Maverick truck...

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another thing I found strange is the off set plate mount. I found out that bumper comes with the trailer hitch package ($100) without the hitch the plate is in the middle of the bumper.
without the hitch option if you add an aftermarket hitch it will have to be mounted under the bumper.

 

after more looking/talking I have backed off the Maverick truck.
no build dates being sent out and some are for May of next year. those have been on order since July 2021 and are just starting to tell them when they will start building the truck...
if I order now it will be after May before they start filling the orders ahead of me.

 

Isn't it made in Taiwan like the Ford Escape, by people who work for 2 dollars an hour?...

 

...Hermosillo, Mexico ...

 

when I was 14-15 years old I worked for $1.10 per hour/40 hour week...

 

The first hourly paid job I had paid $1.05 per hour.

 

Well now you got me curious. What was the cost of a gallon of gas or a gallon of milk, a new vehicle, a month of rent or the purchase of a new home, a semester of college, a year of health insurance back then?

 

Date line, Aurora- Illinois 1974. First job, (off the farm) union, $1.95 hourly, part time. Gas, .79 cents, lowest I ever payed-.23 cents a gallon, during a local gas war. Milk, don't know, parents concern, I was in Oswego High School at the time. Ordered an optioned up, 74 Comet GT in February, tax-title-license included $3,549. First apartment, 1976-(two bedroom) $195. monthly. New house built in 1977- (3 bed, 1 bath ranch) $44,900. College-?, did not enroll. Yearly health insurance-$0. Employer payed-Union payed 100%, NO CO-PAY.

 

My first job was at Winn Dixie which payed a whole 2.35 hourly. Later I graduated to stocker which paid 5.25 hourly. Back then although part time work was great for a high school kid. There was a taco joint across the street so much of my funds went there.

 

Nice guys, always interesting to see what things cost.

 

traded in a 1967 Chevelle SS , ordered a new 1969 Nova SS $2,832...
1970 bought a 3 bedroom 1 bath house in a 3 year old subdivision...$12,500.
cheapest gas bought .12 cents.

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1970, the year my car was made.
average salary: $9,870
Cost of a new home: $26,600.00
Median Household Income: $8,734.00
Cost of monthly apt rent: $108
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.06
Cost gallon of regular gas: $0.36
Cost of a dozen eggs: $0.62
25" Color TV: $740
Ford Maverick MSRP: $1,995
American Football League joins with the National Football League
The Boeing 747 makes its first passenger flight to London
The Jackson 5 are introduced on American Bandstand
The voting age changed to 18 from 21 years old
Spacecraft Apollo 13 launches into orbit
U.S. troops invade Cambodia during the Vietnam war
Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin died from an overdose, and the Beatles dissolve their band
Kent State Ohio Shooting by National Guard