What did you pay for your Mav or Comet

If anyone knows of a halfway decent mav or comet for $1000 bucks tell me and I will take a bus and go get it....

I have read about 3 dozen posts of members saying they got these dirt cheap mavericks and I am just like "Where the hell is mine?"

I paid $950 for my 2 door 76 inline 250...Didn't run great, doesnt run at the moment but getting there

Working on getting 74 grabber around $500

 

I just got my 70 Maverick a couple of weeks ago. I paid $2K cash. The body is in excellent shape, new brakes all around, new MC. New fuel tank and fuel pump. Interior is in average shape. New paint, but not a professional job. Original 160 I6 with auto. Drove 140 miles to see it and drove it home, ran good.

Years ago I bought my first maverick for $900. It was a 76 2dr with 250 and auto. I loved it, and have wanted another since.

 

I got mine in 1997 from my Uncle for $400 who then loaned me $3000 to get the engine rebuilt and the exterior painted. What a guy!

 

i got mine off craigslist the add read as fallowed 1973 grabber call for more info no price nothing! called him he emailed me pics turns out this car was a beauty the girl who owned it before him raced it at colorado's drag strip picked it up for 1000$ 302 with so many mods only thing it was missing was the valences! the pic on my profile is from the email he sent me!

 

I saw mine in the Carolina Bargain Trader magazine in the bargain hunter section, the section with no pictures. It was listed for $500.oo, bought it for $300.oo. 250 six cylinder c-4 auto, dead battery, fire ants in the front seat where it folds. I had to use the can of either that I carried with me to start the car, to kill the ants. Put a battery in it, and a splash of gas, and it fired right up, and ran great. I drove it home 1 1/2 hours, and it ran as if I had been driving it forever. Thus began the on going saga.

 

found mine in a storage facility off of I-10. almost broke my neck as i caught it out of the corner of my eye. anyway it had been sitting there forever with the windows down. tucson has crazy heat and monsoon floods. paid $400 had to tow it home with a flat bed truck (4flats). gut everything! thats why when i refer to it as a baket case you know what i mean. but i love to drive these cars. so i keep working ion her!

 

Found my '74 pretty far north into Washington on Craigslist almost three years ago. 14 hour round trip to get it due to our trailer lights going out on the drive up. We had to rewire it about 45 minutes into Washington which was a huge pain, but so worth it! Paid $1500 which was the seller's asking price and I honestly think I got a pretty good deal. Car was totally stock with a 250 that ran just fine. The only things I've done to the car since have been replacing front suspension components, replacing the bench seat with buckets from a 94 Ford Windstar minivan, adding a glasspack muffler, and adding a battery disconnect switch. Car has descent paint and some rust areas that concern me, but nothing too major. I just haven't had the money to do a proper tear down and rebuild yet. I'd like to complete it before I graduate college in 2015 because Army life after is probably not going to be conducive to rebuilding a car.

 

• '77 4-Door Not running $100 (1993)
• '77 2-Door Running Motor $50 (1994)
• '75 4-Door No Motor, Good Body $50 (1994)
• '70 2-Door 36K, LF damage + 77 parts car $750 (2000)
• '71 Grabber 19K Survivor $4500 + $2000 ship/tax/customs (2012)

All of my cars were (are) 6-cylinder cars. I only have the Grabber now. The rest are RIP

 

Paid 750 it was sitting in a old barn for years.. Fresh gas and battery it started right up, 302 floor shift GT.. Looked like only mild dings and rust. That's when I started to strip it and found gallons of bondo just poured into the quarters, and many other places. It's way different now and being torn down for the 2nd time to fix the things I was just too inexperienced to do at that time.

 

Back in 2007 I paid $1300 for my all stock running 1970 auto 200Ci with 102k
Drove to San Diego with a friend and rented a u-haul trailer. All said and done, it was about $1700-1800.

Pic on the left is at a rest stop on the way home from San Diego

 

825.00 for mine fixed a gas line put a new battery on it fired right up now its torn into a million pieces being restored

 

$1,600.00 in 1983.

 

about 4 months ago i spotted my soon to be '77 2-door maverick. I am the 3rd owner of this car. my parents paid $500 for it and called it "a very early graduation gift". i'm starting to think it's more of a christmas gift lol. it has an almost perfect interior(only 1 small tear)and a 200 i6 that needs a new head gasket. plan on picking it up either today or tomorrow

 

600+ttl

The three children of the deceased great grandmother wouldn't let me "have" it, so that was an easy to split three ways price.

 

I paid a whopping $2,100 for my super solid '71 GT roller/without engine.

Some might say I paid too much.. but it's an extremely rare car with a factory red top with virtually no rust. Even the area below the moderately rotted battery tray is only surface rusted with most paint remaining and has a barely enlarged rear well drain hole on the left rear.

I also factored in the proximity to my house(less than 20 miles) and the fact that my AAA towing covered the cost of getting it into my driveway.

Lately I'm really struggling to decide if I should be cutting and chopping it all to hell for the sake of restomodding and racing it. Now I'm toying with the idea of just a basic restoration with moderately modded 302 to enjoy until I can sell it off or trade for another one with less rarity. I grew up a Ford guy and really hate to see these lower production cars chopped up for personal reasons. Then again.. if I don't do it.. maybe someone else will eventually cut it anyways?