1972 Pro/Street Maverick
Michael Salemme
Drag Racing Expert, Photographer & Author at Shop Tour Hardcore Drag Racing. Direct Sales, Technical Support, Fabrication, Hi-Performance Guru.
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When Roger Tausch's blown 1972 Ford Maverick rumbled through the Indiana State Fairgrounds over 35 years ago during the Street Machine Nationals, it caused tons of excitement among fellow Street Machine enthusiasts!? You see most blower cars at the time were Chevy's and very few were Ford's or even Ford powered.
Roger's car appeared in the Nov. 1980 issue of Car Craft , It was a fantastic debut for Roger and his? Supercharged 302 powered Maverick. It would go on to grace the pages of several other magazines in the following few years.
?It is virtually unchanged from its appearance when it was last seen over 35 years ago, apart from a narrowed rear end and the change from carbs to fuel injection. This mighty Maverick? followed the wildly popular Pro-Street trend that took hold at the time with its tubbed rear end. Later on it was converted to 4 speed with a Hurst Shifter.
Roger and best friend Bob Gagne did the work themselves without harming the dazzling black paintwork and backyard-painted graphics.
The fuel-injection system is a more recent addition, however. Roger added it only a couple of years ago to fulfill his decades-long affinity for the look of a bug-catcher-topped, mechanical-injection setup. Roger said it was the blower, that kicked off Roger's Street-Machine legacy.?
? When his father bought the brand-new Maverick for him in high school. It was already wearing a tricked-out dealer package dubbed the Mod Maverick, which included wide rear rubber and side pipes.?
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What didn't change was the slow? 302 C.I. engine and three-speed transmission. Roger stated? couldn't beat anything on the street, so in 1976, Roger and his father went to Dyers Blowers and picked up a 6-71 unit. Roger bolted the blower onto the stock engine and started winning races. There weren't any other blower cars around in his area, so it?made a really big impression.
Roger's pioneering Pro Street Maverick was never a?Trailer Queen, as many Pro-Street cars were dubbed in the later years of the movement. He's got some 9-second e.t. slips among his decades of memorabilia to prove it. ?
Service Manager at Windsor Chrysler
6 个月Sweet ride. Got to love the sound of a 671. Sit down and hang on!!!
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Professional Surveyor and Mapper & Remote Pilot
7 个月Maverick's might not be a popular car to build, but this one here is a-okay in my book.
Service Manager at Partco LLC
8 个月I always liked the Mavericks, had a Comet back in the day, but that is long since gone. I would like to have another one though.
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