What's up all, I've been a member for a while but this is my first post. Let's see here's my cars bio: 1969 ½ Ford Maverick 200 C.I. inline 6 cyl. with factory air conditioning Wimbledon White with Medium Blue interior This car left the Kansas City plant on August 12th 1969 destined for Snapp Motor Company in Walnut Ridge Arkansas. It was sold 8 days later to Zelda Atkinson who received 100.00 trade in allowance on a 1958 Chevrolet and paid the 2300.00 difference in cash. After only 2 weeks she took the car to Jonesboro Auto Body Works and had it painted Light Blue. She drove the car for 10 years afterwards and only clocked 12,250 miles on the odometer before parking it in her storage shed due to having severe arthritis in her arms and no power steering on the car. It was driven occasionally by her daughter and nephew who took it to Florida for 4 years to attend college racking up another 25,000 miles. After college it returned home and sat in the shed another 15 years covered and on blocks. Mrs. Atkinson died in 1999 and her daughter sold the car to Al Malone of Jonesboro Arkansas. Mr. Malone replaced the battery and drained and refilled the gas tank and it started up and made the 30-mile trip back to Jonesboro with no problem. Mr. Malone being a retired car enthusiast wanted to restore the car back to its originality and add a 302 V-8 engine. The first place he started on the car was the interior, replacing the carpet and cloth panels in the seats. The next order of business was to upgrade the suspension to five lug axles and disc brakes with a heavier front sway bar in order to support the added weight of the new engine. Mr. Malone also had the car painted back to its original color and replaced some weather stripping and pitted chrome pieces on the exterior. After many upgrades and over 6,000 invested Mr. Malone’s health began to decline and was forced to sell the car before the engine upgrade, that’s where I come in. I purchased this car with 53,000 original miles on it for 2100.00, it has every work order and receipt in the dealer provided service pouch, warranty plate, operators manual, tire guide, and original build sheet and invoice. I have since detailed the interior, trunk and engine compartment, replaced front end pieces, all hoses, belts and gaskets and a host of other upgrades. It is a really fun car to drive and gets lots of attention on the road and at car shows, it has won 5 trophies so far in stock class, the latest being "Best Stock Interior" and "Best Engine Detail". I plan on keeping the original Inline 6 engine and adding some performance parts to it, so far I have added an MSD high-energy ignition system, larger CFM carburetor, FSP Performance header,ported and polished head,Comp. 260 cam, heavier radiator and a transmission shift kit and cooler. What's up Josie and Elliot !!!:bananaman
wow. that's neat that you know so much of the history of your car. post some pix if you get a chance. and welcome to the board.
Welcome to the board. That's a cool how you documented the car's history. There are probably very few of us who know the full histories of our cars. Sounds like you have yourself a winner.
Here are some pics of some progress How do you post pictures to view? for the time being I have some here....... http://community.webshots.com/user/jberryhill
Man, what an awsome way to join the board! I love it that you have the full background on your car and the pictures show your appreciation for it too! Looking forward to reading your posts, Rick
Luckily I live in a small town, about 30,000 people and everyone knows everybody. As soon as I bought the car people were asking if that was so and so's car? and also the guy I bought it from knew the original owners family and he comes over about once a month to check my progress (he really hates he had to get rid of it! ) I can always find another question to ask him about it and there was also a whole file of reciepts that came with the car. I was running through them to see if the odometer mileage was actual and thats when I noticed some work done in Florida over a few years time, and that's how I found out her nephew took it there to college. I also went back to the original Ford dealer where it was bought (it was closed down) but was directed down the street to the dealer owners son's house and he gave me an old Maverick brochure and post card and an original 1970's vintage Snapp Motors dealer badge that was originally screwed to the deck lids during dealer prep. He said Mrs. Atkinson ordered the car from Kansas City and it was the first one to be sold in Eastern Arkansas. I took the car by her sons house and let the family take turns driving it........they were wiping tears when I pulled from the drive to leave.
Welcome. It's not all that common to have that much history on your car. I believe that it adds to the pleasure of saving and owning a collectible to have that much info. You're pretty fortunate there.
welcome miteemav, I'm 20 minutes up the road from you in Paragould. Maybe we'll cross paths sometime.
