Maverick Convertible ... Another Pic ...

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  1. dmhines

    dmhines Dixie Maverick Boy

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    Not sure if anyone has ever posted the back end of the Maverick Runabout showcar ... pretty hideous! Here is the description of the car:

    Combining a sport look with some of the lines of the classic cars of the 1920's and '30's the Ford Runabaout show car. This is a specially designed Maverick open four-seater with a rear body design reminiscent of the roadsters of the Roaring Twenites. This"bobtail" rear design has externally mounted taillights and a trunk with attaching restraining straps. The spoke design of the wire wheels is a throwback to such old-time great cars as the Stutz Bearcat and Jordan Playboy.

    More modern features included a down-slopping front spoiler mounted below the bumper, a blackout egg crate grille, dual racing mirrors, and an outside tachometer mounted on the hood. Giving an additional touch is the exposed exhaust pipes, housed in a perforated chrome heat shiled and mounted along the rocker panel beneath the door on the passenger side. The color scheme is a dual one: an avocado green hood contrasting with a brilliant yelow body tone.
     
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    I'm ill.

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    Check out those tail lights.. looks like a sport mirror housing turned sideways.

    Might be ugly but I wish I had one...

    Sam :)
     
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    Not even a good parts car!
     
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  5. Jean Doll

    Jean Doll Maverick Restoration Tech

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    It looks nice from the front, but from the back it's just plain UGLY! The designers must have been smoking some pretty serious stuff to come up with that idea.:slap:
     
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    :cry: Wow, no wonder they decided they were not going into production with that!! One look at it and the test audience ran for the hills:D
     
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    Looks like a early 80's model Cadillac Seville was going way to fast when it ran into the back of that Maverick. If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then I won't be holdin' it.:(
     
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    I wonder where that car is now... Super rare, but I'd take it just so I could graft a stock rear-end on it and have a roadster. :evil:
     
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    They prolly scrapped it I know I would with some thing that fugly poor little maverick :cry:
     
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    One side pipe? when was that a trend?
     
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    They spent so much time and money working on that God awfull rear end, they couldn't afford the other side pipe.:D Iv'e seen sway-backed Mavericks before:) ( rotten frames and sagging doors), but that's the first hump-backed Maverick I have ever seen.
     
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    Matt brings up a good point, what does Ford do with this pre-production model cars? Keep them and put them in storage somewhere?

    As far as the Rounabout goes, I can see why it wasn't a hit, but then again they wouldn't have to ask me twice if I wanted it. Compared to the Dragon-Fly Maveick, that I wasn't too crazy about either, but I would take this one because it would be one of a kind Maverick and a convertable! :p I guess I am helpless, got the that bug bad! :D
     
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  14. dmhines

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    I think it is very rare for a prototype or factory show car to survive the crusher.
     
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    told ya :p jk
     
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