Went to a car show today at a car restoration shop. The foreman was walking around and asked if the Maverick was mine. He was like I remember Mavericks. He said he worked for a body shop in the 70's and the owner of the shop used to have him go to car auctions and buy Mavericks because they were cheap. Whenever they were slow on work the owner would have them fix up a Maverick, add stripes, two-tone them, anything to make them look sporty and then sell them in the parking lot for a profit. Pretty wild ...
I bet a lot of shops did the same thing, probably some that still do with newer cars. A friend of mine's son works in a place that buys insurance cars and rebuilds them. When they get finished with one, it looks like nothing ever happened to them. He was working on a late 90's or early 00's Cobra a while back, had to replace all the sheetmetal from the windsheild forward. They were waiting for the front header panel when I saw it, with the new paint, you couldn't tell it had ever been hit.
