1974 Ford Maverick

Hot Rod Magazine – Ford returns to its roots – Gapp and Roush ‘Taxi’

Hot Rod magazine create a post on their web site titled “Ford returns to drag racing roots”.

Included in that post is a gallery of images and in that gallery? A great picture of the 4-door Maverick called the ‘Taxi’.

See the article here.

See a link to the image here. Note that some of the caption information included with the image is incorrect.

I’ve included the image below but you should go read the whole article. I happen to agree that IF Ford were to spend even a portion of the former budget dollars on NHRA Stock/Super Stock they could be very successful building up their brand in the Sportsmen ranks.

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Racing

Wayne Gapp and the Stars of the East Coast funny car circuit

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Check out this article. 

There are a couple of interesting things here: 

1. Drake Viscome. I’ve emailed a little bit with him. Cool guy!

2. This line: 

Viscome’s cars always were Ford-powered, initially with engines from Wayne Gapp, then Gapp & Roush, and finally Ed Pink.

Most people don’t know that my Dad started a engine building business in the late 1960’s called ‘Performance Engineering’ and was one of the few people who built Ford engines for Drag Racers across the country. The building for that business was located south of Michigan Ave around Outer Drive and Park in Dearborn, MI.

The picture below was taken there. That’s also why when you see pictures of this car the back has ‘Performance Engineering’ on it.

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Later, when he was promoted within Ford Motor Company, he brought Jack Roush into the the business and changed the name to ‘Gapp & Roush Performance Engineering’.

Parts

Gapp and Roush Intake Manifold for 302’s

Had a question come in that asked where the 302 Manifold that was cast with ‘Gapp and Roush’ on it.

Here’s the story:

There is no direct answer. One of the after market suppliers made a single plane manifold for 351 Ford and 350 Chevy, probably Edelbrock, probably for NASCAR. IHRA created the mini.prostock class for small block and four barrel carb. Since the 302 Ford had a shorter block, the 351 manifold did not fit the 302. We cut a portion of the flange off and made a narrower manifold for the Shindig car. When others wanted one Roush took a sample to a pattern maker and ordered patterns to duplicate more. I don’t remember what name he put on them as this was about the time of the split. I think the first were Gapp & Roush and subsequently Roush.

Intake Screen Shot

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