Good old #69

My best friend back home had a '72 Maverick similar to that.
Originally red, Keith sprayed it a colour close to B5 blue, but left the red interior.
Keith's ride didn't have all that blingy garbage, though. Just a plain Jane Maverick with a very good 302
 
Yeah, that's horrible. It still needs a lot of work, too, never mind the dreadful color combination. The grille has no turn signals or center emblem, the PRNDL is still on the column despite the pathetic fake-4-speed floor shifter, the brake-pedal pad is missing, etc. The lack of attention to detail that concerns me a lot more than the complete lack of taste of the owner/builder. The $14 swap meet electric fuel pump is a confidence-builder, particularly being located so far forward and above tank level. It should provide untold minutes of driving pleasure before it fails.

69.5CUDA said:
are those stock heater controls?...those might fit the empty cure in my console
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Yes.
 
Gina had one of those in High School. It was like driving a go-kart, lots of fun with a little 6-cylinder. They're built about like a go-kart too.
 
Dad had a 302-2V Grabber. I don't remember a lot about it, but it was a 3-speed manual, red on red with no stripes. By the time he got rid of it in '77, it was a rotten deathtrap. I would not be surprised to learn that car went straight to the crusher after trade-in. I have a soft spot for those cars, but the cluster has always been the killer for me: no available gauge packages, no tach, just those two big dials. Forgivable on the Pinto, but Ford really blew it on the Maverick. The replacement Monza had a better cluster... but it didn't last any longer in the Salt Wars.
 
ive got a softer spot for the vegas and pintos than the mav's..and imo the pintos had a much cooler dash

i should see if i can find a mav localy to check out the curve of that heater panel..it just may work..or be "modifiyable" ...not sure how much i like it without seeing it lol
 
My brother was a huge Maverick/Comet fan...we used to pick them up for next to nothing, or free from so many places...seemed we were dragging one home almost every weekend. He found a couple manual 3spd cars and then used those pedals and a warmed up 302/4spd in many different cars over the years. We even found a few Grabber and Comet GT's.

Those are scary and fun little cars with manual steering and brakes and a peppy V8 and 4spd, then toss in a 4.62 spool center section in the little 8" rear axle and they quickly become death traps!! 😬😄
 
69.5CUDA said:
ive got a softer spot for the vegas and pintos than the mav's..and imo the pintos had a much cooler dash
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The Pinto had the same stupid two-dial, no-option cluster layout as the Maverick. You got a speedometer, fuel gauge, and idiot lights. The only dramatic difference was the Pinto's flat dash to the Maverick's deeply-sculpted panel. The Pinto dash's appearance changed over the years (it got worse), but the layout and lack of options remained unchanged throughout the entire model run. The Mustang II dash was an odd, ugly layout, but at least you could get a tach and almost-full gauges (an oil pressure meter was never in the cards).
 
i wonder if the dash in my head is the mudstain 2..mom always wanted one of the cobraII t top white n blue...ive got this image in my head of a to pod cluster arangement..probably a figment of my imagination at this point
 
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