Roy (Leroy) Repp (May 12, 1882 – January 4, 1934) was an American stunt driver.^[1]

Although many sources claim he was an Australian, there is evidence that he was actually an American born in Mansfield, Ohio, United States.^[2]

Repp was born on May 12, 1882, in Mansfield, Ohio and died on January 4, 1934, in Shreveport Hospital, Louisiana as a result of a motor racing accident; he was working as a race starting flagman at an IMCA big car event held at the Shreveport Fairgrounds on October 29, 1933, when a wheel came off a racing car and hit him.^[2]

One of Repp's stunt cars was Maude the Motor Mule. Repp could pull a lever, causing a heavy weight beneath the car to move forward or backward—shifting the car's center of gravity and making it rear up on its hind wheels or front wheels.^[3]

• Roy Repp at Flickr Commons

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