New Member (sort of) with a '72 Grabber

I actually joined the forum back in 2007 and finally after 6 years I bought a Maverick!!

I owned a couple of Comet GT's back in the late 80's-early 90's. One was a '71 that was lime green with black stripes and a 200 6 cylinder automatic and the other was a '73 that was white with red/orange stripes and a 302 and 3 speed in the floor.

My uncle bought a really nice Grabber Blue with black stripe '71 Grabber last year and that really got me looking again.

A couple of weeks ago I found a '72 Grabber that is a factory 302/C4 car. It is an unusual color combo. It is Medium Bright Yellow with light green/dark green Grabber stripes and has black bucket seats and automatic in the floor.

I have spent the past couple of weeks cleaning and detailing the car to get it into presentable shape. It has a little bit of rust at the bottom of the passenger side front fender and some dents and dings but is overall a pretty solid car!

It has a 302 roller motor with an Edelbrock Torquer intake and a Holley 600 carb. It has an aftermarket cam, but I don't know the specs. The car has long tube headers with complete 3" exhaust with H-pipe, Flowmasters and tailpipes over the axles and tucked behind the rear wheels. The car has a really nice 'hit' at idle and sounds really good!! It has an MSD billet distributor and 6AL ignition and an aluminum radiator.

The C4 has a nice shift kit and trans cooler and the 8" rear had 4.62 gears with a mini spool in it. I found another center section and swapped to a set of 3.40 gears and reused the mini spool. The 3.40's will make the car MUCH more highway friendly!

I bought a new set of Weld Rodlites in 15x4 and 15x8 (4.5 BS) and have 165/80/15 Nankang's on the front and 255/60/15 Cooper Cobra Radial GT's on the rear.

Looking forward to playing around with the car!!

Here are some pics of the car after my two weeks of work.













He is a picture with my uncle's '71 Grabber at a cruise-in last weekend.

 

What a cool pair of Grabbers!!!

 

clean looking car...

 

THAT is a nice colour combo!! Congrats!

 

Nice looking ride!!!!!

 

Nice find - love the color combo

 

Cool looking car. I think 3.40s are ideal for a street driven Maverick without an overdrive transmission. Right in the sweet spot of too much and not enough.

 

We really need a like button on this site. Love the color combo and of course the rest of the car also

 

really nice, congrats! hope you enjoy it alot!

but as i heard, the coil should be installed vertical, that the liquid can cool it properly!!

 

Great looking Grabber.....

 

to the board..... Like the color combo...

 

Thanks for the compliments and welcome guys!! I think I'm going to really enjoy te car!!

Also thanks for the tip on the coil placement! I will fix that this weekend.

 

As has been said, nice colors! I am amazed that you could remember your log in and password after all this time, I forget mine monthly but then I am getting old.

 

Thanks!!

The only reason I could remember my log-in info is because I use the same SN and password on all of the car forums that I'm a member on. So if you see z28th1s on another site that would be me!

 

Very Nice