Was your first car a Mav?

'72 Mav (200/6 w3/speed) was my first car. I was fourteen years old (1982) and paid $250 for it. My Dad drove it to work everyday and helped me "fix it up" until I was old enough to drive. I was wondering how many people had a Mav for their first car. Oh the memories of youth.:confused:

 

yep had it for 22 years now....

 

First is a relative term.
First car I bought: 58 Thunderbird
First car I had on the road: 57 Fairlane 500
First car I wrecked: 61 Falcon
First new car I bought: The Sprint!!

It had to be in there somewhere.

 

Yes, my grandfather had given me his 1972 2 door blue Maverick. I got discouraged with it and traded it in. Looking back I had a lot of fun going to junk yards looking for parts etc. My friend had a Sprint, and niether of us even knew then what he had until now. We both just thought it was an odd paint job with a donor gold hood.

A lot of great memories. I should have parked it, until I had the money to do with it what I wanted, but like a lot of us, that may have had a Maverick/Comet for our first car and then got rid of it later, I regret it now. Even though I have other Mavericks now, I still miss my first Maverick! It was a car that I had a lot great ideas for, so I guess now I have a chance to take those old ideas from days gone by and put them into the Mavericks that I have today, but there is none like the first!

One of my second cars was a 74' blue Comet GT, with a 302 and and bucket seats! That was a fun car, but the frames were rusted out on both sides, lucky I didn't kill myself in that thing! I didn't realize the frames were bad until, I decided to sell it, and one side broke clean through!

 

'65 bug....
mavericks came only about 5 years ago. nuthin but good times from them.

 

YES it WAS. And I've also had it for 22 years now.

 

Me too, have had mine for almost 9 years.

 

My grandfather gave me his '74 4dr when I turned 16. It was 12 years old then and looked like it had just rolled out of the showroom. It was the only car he ever bought brand new.

I only had it for less than a year before, in one of those decisions you live to regret, I let a buddy take it for a joyride (with me in the passenger seat), and he promply rolled it. I took the rap for my buddy and never did have the heart to tell my grandfather I let someone else drive the car - He would have been WAY more disappointed to know I had let someone else drive it than he was about the accident itself.

Here's a pic of the car before I got ahold of it. Note the funky threads. On the left is my grandfather and on the right is my uncle. They both passed away a couple years ago within a month of each other. Looks like they were stopped for lunch in this pic; These guys stopped for lunch a lot! I'd love to have that car back, but man, what I wouldn't give to have my grandpa and my uncle back...

 

my Maverick is the first car i bought

I paid $600 for it, and i got two A/C Compressors, a spare Power Steering Pump, A spare Radiator and a Spare 250 CID Six as well as a running car

 

My first car. 10 years and counting.

 

Yup - 74 Comet to be exact - 250 with a 3-Spd on the floor ... LDO bucket interior with Shag ... I was 18 and that car could have told alot of stories

 

Me too...

.. Comet was my first.
20th anniversary will be Feb. 7th.




Seth

 

Yep! Bought a `72 with a 200 and 3 on the floor in 1981.Paid $650.00 for it(I had $300.oo ,Dad loaned me @350.oo)...simply could not blow that engine up! Drove it in the Mud...Drove it on field roads...played Dukes of Hazzard in it on dirt roads...drove it to work and to school every day. Then sold it for $700.00
And bought the Green `72 Grabber I have today in 1983.

 

Don’t know if it falls as first car but I was 15 the first I wanted to fix up it was a 1971 V8 Grabber it was the grabber blue but the paint was not in the best of shape,
I bought a 1969 Pontiac Catalina 4 door from an old lady for 50 bucks it ran that’s about it,
Was at buddy of mine house we was walking over to look it the grabber this kid and his
Dad was working on It put a new timing chain in it could not get it to run,
The kid wanted something that ran joking I told him ill trade him my running Pontiac for It,
I could not drive and could work on the grabber, he said if it ran he would trade
My dad and I took the car over to him he liked it cause it ran, him and my dad went and swapped the titles around my dad got back the kid ask how was we going to get it home he brought out a phone dad had already looked it over but did not work on it till it was in our name he popped the hood put number one cyl on TDC pulled the distributor it was way out and the engine was wired for a SB Chevy about 20 min went buy the kid came back out and said here is the phone that him and his dad had been working on it for days
I will never forget the look on the kids face when my dad hit the key and fired it up we got in and we peeled away with the kids chin on the ground
I spent the whole summer and fall getting parts and fixing it up but never did get to drive it on the street my dad said it was to fast for my first car and traded it for a pickup truck he wanted but it was fun working on it


sorry for so long of a post

 

Yes my first car was a Ford Maverick. It was a 1970 two door with 3 on the tree. I'm on my 5th Maverick now! Below is a photo of me next to my first Maverick I bought for $1000 in 1973.

The photo was taken in Pompano Beach, Florida - March 1975.