10/7/2023 0 Comments 72 maverick grabber toyBut what Jeff had not known was I had bought a wrecked 76 that had a 351 Winsor with a 4 speed, and had just placed it in there a couple of weekend before. So at the time it was a miss matched body panels and had not been painted yet. Well one day we got into a debate over who’s car was faster his or mine, at the time I was working on rebuilding a 74 Gran Torino, that came from the factory with a 302, (which had blown up before I bought the car) and was rebuilding the body damage, from the wreck after the motor had blown and the Lady that owned it ran it into a ditch because the motor had hand grenade it self and it scared her so much. Jeff worked to make his Grabber a Muscle car, he had spent a fortune on after market parts perfornce. I ran around with a buddy named Jeff Dalton in High School and he had the exact same Maverick Grabber, same color, with a 302, auto tranny, but his only had the steering column shifter. Have any of you owned a Maverick Grabber? The gas tank has also been refurbished and the brakes have been gone through. It could use a good detailing under there and an attempt to stop or at least slow down that creeping rust. It “Runs great, drives excellent”, according to the seller. Ok, that’s not exactly muscle car territory but by 1972 most cars have begun the long slide to mediocrity, power-wise. Here’s the 200 cubic-inch inline-six which would have had just over 9o hp. A 3-speed manual, also column-shifted with optional floor shifter, was the other transmission. All modification were done with original or NOS parts.” I’m assuming that it was always a C4 automatic which would have been operated with a column shifter if the optional floor shifter box wasn’t checked. Have ALL the original parts that were taken off of the vehicle. Also, they say that it was “Converted to the floor shifter. All plumbed to firewall.” It doesn’t work as there doesn’t appear to be a compressor or condenser or any other AC parts under the hood. The seller purchased this Grabber from the second owner and they say that they “changed the dashboard to install air conditioning. The ’72 Mavericks still had the nice, small bumpers. She quit school, the car went into the garage.” I wonder (doubt) if that would happen today? As they say, “Don’t be a fool, stay in school.” It only has 20,323 miles on it thanks to the dropout daughter. The seller says that the “Original owner bought for daughter as transportation for college. I don’t get it, but I’m someone who likes lime green and orange for car colors. I would argue that tv reality shows (insert random, grinding guitar sounds here) have played at least a small role in locking in black as the tough-guy color. This survivor is located in Armada, Michigan and it’s listed on eBay with a $16,900 buy it now price or you can make an offer.ĭon’t get me wrong, I love black cars as much as the next person does, it’s just that I don’t think that having a black car automatically makes a person meaner or makes their vehicle tougher than any other color/tone would. Since when did Count Dracula make the rules on car color? Whether this 1972 Ford Maverick Grabber is considered a muscle car or not is up for debate, but give me a bright color, or any color, over black any day. I love the era when having a muscle car didn’t automatically mean that your car had to be murdered-out in all-black.
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