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Gapp & Roush – 69 Super Stock Mustang

I really don’t know much about this car. Story from Dad is that there was a hole in rules that would allow this car to run and win class in Super Stock/HA which they did at Indy in ’72.

Beyond that entry I’m not sure how much they ran this car.

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The caption of the photo reads:
Although best known for their Ford Pro Stockers, the team of Wayne Gapp and Jack Roush actually drove a Cobra Jet-powered ’69 Ford Mustang in the early 1970’s in the Super Stock/H Automatic category.

Here’s another pic of the car that I found in my Dad’s files:

Color Super Stock Mustang

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The G & R 4-door Maverick as owned by Marino & Vitalee

Found this posted over at the Dover race track site. Some interesting history on the Maverick post Gapp & Roush ownership.

Talks about the guys that bought the Maverick. You can see a few changes in the vehicle like the hood scoop and some basic change to the paint.

One of the posts noted, again, that vehicle was destroyed in a pit accident in Englishtown.

NOTE: Update. Here’s the original link.

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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.

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