If so, check this out on eBay. Item #: 200506329056
They match up in basic design with what’s in this article.
Good luck on your bidding!
The second 73 Pinto…
I’m not a huge fan of this car for a variety of reasons. I think the paint scheme sticks out like a sore thumb compared to the rest of the vehicles.
However, while visiting my Dad last weekend I came across some pics of it. Here’s the first:
Ad for Gapp & Roush MPC Pinto model
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!!
1973 Pinto on takeoff
Nice shot of the 73 Pinto leaving the starting line. WG Driving. Roush in the background.
Drag Shoes Ad…
I wouldn’t mind ordering a couple of these. Too bad they couldn’t spell Roush’s name right.
Jack Roush
Just a quick note. Best wishes and get well soon to Jack Roush after the plane accident in Wisconsin.
1320 Notes – May 1976 Super Stock and Drag Illustrated
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.
Gapp & Roush – Sponsored by Pennzoil
Another ad from back in the day.
Who remembers those cardboard oil containers, eh?
Wayne Gapp’s AHRA RaceUSA Card
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!
Firestone Ad – Congrats to 1974 Driver of the Year
Drag News readers voted WG the ‘1974 Driver of the Year’.
The image below is one of several congratulating him.
