Boys big jay got him a 73 maverick 2 door with 34,623 orginal miles

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  1. tim keck

    tim keck truckdrivintrailertrash

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    Hedman 88300 or Hooker 6901, both are long tubes. As long as you have the 250, NOT the 200 the trans will work. I think the Hedman 88400 shorties work too, but if you want to keep the column shift you gotta mod the linkage w/ any of these headers. Good looking car.
     
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    well got the car home ,its going to coopers to have him look at the body work for me then maybe get over to craigs this week and get some parts
     
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    Congrats on the car! That inside looks amazing for its age.:thumbs2:
     
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    up dates guys, took the mav to coopers body shop 1700 plus body parts to fix ,i have a line on a grill ,grabber hood,front fender,grabber rear spoiler,and a few misc items for 500 if hes forreal,said hed call me back when he had them ready for me later this week cooper said to bring the maverick by thursday so they could start fixing stuff and sanding ....still need rims and tires,and cal tracs,ect..gas cap,grill badge, oh yea the dash pad is perfect, wow not 1 crack or anything
     
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    rayzorsharp I "AM" a Maverick!

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    Sounds great!! Like I said before, that's gonna make a real nice car!!
     
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    If it turns half nice as yours razor ill be happy,anyone g:bananamanot the specs for grabber stripes coop is going to hand do them.........i want to think everone for all the info on here now and in the future so everybody knows.........
     
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    Up date guys went to my cousins house and bought a 302 clone boss motor its a 306 with 4 bbl cleaveland heads and intake,built with a steel crank solid lift cam,10 to 1 compression,he ran 10.90s with it in his 68 mustang street car ill be running e85 in it ,ill have a 3800 stall it will be alot of motor but alot easier to slow down a car then speed it up, pics to come later, there not very good ,ill have better after i pick it up friday, i would trade the motor for a nice bad 347 motor just so i dont have to make headers
     
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    Sounds like a sweet motor. You going to tame it down a bit for the street?
     
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    heres pics not good,ill do better friday, the boss guys will make them out im sure, didnt want to try to slide anything by thats not true about the motor so made it clear its a clone.........
     

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    Mavman72 Gone backwards but lookin' forward

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    Lousey pic yeah but... Those look like windsor heads my friend...Is it a boss style block perhaps??? Gonne be a sweet ride though...Good luck!!!
     
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    its def cleveland style heads, look at the front of them ,and i did pull the cover he has 460 rockers on them and its a hyd cam i have since found out with a 575 custom grind cam
     
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    Wow

    Nice find, like that interior very clean:thumbs2:
     
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    Thanks michaeL
     
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    Picked up a 4door 76 maverick. Today nice shape has a v8. Auto will be a parts car or will sell after I get my needed parts off it it is real solid has the tan sadle type interior well the western type interior rear seat perfect front has a few bad places but real good drivers qaility....
     
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    I could be interested if you go this route.
     

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