![]() Car has been totally rebuilt from ground up with new suspension including springsSway bar Polyeurothane bushingsshocksball jointstie rod endsand spring perches.Underside including torque boxes is solid. Original 302, V8, 3 speed manual, 8 inch rear. 1974 Ford Maverick Grabber 1974 Ford Maverick Grabber in Excellent Condition. SUPER LOW RESERVE! Email me with questions. ![]() Car could be driven home, but there is the hole in the sheet metal of the foot well on the drivers side and the accelerator pump that leaks slightly. Accelerator pump on carb leaks, needs attention, not an expensive fix. New shift boot, power steering reservoir, brake shoes, tail lights, gas cap, locking gas cap, hoses, and rear view mirror. Original Philco radio is included with many other parts. You'll find that all electrics work on car, including heater. The vin code checks out to ID this as a grabber car. ![]() Prior owner added the vinyl graphic, that's not original. High performance clutch works well, paperwork included. Engine, transmission, drivetrain all work well. I have afolder of receipts back more than 15 years and original owners manual included with it. Would you go any further? Is there really a need? We’d leave the look alone…you don’t see them like this anymore.1975 Ford Maverick Grabber Additional Info: We’d also consider widening the rear wheels, but leaving the stock design. After a few minutes of prying off the tacked-on Blue Ovals and Explorer-sourced “V8” badges that this car was plastered with, you’d have a clean, fairly original machine, one with the nicest stock interior we’ve seen in twenty years.Īs these cars become harder and harder to find in this nice of a condition, the question has to be asked: do you leave a find like this alone? We’d hot-rod the hell out of the running gear, but we’d also leave the stock look for a bit of a sleeper vibe, and we’d keep it quiet. The automatic trans and the half-vinyl roof aren’t so enthusiastically welcomed, and the 1970s-spec Magnum 500 style wheels make it on this car. Two doors and eight cylinders are a good start. Phone: 48 Email: email protected Address: 7400 E Monte Cristo Ave Scottsdale, AZ 85260. Ford then released the Ford Maverick Grabber package. Maverick was on the way to meet the same fate as its predecessor as the Falcon. Yet, it started on a decline after a few years. 6 vehicles matched Now showing page 1 of 1. The Maverick was outselling the Datsun and Toyota vehicles by almost double the numbers. Set an alert to be notified of new listings. Which brings us to this earth-toned 1975 Grabber. Classifieds for 1970 to 1975 Ford Maverick. Because this off-white hood decal is custom-made, it is not returnable unless defective. ![]() A Maverick with a small-block Ford…especially with a hot small-block Ford…can be very entertaining. While I don’t hide my fondness for the Mustang II, I can understand that line of thinking. It’s hard to not like them…for many people, this should have been the Mustang of the 1970s, not some overglorified Pinto. Instead, it was a psychotic Mercury Comet, complete with a 302, a four-speed, and the twitchiest mannerisms this side of a Suzuki Samurai with a V8 in the nose that has left me a drooling idiot for Mavericks and Comets. You’d think that I’d be a Ford freak just by all of the little Falcon-based sleds that were in my life. My grandfather’s barber had a baby-blue one that he treated like gold. My babysitter’s daughter had a yellow one. One of my dad’s friends had a white sedan that he used as a security car. Blue, yellow, green, red, white, and every shade of brown under the sun…you couldn’t turn a street corner in Colorado Springs in the late 1980s without spotting a Ford Maverick. They were everywhere when I was a little kid.
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