’s vehicles.

The 69 Mustang body is in the hands of Daryl Huffman. The Cougar has vanished. The Comet Cyclone was scrapped.

Brett Hajek has a vehicle but some things on it just look wrong (bumpers, windows). My Dad thinks it’s a match racing car they built. The 4 door Maverick is gone and Roush had a clone put together but it’s not finished. The 1972 Pinto was sold to Glidden. I’ve seen a Glidden Pinto sold recently but don’t know if that car is a rebuilt version of the ’72 original or not.

The Super Stock Mustang is in Roush’s hands.

That leaves the 1973, 76 and 77 Pinto’s and the Maverick’s.

I know that the ‘Red’ Maverick was sold to Jim Halloran but lost it from there. Never knew what happened to the ‘Blue’ Maverick.

I would love to get my hands on the Red Maverick.

Anyway…

The question is: Could this…
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…be this?
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…or this?
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It would be cool if it was…

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1976 Gapp and Roush Pinto

Oct 14, ’11 6:27 PM

Bought a few negatives here and there and came across this shot.

The color in the image is great and the shot shows the details of the car.

1976 Ford Pinto Gapp and Roush

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Time for a shot of the ’73

Oct 9, ’11 10:25 AM

Been some time since I’ve put up a shot of the 1973 Pinto.

That’s WG center left.

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Interesting image of the original Gapp & Roush Boss 429 Maverick

Sep 16, ’11 5:19 PM

Found this on eBay awhile back. Kind of a fun image from a race at night. I would like to think that this was on purpose…but I don’t think so.

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NHRA photo of the week

Sep 1, ’11 7:25 PM

The NHRA posted this as the photo of the week!

Pretty cool of them to do that.

Too bad they don’t have a picture from 1975 when WG won the event.

This is NHRA’s recap of the 1975 event here.

I can help with a picture.

FYI. If I were to nitpick the picture that NHRA selected is from 1976. See here for a list of cars and paint schemes by year.

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1975 U.S. Nationals – One of NHRA great races.

Aug 30, ’11 10:58 PM

Here’s a entry from the NHRA web site talking about the 1975 U.S. Nationals meet.

See it here.

The ‘awesome’ 4 door maverick strikes again.

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Wayne Gapp Poster

Aug 6, ’11 4:47 PM

One of my favorite racing related items…period. I have one of these that is badly beat up. One of my Mom’s friend had this one and gave it me.

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Another shot of the Taxi…

Jul 27, ’11 7:11 PM

This one comes from Daryl Huffman who did the restoration of the ‘Gate Job’ Comet.

Taxi Huffman

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Nice shot of the Gapp & Roush 4 door Maverick…

Jul 2, ’11 5:02 PM

Must be early 1975?

Cool shot of the ‘Color Me Gone’ funny in the background as well.

I had to lighten the image up a little bit to bring out some the detail.

4door Maverick

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