Return Home For those of you who don't know the story, let me tell it from the beginning. The Maverick has been in our family since 1980. It was my mothers car and even stock it would smoke the tires. When my mother went blind in 1990, she gave the car to my sister so that she could drive my mother back and forth to dialysis. I lost my mother in 2000, and my sister offered to sell me the car. I bought it, and placed it in storage for a year while I was stationed in Korea. I was transfered to El Paso and the car was my daily driver for about 2 years. When I was transfered to Ohio, I put the car back into storage in Alabama. I looked on the internet and found Street Rod Garage in Grant, Alabama. He has had the car since August 2003. The final cost is 68K. There has been a lot of ups and downs with the car. The axles took 16 weeks to be delivered, and there was way more rust on the vehicle than we had antipicated. The upper frame rails and the entire front of the passenger compartment was rusted out. The drivers floorboard was a 55 mph sign that had been welded in. But, the hardest part is out of the way and now the only major hurdles are the distributor is about 1/2 inch too tall. Everything you see in the engine compartment in underneath the stock grabber hood. The wiring, drive shaft and interior are all the major parts left to do. If anyone has any questions, feel free to reply. Thanks for listening. Steven K. Reed Captain, USAF Lackland AFB, Texas
your car looks very good, what a way to keep you car going and honor your momma,good luck with the build, if it makes you happy and its what you want then money is no object.
Re: distributor I don't know what brand they are putting in your motor, but I had a clearance issue with a Mallory Unilite. A local parts dealer told me he could send it back to Mallory and they would machine the top down for the cap to sit lower. I ended up using a breather spacer simply b/c I didn't want to take the distributor out of a running car. They only wanted somewhere around $50 to do it. Just a thought. It looks nice from the pics. Seth
that looks like one bad a@@ car... 68K?? OUCH!.... for that i would have had Boyd Coddington fix it up.. lol.... cant wait to see the rest of the car and see it on the track.. make sure you get video of it.. \ good luck
Not everybody does there own work. To restore a car from groundup that is perfect costs alot of money. I know a guy who does this for living and 90k and up is the norm. He does stock concourse resto but you get the point. Labor isn't cheap. I think 68k for having somebody else do it on a professional level is fair. That mav looks awesome. You need to get some video of it in action!!!!!
Car is looking great! You may consider using a crank trigger ignition system then you can use a low profile distributor such as 8377 from MSD since it appears to be a 460. http://www.msdignition.com/dist_49.htm
