Jack Rouch's Maverick ?

The car ran 9.40's with just the 505" motor and no turbos. From what I've learned, the car had issues with lifting the front end at the big end with the turbos under boost. I don't know that it was ever run on a track all out with the turbos. It has never had a harness in it from what I can find, so it would have never passed tech at a legal track running as fast as it does.

Hello guys, and especially to you Gapster and Sudden Death.
I mentioned this to Charlie Evans while riding back to the hotel after the tech seminar.
Thought it would be "GREAT" if we could get Wayne Gapp up to one of our seminars.
I know he flies south for the Winter, But maybe you could work on your Dad for us Gappster??? How about it Uncle Charlie???
FYI, Wayne Gapp was head of 385 series development while still employed by Ford back in the day. Sure would be great to get him up here with us for one of our seminars for sure.
Send our regards to your Dad Jeff.
Regards.
Al

Al Martin wrote:Hello guys, and especially to you Gapster and Sudden Death.
I mentioned this to Charlie Evans while riding back to the hotel after the tech seminar.
Thought it would be "GREAT" if we could get Wayne Gapp up to one of our seminars.
I know he flies south for the Winter, But maybe you could work on your Dad for us Gappster??? How about it Uncle Charlie???
FYI, Wayne Gapp was head of 385 series development while still employed by Ford back in the day. Sure would be great to get him up here with us for one of our seminars for sure.
Send our regards to your Dad Jeff.
Regards.
Al

Wouldn't that be something!

Al Martin wrote:Hello guys, and especially to you Gapster and Sudden Death.
I mentioned this to Charlie Evans while riding back to the hotel after the tech seminar.
Thought it would be "GREAT" if we could get Wayne Gapp up to one of our seminars.
I know he flies south for the Winter, But maybe you could work on your Dad for us Gappster??? How about it Uncle Charlie???
FYI, Wayne Gapp was head of 385 series development while still employed by Ford back in the day. Sure would be great to get him up here with us for one of our seminars for sure.
Send our regards to your Dad Jeff.
Regards.
Al

X2 I'm all for it Al. If someone could get me some contact information, I'll certainly make that call, and we'll try to have Wayne next year.

Uncle Charlie

SuddenDeath wrote:Here is the engine when I saw the car in 1995 at Gainesville Raceway. Wish I could have found someone that day to buy it from!

I like that late fifty's radiator, and what intake is that

its a 1965/66 Galaxie big block radiator

Intake is a Shelby lettered cobra jet aluminum piece that was sold over the counter back in the early 70's

Like this one:

http://429mustangcougarinfo.50megs.com/shelbymanifold2.jpg

water pump is an early aluminum NASCAR Boss 429 unit

Jusr re-read the article...April '77 Hot Rod magazine

jones wrote:

Al Martin wrote:Hello guys, and especially to you Gapster and Sudden Death.
I mentioned this to Charlie Evans while riding back to the hotel after the tech seminar.
Thought it would be "GREAT" if we could get Wayne Gapp up to one of our seminars.
I know he flies south for the Winter, But maybe you could work on your Dad for us Gappster??? How about it Uncle Charlie???
FYI, Wayne Gapp was head of 385 series development while still employed by Ford back in the day. Sure would be great to get him up here with us for one of our seminars for sure.
Send our regards to your Dad Jeff.
Regards.
Al

Wouldn't that be something!

I can ask... Do you have dates?

Charlie always tries to have it in mid Janurary lately.

Thats a cool little car got to love the turbos....

All I know is that I love the car. I saw it a while back, I'm a Mav maniac.

Awsome thread!!!

Thought I'd post an update now that I've gotten a bit done on the car. Replaced the fuel system under it with stainless braided/AN fitting setup. Installed new battery cables front to rear. Just wanted to get it safe to even have it in the garage with fuel in it Installed new master cylinder, 5 lug rotors, calipers, hoses, etc. I think the move to 5 lug was a good choice. Installed correct size tires on the restored wheels. All 4 of the wheels had incorrect lug nuts on them! They had taper seat lug nuts on washers/wheels designed for the shank style lugs. Rear tires are 30-13.5-15 M/T ET Streets and fronts are D70-14 Firestone Wide Ovals. Also adjusted the coil overs to get the rear end down a bit. Could still use another inch. I have the correct leaf springs and vintage bars now, so when I get to it, restoring the rear suspension will sit the car back where it belongs in the rear. My driveway isn't flat, so its a bit misleading, but the car sits great now and front isn't in the weeds any more with the little donuts that were on it when I got it.

Thanks for letting me ramble! It runs good, but one of the turbos is blowing oil. After all it sat for literally a couple of decades, so the seals can't be in good shape. Next project is turbo removal and header fabrication.

wow ...really sweet thxs for the update ..... and you also have a great collection of pony cars in the background...

It's looking great. Are you thinking of putting it back to the original silver paint?

Most definitely going back to silver paint. Its a must. Can't wait to get to that point! My guess is that as bad as silver cars tended to fade, it probably didn't last long even when new. The white is flaking off in large pieces and apparently it wasn't well prepped, since it looks like in some areas they just scuffed up the original paint and painted right over it.

Cool car,keep us updated.

Well this was some damn good reading and nostalgia to say the least....glad to hear ya still have the stand and it'll get back into shape before long..Nice piece of history..Hell I started reading about it last night until I got double vision and finished up the morning with my coffee ! and enjoyed every bit of it and all the comment the guys that knew the car had to make.. Mr. Gapp and SuddenDeath thanks ever so much for sharing such a great piece of history in the Street Racing scene !

This car has sure been an adventure so far. I've tried to gather as much of its history as I can. It has been "off the radar" for decades and not many of these cars survived intact, so sharing this one is certainly a privilege. Thanks guys for the motivation!

and thank you suddendeath

suddendeath,

Cool car just wandering if the car still has the stock frame rails in the front?

Thanks Mark.

Sure does Mark. The aprons have had work done on them, but the rails are still original in the front. The motor was set back 10 inches and the firewall/trans tunnel moved back into the car though.

Nice Stuff !!

suddendeath,

I sent you a private message for why i asked the question.

Thanks Mark.