FORGOTTEN SEIZED Ford Maverick WILL IT RUN After 26 Years? 

I lost my dad back in 09 and a part of me went with him nothing I wouldn't do to have him back he was jack of all trades miss him every day and I still say in talking to people that are having a issue or problem my dad is great at that sorry was great at that don't never no what will happen in life so live and love b greatful for every day

Can verify this for sure

Try to see him at least once a year if you move away

I've tried and tried to tell my son's this very same comment 1000 times, they won't listen and have grown away from me the older they become, now my wife has pancreatic cancer, so it looks like I'm going to be all alone in the near future? I can't make anyone love me but I've tried, I give up.

Ours was a 65 dodge dart sat for 15 years ran like it was two!

Awesome dad :)

Yes, it's a breath of fresh air when you hear men speak like real men should speak. I guarantee you that if you were ever at my house around my parents or their siblings and you as a child spoke and interrupted an adult as they were having any kind of conversation you were going to hear about it at some point later when you were alone with my parents. I never heard my Father or Mother use a curse word when talking to anyone. They may have cursed at some point but it certainly was not around any children-ever! Manners and respect for your elders and your betters were of paramount concern to my Family in general and it extended on both sides of my parents' families. If and when you have no discipline and no upbringing then you cannot learn manners and you certainly cannot pass it down to your children if you have not learned for yourself. I think our cultural respect for others has been almost completely lost to the past few last generations

@@TBullCajunbreadmaker ya definitely be respectful of the people who mean and do good old or young

You know I just started watching and that’s the first thing I noticed and was actually going to comment on how respectful you are that is seriously a breath of fresh air too not hear constant GDam this and that or f bombs I subscribed for that and the awesome content thanks ,

@@thunderstruck5484 i automatically click away from videos with excessive cursing, no matter if the content may be interesting.

Forgotten cause they're ugly rust buckets. I cringed when they put that floor jack under it, they've been known to completely rust out from the bottom.

74' Grabber right here. All stock V8 car. mulling over the small bumper conversion.

@@garyr7027 Ugly? Nah, they look good, especially from the rear. Quite european styling

74 250i6 here I'm gonna restomod

This is one of three cars that are responsible for the Mustang still being on the road. During the Oil Crisis in the Seventies, Ford used the Pinto as a Base platform to also make the Maverick and the Mustang two. They all served the purpose of trying to be all cars possible for the brand at the time. The Pinto was used for a cheap version of the Mustang that would have otherwise been discontinued in the last Generation of the car before this had to happen. The Maverick was used as a bigger version and as an utilitarian version of what the Pinto was used for as the Maverick was also offered in a Four-door and a Wagon form like the Pinto. And the Mustang two was positioned to be the Luxury version of the line up.

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My grandpa has one he keeping it for me not even selling it I’m 13 when I’m 15-16 I’m gonna start re building it I can’t wait I check on it every day

Check put vice grip garage

@@TanCalHanI was a body, frame, uni-structure, suspension and paint tech my whole career, I have built a lot of nice cars out of cars I have found sitting like this one was and I still buy cars that are sitting and get them going and that is my favorite part of building a car is getting it to run and drive on the road safely after sitting for years!

Was just talking to my dad about this. We couldn't stand watching them throw brand new 1000 dollar parts on the cars instead of restoring the original

@@Taydrum that depends on what you want, 6cyl.&hubcaps are awful boring 😴

@@Taydrum can't we all just love anything with an engine/motor, some type of motivation to get the power to the ground, and can be modified to go twice as fast as it was ever intended to go...made by whoever...Big3 or jdm...they're all cool in their own right...hell, farm and construction equipment is pretty f'n cool too...I watch RU-vid daily and watch everything from politics to all kinds of automotive channels like it'sjustas6, durtymaxjack, dmaxryno, digs, VGG...anyway, I love peeps who don't use the channels to vent their spleen...even still, we all do it, but we're a very forgiving family...I have been adding to my channel catalog lately and, being disabled, it's cool for me to be able to watch all of the shit that I used to do...see y'all in the salt mines 🤪

Lost my grandpa last year miss him every day

My first new car when I joined the Air Force was a two door 74 Maverick with a 302 V8 and three on the tree. It was green with a white vinyl top.

Pre model year mavericks didn't even have a glovebox

I had a 70' grabber, 170/3spd floor shift, no glove box, power nothing! Looked brand new in 77' orange with black graphics.. 50k miles.. paid $750 dollars for it...

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Some Mavericks came with 250 CID six cylinder engines.

I have a 1972 with a 302 in it not sure what I'm going to do with it

The Maverick V8 con la transmission manual. Mejor que el mustang

And a very expensive and valued car too.

@@PatricioGarcia1973 toda la potencia al alcance

@@PatricioGarcia1973 If it was a v-8 car,put a t5 in it and play.If not,replace every front end part,then put a t5 in it.6 cylinder front end,meet tree.

