FORD 428 Cobra Jet Maverick Recovery - 10 Second Old School Toy

This picture compilation is the Big Block 428 FE Maverick over the last 23 years from 1986 to 2009. Pics from when it was bought and built in 1986, then sold (traded-off) in 1992, then dismantled and lost in a barn, then back to us in 2008 for recovery. Thanks for watching!

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[rms5324]

Came on the car in 1986. It is the "Grabber" tail and endcaps. There are three different ones, the four door has no lip, the grabber the tallest. There is an intermediate lip.

[rms5324]

Correct for what?

[Navajas440]

Did the Mav./Comets have a rack and pinion steering setup stock ?

[rms5324]

@Navajas440 No, that was added MANY years back and has gone through some changes over the years. It's all "old'school" meaning lo-buck engineering. Spindles were swapped L/R and rack mounted......Bump steer is crazy.

[hotrod7043]

Gotta be Bob Sherwoods old car

[rms5324]

Who is Bob Sherwood and when would he have owned it? We can trace this car back prior to 1986 in CA.

[A1mustang66]

hey awesome job with the maverick!!.. i have a 1970 maverick and wasm wondering were you bought the back fin, i been looking for one, if you can please reply that will be great, thank you.

[TheGypsyChef]

refresh my memory fe were the head castings correct?

[Sidewinder428]

@capriracer351 I've got a similar story. Mom had a 1967 Falcon SportsCoupe with a 289 in Britney Blue she bought new and I wanted that car. 'Bout to turn 16 and get my license and the Falcon was sold to someone when I got home from high school one day and was replaced with a VW Bug. Devastating, just devastated - I was. I'll never get over that.

[Sidewinder428]

Love the 'ol LTD and the Country Squire in the background.  True American photos.

[Thirdgen83]

Awesome car. I hate that steering wheel though ('sorry!)...

[capriracer351]

Excellent job on the car. Believe it or not, my earliest memory as a child was REFUSING to get out of the back seat of my Dad's 69 1/2 Maverick Grabber after he traded it in at the local Ford dealership for a '71 Torino. It took both him and my mother to drag me out of there kicking and screaming :) I was a gearhead from the start and will be until the day I die!!