Tom Hoover's SOHC at Keystone Dragways, Manitoba in the mid-60's
Terry
 

  4 million dollars on that transporter.


 

"Juana Taxi?" Fordor, now that's funny!

Didn't even know there was something like a 4dr Maverick ?

Yes, the 4 door Mavericks and Comets were fairly common, but I always hated them. The extra wheelbase and length just killed the clean lok the the Maverick & Comet 2 doors had. And then when the huge, ugly, US Federal mandated 5 mph bumper laws came into effect in 1973, the Mavericks and Comets, and most other cars, really got ugly, with those massive "battering Rams' hanging off the front and rear.
The reason the Gapp & Roush built the "Taxi" 4 door Maverick, was due to NHRAs weight breaks against the 351 Cleveland Ford engines, the cars that had a wheelbase of less than 105" had to carry more weight per cubic inch, than the same engine in a car with a wheelbase of 105". When that rule first came into effect, in 1974 or 75, I believe, the racers like Bob Glidden and "Dyno" Don built 1970 Mustang fastbacks, but Pro Stock cars were required to be no more than 5 years old, so after the 70 Mustangs "aged out", Gapp & Roush decided to build the longer wheelbase Maverick 4 door. Glidden chose to go back to the Pintos, and cary the extra weight, until the 105.5" wheelbase Ford Fairmont came out in 1978, and Glidden built a Fairmont, and went undefeated with that car for over a year. A few years later, NHRA changed Pro Stock into a 500 cubic inch class, so the various weight breaks, that mostly handicapped the 351C Fords, disappeared.

Interesting pic. You can't see the driver and the background and the graphics make the car look like a toy...

Exactly what I thought.