The ad is as it appears. The creator stretched the ‘Taxi’ to get the effect.
The Gapp related highlights of the ad are the following:
Sanair – GrandNational Molson event
Pro Stock Winner – Wayne Gapp
New Pro Stock ET Record – Wayne Gapp
Popular Hot Rod meet at US-131
Pro Stock Winner – Wayne Gapp
Pro Stock Top Qualifier – Wayne Gapp
Check it out. This is the right half of a full page 1970’s ad for MPC model car lineup.
You could get the Mummy machine…The Grand Superfly(!!)….and…
WHOA! The Gapp & Roush Pinto model? NHRA National Champs! I’ll take 2!!
I wouldn’t mind ordering a couple of these. Too bad they couldn’t spell Roush’s name right.
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.
I’ve got one of the original posters.
Advertisement for Motor Wheel.
The pics include Bob Glidden, Gapp & Roush and Truman Fields.
As I dig through the old magazines, National Dragster’s and the like I keep running across ads that contain images of WG or of the Gapp & Roush vehicles. I thought I would break out a category on the site to spotlight them a bit.
This one is interesting as it comes from the May 1977 issue of Cars Magazine. This is at the very tail-end of my Dad’s career and it has a vehicle that hadn’t been run under the G & R banner for about a year and half.
