Holy Crap! Nicest eBay Grabber of all Time!

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  1. dmhines

    dmhines Dixie Maverick Boy

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  2. Country Mav

    Country Mav Die-Hard Ford Guy!

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    It is nice!! Good to see that some people actually took care of these cars. Good looking car for sure!! Preston
     
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    Maverick73 Senior Member

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    Nice......
     
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    71gold Frank Cooper Supporting Member

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    (y) that is sweet (y) ...frank...
     
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    littleredtoy Seth

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    DM,
    I have never seen that treatment on the taillight panel either.
    I have seen black '71 & '72 GT's with silver stripes and the taillight
    panel was silver/argent. The hood stripes however were black.

    I have seen black Grabbers with silver stripes and silver hood stripes
    but had black taillight panels.
     
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    littleredtoy Seth

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    By the way, the center photo, those are the wheels that I have always heard were part of the 'Bearcat' package.

    Seth
     
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  7. Mavaholic

    Mavaholic Growing older but not up!

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    According to the report, 23 came with air but only 20 had tinted windows. I thought all factory air cars had tinted windows. Sheese, is there nothing definate about these cars?
     
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  8. Craig Selvey

    Craig Selvey Indiana State Rep - MCCI

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    My factory AC 1974 car does NOT have tinted windows.


    Strange??
     
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  9. dmhines

    dmhines Dixie Maverick Boy

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    Mine has A/C with tinted glass ... perhaps you have a 1 of 1 car as well!
     
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  10. Mavaholic

    Mavaholic Growing older but not up!

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    To call a car a "1 of" just because it has blackwall tires is kinda stretching it in my book. But, it is, what it is.
     
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  11. Craig Selvey

    Craig Selvey Indiana State Rep - MCCI

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    Very nice car.....but not original in my opinion.

    If it is as nice as he says it is...it would be worth the price.

    Only 11,922 Grabbers were V-8...which goes to show you that MOST were 6-cyl cars.

    Bucket seats seem to be very rare...as does AC. Maybe I shouldn't have painted my 1972 V-8, Floor shift AT, Factory AC, Factory Bucket Seats, Factory Vinyl Top Grabber....orange!!! Opps....who knew??

    I know...I know.....Marti knew.
     
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    dmhines Dixie Maverick Boy

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    The problem with that Marti report is that it each line only breaks down the statistic above it. For example only 87 Maverick Grabbers that were black and had a 302 had black bucket seats. There were alot more buckets in Grabbers than that ...

    Now if only that car had a white interior!
     
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    Craig Selvey Indiana State Rep - MCCI

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    I noticed he switches from saying "of them" to "of those". What does that mean?
     
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    Russ Found On Russ's Drive

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    Only about an hour and $10,000 from me.
     
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  15. mavman427

    mavman427 has entered the building.

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    I've never understood the factory restoration line of thinking. It just doesn't do it for me. While Ford and some of the other manufacturers occasionally nailed certain aspects of certain cars, they definitely didn't nail them all. A stock Maverick was a cheap econobox that looked halfway decent. I love mavs not for what they are, but for what they can become. Stock econoboxes can turn into fire-breathing, bad ass looking works of art. To top it all off, they're relatively cheap for a classic car, and they're relatively rare now too. Anyone can strip something down, repaint it and pay someone to put a new interior in it, but only the true craftsmen push the limits and let their imaginations run wild with their cars. In my opinion, none of the stock cars can hold a candle to the restomods. Just my 2 cents tho :D . Ok I'll get off my soapbox now :slap: .
     
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