Whats wrong with the Maverick?

exactly!

TL come race my Neon er... SRT-4 (same crap)i'll spot you 5 cars.. and belive it or not the first gen civic is a classic now..

 

ive seen some srt 4 run pretty mean ....yup early civics have a cult following , guys love them

 

Anything can be made fast. Classic? Sorry, not gonna happen...

 

It didn't look like that stock...

 

agree w/ T.L. on this one ...74 is big bumper car , now has small bumpers...but otherewise that is one sweet car

 

The fact that the car is legally a '74 is beside the point. The car is a stock appearing small bumpered Maverick. EVERYONE at the car show last weekend thought it was a '72.

Yea, and what did people say about our "cookie cutter" economy car Mavericks years ago.

 

I wouldn't really call the maverick a classic either. I know this debate has been done before, but I'll still throw in my $.02. For a car to be classic it needs to have been a very popular car. If not popular then revolutionary or exotic in some way. The maverick still deserves a spot in memorbilia, but I'm just not sure how to classify it.

I'm not sure the civic will ever be a classic either. It's very popular with the younger hot-rodding crowd, but does not transcend all demographics as being popular.

The 1st gen mustang is classic. That car appealed to everyone. The Chevy 2 door post, is a classic. I don't care who you are, everyone likes a shoebox. The coke bottle shaped mopars are classics. Obviously the camaro and SS chevelle fall into that category as well. The nova could be lumped into the same category as the maverick. It was an economy car who's potential was stifled by the introduction of the smog era. While this car will never be a classic it is very popular with hot rodders. ( I don't lump the Chevy II in with the Nova, because that like lumping the Falcon in with the Mustang or Maverick) The duece did come with the 327 and 396 options and those trim level cars could be considered as collectible or possibly classic. Most people probably won't have anything good to say about a Nova either, unless they were racing them at the time.

Things like the Chords and Auburns and Duesenburgs will forever be classics because of the revolutionary engineering that went into them and the level of refinement and sophistication. Super charged V12s, headlights that turn with the wheel, front wheel drive... If you're ever on I69 in the northeast corner of Indiana with nothing to do, I highly recommed stopping by the Auburn-Chord museum.

Anyway, I got way off topic.

Mavericks were great because they did what they were supposed to for the least amount of money. Plus they were easy to mod and could be made very fast. With the right wheels, tires, paint, and stance they can even look good. It's a hell of a hot rod.

 

Not sure what the proper term is for my 74 ... but every part on there is an original FORD Maverick part .....

 

First off.....


Now then.....if I had listened to my mother all the years I was tinkering with hot rods I would be driving some gawd-awful euro-trash or a Cadillac.

If you like the Maverick....that's all that matters. They're fun, easy to work on, can be relatively good on fuel mileage, and they're cool when done right (refer to the picture of Dan's car in one of the above posts). I've been catching all kinds of hell from friends and family since I started looking for a Maverick a while back. Same hell I caught from the same friends and family over my Fairmonts too. Kinda funny....those Futuras were fun, easy to work on, good on fuel mileage and cool.

Gather some pics from this site and show them off to Mom. Or Dad. Dad would listen. Mom's don't listen. They think you should study accounting, play golf on the weekends and drive a minivan.

 

That describes me perfectly right now. Arms are bruised up to the elbows, two fingers WITHOUT cuts, cut on the back of one leg (I wear shorts and flip-flops in the garage), some kind of huge stonebruise on foot and I don't know what I stepped on...But that car is my life right after my wife and dog...and as soon as I get some work done this morning, I will get that damned header in and get it running again

It just makes cruising around this weekend (or test and tune if the track opens after all our rain) THAT much more fun, and I feel very proud of my car, and the attention it draws, despite it's multitude of colors and mis-matched body panels.

 

thomas hit the nail with the "RCF" club! anybody with 100k to throw at their car can have a bunch of other people come "pimp" their ride. Its the guys who see the finished product when they look at the car, and take it there from a dented up piece of abused transportation that really appreciate it. I got my first mav (a yellow 4 door) when i was 17 and ive had the grabber since i was 18 (18 years ago). I wouldnt trade either for any other car! as for your moms view of mavericks, take her through the picture gallery. If that doesnt change her view, oh well at least youll have gotten some ideas. in a few more years youll be on your own and each day when you leave your house and the mav stirs your adrenalin for the day youll be happy you have it.Trust me on this!!

 

For them to be ugly, evey time I pull the Comet out I have to hear people tell there stories of the past with Mavericks involve. Everyone has a story when it comes to these cars & even then people says that those was so fast little cars. It trips me out too. And younger guys always ask what is it, then say thats a clean car. I have never had anyone tell me something bad about this car. Plus like the guts say, for a working man, this is a project that can still be finished over a little time.

 

It's a "bastard" (LOL!!!). 'Looks good though....

 

I don't give a rat's @$$ what people used to say about the Maverick. Some people here assume that because the Maverick eventually became collectable after all of the disrespect it got, that the same thing will happen with cheap Hondas and the like. Well I don't assume that at all. There's a reason that the Maverick eventually became collectable, and it's not simply because it's over 30 years-old. Also; a Honda can never be a classic American car. It may become a classic in Japan (although I doubt that too), but not here...