I was bored tonight...so I started glancing through all the pictures from the 18th Annual MCCI Roundup Nationals in the gallery. Here is the gallery: http://mmb.maverick.to/gallery/browseimages.php?c=153 I noticed a BUNCH of Grabbers...and for that matter, a few GT's, Sprints, and Stallions, so I decided to count them all up and see what we had. Not only did we have (14) real Grabbers....but we had an example of EVERY year Grabber ever produced!! Breakdown by year: 1970: 2 1971: 2 1972: 6 1973: 2 1974: 1 1975: 1 Add to this that we had (3) Comet GT's, (2) Sprint's, and (2) Stallions (O.K....one Stallion was a "clone" ).....and we had some rare cars all assembled in one location. Pretty cool. Now maybe I will go back and count up all the different colors of Grabber's we had.
O.K.....so I went back counted colors. Just in the Grabbers and GT's: 12 different colors!! A true rainbow of colors!!
Noice. I read a guys blog one night when i was bored.. he had parted and crush some like 20 mavs.. and 5 or so were grabber originals... Made me angery... Yeah they weren't mint but they weren't sitting at the bottom of a lake for 40 years!
Tales of crushing a pile of cars are a bit off-topic, ya think? Back to the subject at hand ... the Roundup was a treat for the eyes of anyone who loves these cars like we do. My favorites are the tri-color combos of paint/stripe/pinstripe, and we had three different examples of that present.... a very "70s thing" ... you wouldn't see that out of Detroit today.
I don't know if Grabbers necessarily fit into the "rare" category. There were 138,635 Grabbers built between '71 & '75, plus whatever percentage of the nearly 600,000 '70 models. Nearly 20% of the '71-'73 2-door Mavericks sold were Grabbers. Nothing against Grabbers, but it was just a high-volume stripe and do-dad package. Some folks on here get all worked up on whether or not a Maverick is a "real" Grabber or a clone. I'm sure I made alot of friends with this post!
It just seems whenever you tell ANYBODY you have...or had...a Maverick, the FIRST thing they ask is: Is it a Grabber? It seems to have a mystique of some kind. Even on here....people will give a little more value ($$$) to a real Grabber versus a clone or a regular Maverick. I personally don't care either way. A sharp car is a sharp car. I just found it interesting as I was going through all the pictures how many of them were REAL Grabbers and GT's...so I just had to count them.
I could care less, I'm going to buy a cosworth vega!! I wonder what percentage of surviving Mavericks are true Grabbers?
There is a guy near me that has (4) Cosworth Vega's. (2) black, (1) Maroon, and (1) blue. He goes to the Cosworth Vega Nationals every year and has won Best of Show many times with one of his black cars. VERY NICE car. They stickered for more than a Corvette when new!!! Now...back on topic: It would be curious to see how many Grabbers are still out there....and whether they survived at a better percentage than regular Mavericks.
