Tom Bonner’s got a cool site here (http://www.vintage-nitro.com) and he’s got an article on the Super Cat.
The image is from the 1968 Autorama. The Autorama show is still held in Detroit and this year (2012) occurs Feb. 24th through the 26th.
See the full article on the Vintage Nitro site here.
I would LOVE to find out if this car still exists.
Looks like the 1973 Pinto is operating here. I’m a little confused by that and the lack of numbering on the car which would give me the year.
Anyway, some cool images of G&R cars + other competitors. Driving those Hemi powered Colts looks like a good way to get yourself killed.
This image was taken by Jon Asher and appeared in Car Craft magazine in mid 1976. Shot at the NHRA event at Gainesville and it was probably the first time that this car was at a national event.
Digging through the archives and found some 8mm and Super 8mm film. I had it moved to DVD and this was the first video. I almost fell off the couch!
Poor quality but probably the only video in existence of this vehicle running at the time.
This film was taken after the car was sold to Drake Viscome as the car is painted up in the ‘Vindicator’ livery.
Here it is:
Found this on eBay awhile ago. I believe that Jack Roush now has this car…or I should say the Roush Museum.
This image comes from a scrapbook that we had. Shows the 1964 Comet Cyclone named the ‘Chargin’ Cyclone’ launching off the line at the old Detroit Dragway. Pretty cool shot of the car.
Charging indeed…
Here are a couple more pictures of the Boss 429 Mustange ride from 1969. Taken from the Todd Wingerter collection. Sent to me by Daryl Huffman.
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:
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…
…be this?
…or this?
It would be cool if it was…
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.
