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.
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:
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!!
Nice shot of the 73 Pinto leaving the starting line. WG Driving. Roush in the background.
I wouldn’t mind ordering a couple of these. Too bad they couldn’t spell Roush’s name right.
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.
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.
Winners of the IHRA U.S. Nationals in 1974.
Strange that the NHRA and IHRA had a race with the same name.
