The REAL Story of the Shelby Maverick

Thanks all. When she gets to Florida with the car, I'm sure she'll have it at tons of shows. I'll get her to sign up here so she can stay in touch with theMaverick community and hit those shows as well. It's been making her crazy being away from her car. The last time she was in town she ran into the barn, jumped in the front seat and hugged her steering wheel for ten minutes. As far as the show goes, yeah, there's a lot I can't mention for legal reasons and it was certainly a learning experience. The cool part is, they dropped close to $10k into the car in parts. While they did a lot of damage and did a lot of crappy work, it motivated us to redo it right. Obviously, unlike the show showed, I didn't pay them anything to work in the car. But despite being a pretty bad show, it did get renewed for a second season and they're filming as we speak.

 

I watched the first season, but I'm not interested in watching any future episodes after seeing this.

 

I watched that show one time, they were such dumba$$e$ I never bothered watching again. "Hacks" doesn't even begin to describe them.

 

Glad to hear that you got the car right. Like others, I was done with that show early on ... until they showed the preview of your car. After that episode, I was done for good.

I will be great getting another nice Mav here in Florida. I live on the Gulf side of Tampa Bay.... about 30 miles from MacDill. Can't wait to see it in person and meet her.

 

What a mess! You obviously had a rough time!! I cannot imagine trusting my vehicle to someone like that and getting completely taken with shoddy work.

You guys knocked it out of the park with your rebuild!! So glad to see the car done right, and everyone happy. What an ordeal though. Congratulations on the finished product!!

 

I too cried when I saw what they was doing to her Maverick.

 

Glad I never saw the show and I'm really glad to see that you got the car finished the way you wanted it in the first place - beautiful job

 

Like everyone else here I was dissapointed when I saw the show. Iwas hopeing that they would follow the original lines of the Shelby Mav and show me something new, but as you know... NO!

 

I have to say that I am very happy that you could redo what they destroyed. Best of all , I am glad that your daughter is happy with the car. Looks great.

 

Beware of Body Shops that would lay down Sandpaper on your glass, bad practice! I love the Dash, Dash stripe , and package tray stripe.

 

I was travelling on business and in a hotel room where most of the TV channels were out due to cable issues. Fat and Furious was one of the few things I could get, so I actually sat through a bit of it. I came into the end of the show, so forgive me if I am not 100 percent right here .... Some guy wanted his 1969 Boss 302 to beat his son's new Mustang GT .... so naturally in their minds, the original motor had to go, so they could screw a crate motor in there in it's place. (no talent there .... remove and replace). They also put a modern suspension kit in it. .... and this car was being presented as an original Boss 302.

In my opinion, you do this to a plain-jane 69 Fastback, and let a Boss 302 be what it is.... valuable.

Glad I only wasted about 5 minutes of my life on these guys this time around.

 

I have to agree. Any one can change engines. But to dig in it an change parts that know how an thinking.

 

That's OK, there is a Canadian show, Restoration Garage, and the painted flames on a 69 Shelby....

 

Absolute idiots. Wonder what they would have done with a Boss '9

 

The one, and only, time I watched it they just threw on a set of aftermarket aluminum heads on an engine and didn't check the pushrods for proper length. Of course they were wrong. One guy just kept going on about how they now would have to "take apart the whole top of the engine to replace the pushrods"!
Uh, no, just unscrew the rocker arms. Dumba$$es.