Well, here are the pictures that I promised you concerning the restoration. Personally, I hate small pictures because it's impossible to see what's really going on. So I'm linking to the pictures offsite. Each pic is about 4-1/2 megabytes. Your browser might be set to automatically downsize it to fit your screen, so if that's what you are seeing, then you aren't seeing them in full size. Ask your grandson to fix it for you. http://tinyurl.com/yapaexp May 16, 2008 http://tinyurl.com/yafp95k Feb 18, 2010-1 http://tinyurl.com/ydq8qqh Feb 18, 2010-2 http://tinyurl.com/yc53ldu Feb 18, 2010-3 http://tinyurl.com/ycq795p Feb 18, 2010-4 http://tinyurl.com/y8v8xkh Feb 18, 2010-5 http://tinyurl.com/yemmejp Feb 18, 2010-6 http://tinyurl.com/ya6s74t Feb 18, 2010-7 http://tinyurl.com/yalaz8h Feb 18, 2010-8 http://tinyurl.com/y8n8gk9 Feb 18, 2010-9 http://tinyurl.com/yd7fazl Feb 18, 2010-10
Very nice My first choice for color on my own car was to be orange also. I've since changed over to yellow.
Orange wasn't really considered an unusual color in the 70s. The BeeGees and the Village People were also considered great musical artists back then too. Even back in the 70s though, I thought that the orange color that they used on the AMC Matadors looked kind of weird. --- Serious question: The antenna: Will a 1970s atenna still pick up the new HD radio stations? I want to install the old antenna to keep it old school, but just not sure whether I should actually connect it to a newfangled DVD player/receiver.
You have a very good eye. My 1974 frame had a really nasty rust problem. The car was born in Detroit and lived in the midwest for first 15 years of it's life. I looked at about a hundred different 1974 models in different salvage yards. They were all rusted through. Even in Washington State where they don't use a lot road salt, anything past 1971 just didn't survive very well. Someone told me that they thought the metal made during that time was mixed incorrectly. Significant portions of my 1974 frame were replaced with a 1970 donor car that looked like it had been rolled over in an accident. The quality of the metal from that year is great. I didn't own a 1970 in high school so that's why it isn't going to look like a 1970. I'm the geezer with the cash so I get to do it the way that I want. My goals for the restoration (I think I wrote this before in another message) are 1) a midlife crisis attempt to capture something that I had over 25 years ago; and 2) to turn all the heads of the young girls and old geezers as I drive by. I'm sure when they drag me feet-first out of my office someone is going to change the bumpers back to 1970s thinner style. I'll be dead then so I won't care. The way that the rear bumper is attached (I modified the frame spacers by cutting out about 4 inches and welding it back together again), it wouldn't take more than 2 hours to switch it back. Probably it wouldn't be very good to be rear-ended in an accident at this point. The one thing I am realizing in the whole process of the restoration is that everyone has an opinion and everyone else will have likely have done something different if the car were theirs. With that understainding it doesn't bother me in the least if someone doesn't agree with the choices I have made during the restortation. The point is that choices along the way are deliberate and not accidents. I think that anyone who grew up driving a Maverick probably has a pretty thick skin from that experience. I remember getting teased every other week about my folks not being able to afford to buy a Mustang. Having to hold your own as you are growing up builds character. I'll be adding more pictures next week. I'm about to drop a significant amount of cash on the final batch of parts from autokrafters. Isn't it cool that they make a battery cover now to look like the original battery from the 1970s? I don't remember any of this stuff being available 10 years ago.
We're getting there - slowly but surely I was in Washington State back in 05 and I noticed that there were many older cars still on the road. I was told about the absence of road salt and that's a good thing. I was passed on Route 5 by a 60 Impala. Now how often does that happen? PS: I thought your trunk floor looked familier
HD RX Antenna I installed Dual HD reciever in my car and Im using the factory ant. The radio has the same receptacle as any other radio.
I had the (good/mis) fortune of talking to a radio geek. A stock antenna will work to pick up both analog and digital broadcast. It's up to the tuner to sort it out. However, there are different antennas that are required for CB radio, GPS and cell phones. Most of the newer cars have a "shark fin" on the very back of the roof and an antenna structure is included to serve all purposes. Apparently, in the next few years the antenna shark fin will have gone out of style (except for parts of Central Washington and most all of Iowa). the new technology will be an antenna "patch" on car roofs. The geek told me that it probably should begin to be installed on japanese and european models within the next 3 years. If anybody wants the links to all the boring technical details let me know and I'll edit and post them. There you have it. Now you all know what I know. I'm going to just connect the stock antenna. My 79 Lincoln has an 8 track and a CB. Were 8 Tracks and CBs ever offered as an option on the Maverick?
I was out this weekend looking around for parts. Here are pics of 2 Mavericks out in the bone yard. I was out looking for linkage, steering box and power assist drop bracket for a 74-77 Everything I found was either stripped clean or a 70-73 http://tinyurl.com/yc75usg http://tinyurl.com/yb433b2
Both of those Maverick sure look like they have Grabber rear spoilers. I wouldn't leave them for the crusher.
