If you could have one car back from the past

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  1. Shorty

    Shorty Member

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    Mine would only be my '71 Maverick Grabber in Grabber Yellow. I purchased it with a six, 3-speed on the floor, black bucket seat interior when it was two years old. When I got home from active duty, Dad, my brother and I swapped the drivetrain to a 302 (Windsor), a top loader 4 speed and 9" 4.11 posi rearend from a Boss 302. Later I swapped in a warmed-up 306. When it developed rust I chickened out and stripped it, cut it in three big pieces and took it to a scrap yard. I used the drivetrain in a pro-streeted '76 F100 Flareside. Is it possible to find a decently priced, not rusted out '70 to '73 Maverick?
     
  2. Maverick Man

    Maverick Man The Original Maverick Man

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    Two 1973 LDO Mavericks (one 4 Drag one 4 driving like Mad on the roads :) ) also have a 75 6cyl Stock! Ok, well sort of Stock :P
    pantera hands down! and yes it wouldn't be stock!

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    Of my cars it would be my '68 Fairlane formal roof (first car in 1976) or my 10 second '88 Mustang that I sold in 2000 after losing my job (panic attack).:cry:

    Dream cars: Grabber Blue '70 Boss 302
    Black '40 Ford Deluxe Coupe
     
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    Bob Wiken Chronologically Gifted

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    My '67 pontiac LeMans. 326 w/ powerglide. Paid $1200 for it in 1970. Drove it for 7 years and 70K miles. Sold it for $100
     
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    I guess it would be my first of two '57 Ford Fairlane.
    Of course it wouldn't have the 292 in it any more. It would have a 427 in it and the Borg Warner four speed would be replaced with a Ford Toploader with the large input shaft.....
    It was bad enough with the 292 but My tastes have changed a bit.
     
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    lotta people had mopars! intresting
     
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    I've always loved my friend's Mazda6 but he sold it when he've decided that he wanted to migrate in another country and needed extra bucks. I'd been driving it for some time when we're still together. I was even the one who bought a Mazda tailgate handle for it. If only I had much money that time, I would have been the one who bought it form him.
     
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    Well, I've owned over 150 cars since I started driving, and the majority of them were classics and muscle cars......

    But I'd have to say my 69 Camaro RS/SS 396 Indy Pace Car convertible
     

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