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Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Wayne Gapp did the driving, Roush was the engine guy. One of their most successful cars was a four door Maverick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kenny Dondero

He drove for Jack Roush a few times as well I remember the four door Maverick he ran it for the longer wheelbace and weight break in P/S. Jack Roush drove before Wayne Gapp came into the picture

Originally Posted by Boss429KK1708

Kenny Dondero

He drove for Jack Roush a few times as well I remember the four door Maverick he ran it for the longer wheelbace and weight break in P/S. Jack Roush drove before Wayne Gapp came into the picture

and Roush's daughter is one heck of a good drag racer!!! Last I heard she was running a Mustang (what else?) in the 5.0 classes... Haven't heard anything about her lately????

Aaahhhhh. The "good old days". :-)

I remember when dragsters had the motor out front, where God wanted it!.... the ultimate production cars ran AA/GS, using a dragster engine, combined with a REAL car body that somebody had first used to take the kids to school!.... Cars were a ork of art, not a billboard for a product.... Pro Stock was a production car with slapper bars, bigger tires, and a tunnelram.... and the most beautiful car on the planet was a full bodied slingshot!

I also remember when Mom's stayed at home, and fixed home cooked meals.... kids would go down the street to be with their friends, instead of texting them, or being glued to a video game........when presidents gave their Generals whatever they needed, for as long as they needed it, to win..... Ooops! ..better not go there. {:-)

I posted in another thread that IHRA will headline "Prostalgia Funny Car Eliminator" next year, so we can feel a little bit of that old excitement!

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

and Roush's daughter is one heck of a good drag racer!!! Last I heard she was running a Mustang (what else?) in the 5.0 classes... Haven't heard anything about her lately????

Roush's daughter I just seen her on Car Crazy she had won the Championship in her class. Her and JRP are getting it ready for next season the lady has great driving talent

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Does anybody know when the picture that hotrodpaint posted was taken? I could be wrong, but I believe that the guy in the blue jacket and shades right above the "T" in the Lions Drag Strip sign is yours truly.

The Hurst Hairy Olds was out running a Tornado with twin blown old's in the front and back doing runs lighting up all four tires almost the whole strip.

Grumpy Bill Jenkins ran super stock with Camero's and Vega's and Monza's

There was a guy out of Mich called The Mich Mad Man that ran a SBC sideways in a bike.They would wheel him up to the staging lights and put the bike on rear wheel kick stand.Then remote start the engine like ones used on dragsters and he would rev it up and kick the bike off the stand laying down over the whole thing.

Twin engined dragster called the Freight Train.

The Hemi underglass and The Little Red Wagon doing battle as wheelstanders

Jimmie Oddy ran a BB/gas Austin that won a Indy national.

Originally Posted by 1gary

The Hurst Hairy Olds was out running a Tornado with twin blown old's in the front and back doing runs lighting up all four tires almost the whole strip.

Grumpy Bill Jenkins ran super stock with Camero's and Vega's and Monza's

There was a guy out of Mich called The Mich Mad Man that ran a SBC sideways in a bike.They would wheel him up to the staging lights and put the bike on rear wheel kick stand.Then remote start the engine like ones used on dragsters and he would rev it up and kick the bike off the stand laying down over the whole thing.
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that guy with the bike was E J potter THE MICH MAD MAN

Art Arfonce(sp) was out running a jet dragster.I remember a match race between him and Big Daddy Don.

Big had a clutch blow up and cut the car in two.Not at the above match race.

Connie was running a dragster and then a early funny car.Shirley was hanging out in real life,yepper"heart like a wheel".

Dandy Dick Landy was running his dodge Hemi deal.