Wayne Gapp (far left, blue shirt) and the ex-Barrie Poole Pinto. This car was purchased and repainted into the livery you see below. Later destroyed in an accident in St. Louis.
The image itself was taken at Great Lakes Dragway in Union Grove, WI. It was published as part of compilation of images published on YouTube. The video contains a lot of other great images from the time period.
See the original video here.
Nice drawing of the Ford 351 Cleveland head. Posted here to show the original design of the head with the canted valves and, in particular, the design of the exhaust port.
This is an image from Dragway Classics which I believe is the business name for Larry Malski’s business(?) Could be wrong.
Anyway, Larry Malski took the image.
Wayne Gapp driving and Bill Jameson in the t-shirt on the left.
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.
Nice clean looking car.
Sooner or later I’m going to get my act together and get all this stuff posted.
In the meantime enjoy some video of the ex-Barrie Poole Pinto vs. Sox Martin.
See it here on youtube.
Another somewhat rare shot of Jack Roush driving the ex-Barrie Poole Ford Pinto. Paint by Bill Nolan.
The image below was provided to me by Cary W (via Rick Voegelin). The original image that was used by John Jodauga to create the illustration is located here.
Dad is smiling the original…not so much in the illustration!
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.
Tyler Wolf, archivist at the Roush Collection, sent me this image of the ‘Taxi’ in action when it was owned by “Marino & Vitalee’.
Great shot.
