Comet 3 speed vs. Maverick 3 speed

Is it just me?

It seems that there are alot more examples of Comet 3 speeds, than there are Maverick 3 speeds. Anybody have any insight into this?

 

Im not sure if Marti Auto Works would have that info or not, but its worth a shot.

 

I dont beileve they made many 3 speeds in either model. I had an original 72 3 speed comet a few years back and want to say the marty report listed it something like 1800 or less.

 

Her in Utah since I was a teenager I never seen a Comet 3 speed on the floor but I saw a lot of Mavericks with three on a tree and three on the floor.

 

hmm, I thought 3 speeds were common. Both my Mavs (72, 70) were 3 on the tree.

 

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through the years ive seen more comets with 3 speed in floor than mavericks and more mavericks with 3 spd on tree. not scientific lol but what i have seen in this area .

 

my 1st car was a 72 maverick 3 speed on the floor ,that factory shifter moved from the dash to the back seat ,shifting it lol

 

my 69.5 maverick was 3 on the tree

but now it's 5 on the floor

 

All the Mavericks and Comets were three speeds - its just that most were automatics...

 

Well if someone wants to get technical Every american/canadian car was a 3speed. But South of the border you could get a 4 speed maverick

 

My first Comet was a '71 302/3 speed stick, and it had a floor shifter even though it was a bench seat car.

The advertising at that time did lean toward pushing V8 power, and a bit more of a performance image in the Comets, even though the same items were available in Mavs, too. They were trying to upsell ... it used to be that Mercury was meant to be viewed as a step up from Ford, yet positioned under Lincoln.

GM did a lot of same thing with branding ... that all went away when imports started flooding in.

 

I'm gonna get real technical and bet there are a lot more Maverick STANDARD 3 speeds than Comets because they made the Maverick more years than the Comet and sold a lot more Mavericks than Comets. Just for the record my first car was a new 73 Comet with a 3 on the tree and I broke the shifter tube on it within a few months so I bought one of those universal shifters that would fit about any car made at the time and put it in the floor It took me about a week to figure out that dam universal linkage

 

Its not really technical untill you have the proof Someone post a marti report. If it even has that info....

 

It is correct that there were 4-5 Mavs made for each Comet ... however the run was just one year longer 70-77 for Mavs vs 71-77 for Comets.

In shear numbers there should be more Mavs with standard trans.

The conversation started to veer off into floor shifters, though, and I think you would see a lot more Comets, percentage-wise, with a floor shifter. GTs came with bucket seats standard, and we have non-GT examples like my 71.

 

3 on the tree sucked cause of the stupid injected plastic couplers for the colapsable column. I remember when mine broke, out on a first date, great timing. Completely dead in the water and sheet metal screws would shear off when you were shifting it quick. I bi-pased the floor conversion and went straight to a top loader 4 spd

My 72 Comet was a 302, 3 on the tree w/factory air no ps, no pb