If Mavericks/comets never existed....

Asking Bill Gates to adopt me!

Then I would have a Stuckey Mobile! Thank sweet cheesecake the Maverick was born!

 

72 javelin,60s,70,s mustangs.

 

I know of a '74 Charger, in great shape, for $2k. Retired folks just wanting to get rid of it. I'd build that one for my cousin. Also found a '68 Mustang coupe in great shape, that I almost got for free, a while back. No drive train, but, I have a 460 (pronounced: "future blown 514") in the back yard for that. Still have a shot at that car, though. I'd build that one for me.

Eric

 

It would definitely be early Mustang for me. Back in the early 80's, I owned 45 of them at one time. The reason for that though was that I owned a Mustang Restoration business then. Seemed like every time I turned around somebody was selling me one out of there back yard for $100-$200 bucks. Man...those were the days. I actually bought a 1967 Shelby GT350 complete with the hipo 289, toploader, 9" rear for $1500 bucks in 1982. The car had caught on fire in the rear and burnt pretty badly. Can you believe I parted that car out??? The data plate and bill of sale alone brought me a grand 18 years after I sold the rest of the car. I just happened to come across the plate and b.o.s. in an envelope one day and put it on eBay for the heck of it. Oh well, I guess somebody out there somewhere has a bogus 67 Shelby.

 

I'd proably had been interested in 80's Malibus and Montecarlos, Fairmonts, 80s-90s Thunderbirds, Valiant Dusters, maybe a SN95 stang, don't know really...Thank God We got Mavericks!!!

 

57 Fords!!

 

Other Fords

If not for Mavs and Comets, I have always loved 70 Mustangs, and really like 67-68s too. I am also fond of 70-71 Torinos, and owned one prior to my first Comet. It is likely I would have actually bought the 71 Torino Convertible that I was considering in 1983. The car was pristine, had around 50,000 miles on it and could have been had for $2800. It was a 351 car, and while it was soooo pretty, it was also a large car and I "wanted something faster" at the time, so I dove deeper into my first Comet.

It was only the next year that I found that total convertible production for that Torino body style (70 and 71) was only 1400 cars. 600 one year and 800 for the other.

I'd probably still have it.

 

Since Mustang's are now out of my price range, I would be building my 4th V8 Pinto.

 

Probably a 60-64 Falcon or another 64 Comet. 67 Fairlane or 69 Troino and last but noy least either a 29 Ford truck or my 72 F100 4X4 stepside (it is in line after my Maverick).

 

70-71 Torinos

 

I was looking for a Fox body mustang when I found my Mav so I guess I'd be tinkering on one of those

 

Turbocharged 4 cyl pinto!

 

Ok call me strange but ever since Burt Renold's movie , (it was either Gator or Whitelightning), he is driving a 71 LtD 2 door, saw that movie when I was a kid , I'd love to have one of those cars. Somthing about a car chase that just gets my blood boiling, ?Love how he lured the cop to chase him thorugh a cornfield then parked down a bank of a pond, and the cop sailed over his car into the pond!

 

It was "White Lightening." That started my love affair with the '71-'72 Galaxies/LTD's. Burt's was a Galaxie, by the way.

If it weren't for Mavericks, I would be into these cars in the order:

1. '66-'67 Fairlanes and Comets
2. '66 Galaxies (have one)
3. '66-'71 Buick GSX
4. '56 Crown Victorias and Mercury Montclairs.

 

I stand corrected, i did have a 66 Galaxie Station wagon, in 1983 with a 490? or was it a 460? anyway bought it 4 $500 had a very solid body, 2 funny stories after i bought it was checking things under the hood, heard this strange crackling noise while it was running, lookid a little colser and could see a saprk arking formt eh plug wire to the block. I replaced those plug wires and it felt like I had installed a turbo on that dang thing, it ran like a scalded cat! Ok fast for ward to Janauary
On my way to an interview, I gotta make that yellow Light, Dropped down to 2nd, smashed the accelerator, and simultaniously blew out several freeze plugs, Let me tell you in 10 below temps it looked like a horizontal launch of the space shuttle!!
I spent the next day out doors ( no garage) grinding out the rusted and seized remains of those freezplugs. Wish I still had that car.