![]() The dash, seats and door panels are very nice, with only a few ripples in the door panels. The interior of this Maverick is excellent. ![]() Find it here on craigslist out of Monaca, Pennsylvania. With an asking price $8,000 we are enticed by this muscular Maverick. In beautiful shape, this Grabber looks to have only covered around 65,000 miles. This Maverick is optioned with the “Grabber” package, which added some neat features to the Maverick. Wish he kept it.When thinking of muscle cars, the Maverick is not usually the first car that comes to mind. You couldn’t keep that little thing on the road. My friend just added a Holly 4 barrel carb and manifold setup plus a set of hooker headers which transformed the car into a monster. The quarters and floors were rusty but the original paint still looked great. Those were the days you could sit across the street from the junkyard and see what interesting cars are being towed in. The junkyard manager came out yelling at us for making the deal in his parking lot so we had the tow truck driver get it out of that yard quick! I guess the manager was ticked off we beat him to it. We were in the right place at the right time. The car was being sold to the junkyard for 50 dollars so we offered the guy 100 dollars as it was coming into in the junkyard parking lot so naturally he jumped at the offer. White with black stripes and a red interior. My friend had the Comet GT version of this Grabber. ![]() Are any of you as taken with this Maverick Grabber as I am? What’s the selling price going to be for this gem? It runs and drives great according to the seller who mentions having the carb rebuilt recently as well as having some brake work completed. It doesn’t stop there, this car also has the top engine for the time, Ford’s 302 cubic-inch V8 which would have had 210 horsepower and 296 ft-lb of torque. The seats look perfect both front and back and the underside looks rock solid. This one is a 3-speed and according to Hemmings, whether they were automatics or 3-speed manuals, it was optional to have a floor shifter. All I can say is the original owner was about as cool as it gets. GA! I know, most of us expected to see an automatic shifter on the hump, not a manual transmission. The son inherited it from his mother who bought it in 1972 and used it for short commutes to work and back. The seller recently bought it from the original owner’s son. It’s a southern California car and has been since it was new. ![]() This car looks absolutely amazing but the seller does say that it had one repaint in its original color, an “older repaint” at some point years ago and I can’t imagine it looking any better than it does. After having grown from a trim-level in the 1970 Mavericks to their own model the following year, the Grabber lasted until 1975. ![]() Sorry for going overboard on this Grabber but please check out the photos and I think that most of you will agree that it basically has it all, or close to it. This really is the little-old-lady-from-Pasadena car – although in this case, she was from Torrence. It just seems too good to be true but it is true. This Grabber is located in Artesia, California, the current bid price is $10,488, and there is no reserve. As I was going through the photos, I was almost laughing out loud and not in a bad way but in a good, exciting sort of way, or maybe a crazy way as I’m sitting here by myself. The seller also has it listed here as a Barn Finds Classified. The more I look at this 1971 Ford Maverick Grabber the more I’m in disbelief that there’s no reserve on the eBay auction seen here. ![]()
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