WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO Shelby Maverick

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Did anyone notice even if it is a shelby mav the hood and front bumber look like a comet not a mav, so in mexico do there mavericks look like comets? Interesting or just that car

 

Yep, that's been mentioned several times in this thread.

 

I live in Monterrey the Mexican City where they Supposedly made that Shelby Maverick... never saw one of those... the closest thing i ever saw was a 1969 mustang that a guy wanted to sell me and it had that fiberglass(?) things shelby de Mexico put on mustangs coupes to resemble fastbacks. it had 70 taillights. the car was no shelby de mexico but it had pieces of shelby de mexico.
The other one was a white Maverick that had this hood mounted tach that looked original,(like the one in the shelby maverick pic) the car had a consolette and other factory added stuff, i dont remember if it had comet grill because it was before i went into mavericks, it needed a lot of work anyway, i tried to talk to the owner but never find him, the car was a couple of blocks from my house and the door of this guy department was full of eviction notices all over the place. even the car had papers stick to it. never saw this guy. a few months later there was no maverick there. those are the 2 cars that i looked here that had shelby de mexico pieces i guess.

 

by the way mexican Maverick have maverick hood, grill & bumper ...not comet.

 

There were some mexican mavericks with comet taillights though. And ive also seen many with the hood tach, they were available in any dealer is what i heard. And i saw the shelby spoiler on a car in person when i was in Jalisco.

 

somebody please tell chip foose to do a foose mav!

 

I have a question for razorsharp, You mentioned your louvers. I remember when you were selling them. My question is that they did not look like they fit at the bottom of the window, Do we know if the shelby ones fit any better? The ones you had were from what?

 

The louvers I sold (just like the ones on my car now) were made for the Maverick/Comet only. They didn't go any further down the window due to trunk lid clearance. These were originally sold by JC Whitney years ago. I don't recall the name on the louvers right off top of my head but the company has been long out of business.
I just went back and found the rear shot of the Shelby Maverick and it appears there is a bottom louver but it looks to be much lower than the rest. It looks like they may have been made by a different vendor.
Mine has five louvers and so does the Shelby one so I don't know!

 

If you pay the $100,000+ price tag!

 

Thanx for the info, if you run across any other info on louvers please keep me in mind.

 

bad ass.....wish I owned one! and I offically nominate my Stallion for the Chip Foose make-over, but only if it's on overhaulin (as in free)!

 

This thread will NEVER die!

 

I found the Forum through this thread. So it can stay alive all it wants! My uncle just came back from a trip to mexico. But he didn't spot any. I'm going next year. The hunt continues.....

 

keep an eye out for it, it has to be some were id like to know if its still out there.

 

What I've noticed about Shelby is over the last 30 years he's gotten pretty good at marketing his name. Look at the 80's Shelby Z Dodge Daytona turbo. You freaking kidding me, a Shelby Dodge Daytona????

Also, look at the shop who makes the "Eleanor" clone Super Snake mustangs. Shelby has authorized them to call them Shelby's and even allowed them to be part of the Shelby registry. I watched an episode of West Coast Customs and they were building the next Shelby Mustang in cooperation with Foose. Shelby saw the car, drove it, and allowed them to call it a Shelby.

In my opinion, all he's done since the 60s is successfully market his name and that alone. So technically, anything past the late 60's is not a "real" Shelby, but there are a whole lot of fake Shelbys he had no problem sticking his name on.

My $.02