What did you pay for your Mav or Comet

Bought my 73 in Aug. 77 (avatar) for 1500.00. 51000 miles, 302, 3spd., new tires, everything in excellent shape. Just purchased a 74? Comet, no title, 351w and auto trans., bucket seats,decent interior, body not real bad, GT hood, factory Maverick alum. wheels on front,solid alum wheels on rear. spare trans in trunk. 150.00.

 

My 73 4 door was free, had to go to N.J. and trailer it home. Now that I think about it my 74 2 door was free too, a gift from my brother who was moving to Sweden. I've had two other "freebie" mavs and two I paid for for parts. Cheep? ya I guess I'm cheep.

 

650 for mine..

 

Fuzzy Math and RAINBOWS

Well, let's see...

I paid $600.00 cash for mine (running, drivable, inspected, etc...)

The 99 yr old man I bought it from gave me $150 cash back for TTL/tank of gas...so let's see. that's $450.00

I wrecked it 3 weeks later and Progressive totalled it out for $900.00...so that brings it to -$450.00

and I've spent about $300.00 so far, trying to get it road worthy again...

So right now, Progressive Insurance has paid me About $150.00 to park a Maverick in my backyard.



THIS JUST IN: The Mav started/ran this week and would probably drive around the block if I put the wheels back on it. The new (old) radiator is in and when I cranked it up, discovered that the Thermostat housing had a micro fracture in it and he Trans Oil coolant line was pierced...so My Maverick spews a beautiful red and flourescent green rainbow when I start it right now.



AP Out

 

Liberty Mutual wouldn't even bother tottaling my '74 Grabber, said it was basically not worth enough to mess with. They did offer to replace it though.

 

500.00 for the 70 from a retired school teacher in Georgia that put 55,000 miles on it in 34 years, I havn't put a thousand on it yet...havin alot of fun dumping a ton of money in it.
As for Plum Crazy...lets see...car,motor,upgrades,trailer...er...hmmm...I'll have to plead a case of extended temporary insanity ....

 

well for me i saw an ad in the paper
1972 merkeery comet gt
351 w 4sped 1500.00
and yes it was all spelled that way, well when i got there it looked alittle ruff but i fell in love with it just the way it looked, it had a good stance, well of course it had 4 flat tires and had boxes of junk in it. well no one was home so i had to go back later, it was only like afew hours away.
well when i got back the guy was there he showed me the car, it wasn't running very well ok it had a jug in the engine compartment that he put gas in since the gas tank was messed up and he had a leaky 2bbl on it. well i talked him down to 800.00 but i didn't have it on me so i had to wait a week since he was leaving town, well when i went to go get it i ended up having to pay 1000.00 i guess i couldn't hide my desire to well, the tires were dry rotted so they wouldn't hold any air, so i had to go buy four tires and i drove it to this shop that was in that town and payed them to fix it, well that was another 700.00 besides the gas tank it needed a complete brake replacement, everything was rusted and not fixable. well it still ran really bad so i took it home and replaced the cam, intake put a four barrel, timing chain ect, it ran good for like one day, i mean it scared me i was going um well i don't know the speedometer doesn't work well it felt like the car was going to fly, well any way it ended up needing main bearings, and anyway that was 2 years ago, so know i'm sinking in another 2000.00 in it and without replacing the rear end it should be a 12 sec 1/4 mile car. so i guess my first comet is costing me 3700.00 and it still needs a driver door and a paint job

 

My 72 Comet cost me $200.00 18 years ago. Gave that one to Inline6 (got him into the Mav/Comet scene) !! Then I went back to Mopars till I got my 69 1/2 about 3 months ago.

Darrel

 

my comet was given to me about ten years ago when i was 14 years old and even today ten years leter i haven't put a v-8 in it yet but it is coming soon

 

too much for the black one

but the yellow one was basically free

 

So that averages out to about $25, right?

 

Nope. It's permanent.

 

When i was in High School my grandparents were unhappy with the falling apart death trap VW i was driving so they gave me my grandmothers 4door LDO 73 mav, that they bought new, for free. It had factory a/c, 302 and was in excellent condition, and i had always liked the car. drove it for about three years before the wife squeezed it between a tree and a brick wall.
a few months into my marriage, the wife and i were talking about cars and i told her one of my favorite cars had been my uncles 70 mav red and black with a 302. the next day she was walking to the school she was attending and saw the grabber sitting in the parking lot for sale. bought it that weekend for $1200. that was pretty much my whole savings. ended up replacing the radiator within the first year, but that was about it until a good 8 or 9 years later when we had added another 100k of driving to it. at that time a semi backed into it, so i pulled out the hood and replaced the fenders. then i used the insurance money to rebuild/balance the bottom end.drove it only occaisionally until two years ago when i decided to have it repainted and do the top end and transmission. 17 years later and its almost done at around a total of probably 8k for the work i didnt have to do. but its nicer looking and riding than the new focus or subaru that i still couldnt have bought with that much....

 

In 1982....$250 bucks. The old six burned about a quart a week, kept running for years though.

 

replace it for what?