I wouldn’t mind ordering a couple of these. Too bad they couldn’t spell Roush’s name right.
I wouldn’t mind ordering a couple of these. Too bad they couldn’t spell Roush’s name right.
Just a quick note. Best wishes and get well soon to Jack Roush after the plane accident in Wisconsin.
A rat motored Maverick? Hmmm…. See what the rules drove people to? This is rumored to have been a 427.
Agent 1320 spotted Gapp & Roush in a motel parking lot the day after Pomona and snapped this flick of the Ford boys putting an honest-to-goodness big block Chevy between the rails of their 4-door Maverick.
After track tests were delayed first by a water leak, then bent pushrods, and finally five straight days of rain (ending LA’s longest dry spell in 20 years), G & R decided to call it quits and returned home to ready their new Pinto for Florida. Gapp said they’d renew their rat motor wringout after the IHRA race in Miami.
Another ad from back in the day.
Who remembers those cardboard oil containers, eh?
I don’t know the whole story behind these cards. Looks like the AHRA (American Hot Rod Association) worked with Fleer to put out these cards for 3 years(?).
Regardless, here is the Wayne Gapp card for 1972. Features the Blue Maverick.
Here is the back with a nice blurb.
Fun stuff!
Drag News readers voted WG the ‘1974 Driver of the Year’.
The image below is one of several congratulating him.
Winners of the IHRA U.S. Nationals in 1974.
Strange that the NHRA and IHRA had a race with the same name.
Engineering review and objectives of the 427 SOHC.
Good read. I’ll post some more later…
Sure like to find something like this for the Boss 429.
From late 1973 to late 1975 WG was on a roll. Won this race.
I’ve got one of the original posters.
Advertisement for Motor Wheel.
The pics include Bob Glidden, Gapp & Roush and Truman Fields.