Wow! I should have known I would run into you here! You're on your second Maverick this year aren't you? The second one is a nice one! But your daughter will take that one from you unless she likes the Fairmont better but I don't see that happening!

Dont you love it when a plan comes together? Wahooo!

I had a ‘75 Grabber, back in the late ‘70s. Fun car.

They're great because they were mechanically made from the ford parts bin and there's 4 door versions that are identical in the front which is great for all of the unreproduced interior parts and body parts. The rear of the 4 doors is not identical but is good for patch panels on the 2 doors. Like you said these are really cheap underrated cars that are easy to build.

And don’t forget Mercury’s version of the Maverick, the Comet.

@@SlyDellian my Grabber is a 75 as well.

@@tomikawalker7510 Cool! What color? Mine was orange with black stripes.

Heck I’d buy A 70 maverick if I could buy a new one for 2100$ 😅

@@Beandiptheredneck Adjusted for inflation that's about $14,000 USD today. Not bad at *all*

I remember the local Ford dealer offering Pintos or Mavericks for $1995 in 71. They had a ton of them, most were out back in a vacant lot.

Hey nice car great lets get it moving good job ?

@Sigkim hell ya, Derek is hilarious

My first car as well. Dark forest green 1972 Ford Maverick 302 V8 C4 auto transmission 2 bbl. Fast and Rusty and very Trusty Michigan car in 1980. Great memories. Mine also had rare factory rear window defroster. That car would start in the coldest winter mornings. Amazing little car.

Surely it’s got to be James Garner 🙂

Well it left us stranded.

LOL... Low Productivity is till better than the slowest counting voting machines ever.. Lets watch get distracted from the Election. and while child is ON my child is in a Zoom Class for school, learn and watch at the same time...

Me at school

LOL

It's alright man. You did your best at it

It's called pacing yourself. If you get too much done, someone might think you're management material! God forbid!!!

I would run like i am someone who is being chased by a serial killer.

He like everybody else should be impressed it was started without a single carburetor catching on fire. 😉

"Be Like"?...c'mon man!

Where's Thunderhead 429 when you need'm?

@AllenCajah Playz 🤣🤣

No thats luke how has the maverick

Digs had a video about reviving a Bronco...and it shot mouse carcasses out the exhaust!

Those are the only efi trucks I like I’ve had three of them and loved all of them equally you can still actually work on them yourself haha

Same here Robert. I have 2 95's. One a Reg Cab Long Bed 4x4 300 5spd and my "baby" Eddie Bauer Extended Cab 4x4 351 with only 80k original miles. Fav ford truck body style other than the 70's round headlights. The Eddie is in very great shape other than needing an oil pan. Gotta pull the upper intake to do it. Not looking forward to it.

@@JRHINE83 Had a 92 Bronco. Swapped the 302 with an Jasper 351. Swapped the trans for a manual 5 speed. The 302 had 320k miles on it before it finally started losing oil pressure. I had drove that girl hard and it needed a rebuild. But wound up getting a good deal on the 351 and trans. Eventually had to sell her.... Man do I regret it. One day I'll get me another OBS...

In the USA/Canada Mavericks came with a variety of the small block inline six and 302 small block V8. The base model in Brazil had a four cylinder motor at least for the first couple years, then I think it got the six. My memory of the line up for Brazil isn't that great. Of course the GT and other higher end sub models got V8s. Brazil's Maverick also had a tach and 4spd available which was not offered in the USA to prevent competition with the Mustang.

WRONG! Mavericks had a limited version with a v8 sold here, but yes it is very sought after. The most popular models sold here (around 108k sold total from 1973-79) were 4 and 6 cylinders inline with underwhelming 79hp and 86hp respectively.

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@@ssenssel Correct here is much easier to find 6 or 4 cylinders than v8 so people in Brazil usually change the engine

In 1971 onward you could get the V8. Only the first year 1970 was it unavailable. Ive owned several.

Dont own Ford's if ya can't fix'em yourself

Brazil?

I wouldn't say cool, a lot cheaper than most classic cars to buy though. It's attainable for younger people to purchase, unlike your chargers and Chevelles of the world. Also has the unusual factor, hardly anybody saved these things, so it's like seeing a Pacer or Vega.

must have edited out the screams when they swarmed after him........

@@davelewandoski4292 D'oh! LOL

Likewise with "... hopefully this one will run, as that one's full of spiders..." 😅

Spiders. Man they're evil. What kind of spiders were they?

My first new car after joining the Air Force was a 74 Maverick. Green with white vinyl top. 302 and manual.

The 240 and the 300 share the same block design; only the bore and cylinder wall size varies. The 300 eats oil pumps; the 240 never does. Nobody has ever figured out why, all the oliing system is identical- exactly the same. With a stock 240 or 300 the carb is a rev limiter- too small to let things get out of hand, both will run till there's not enough compression to run. The cam gear is phenolic plastic and strips teeth at high mileage. It's pressed on and you have to pull the whole cam out to change it. In my 71 van with it's built-into-the-bodywork grille I cut one of the grille fins at one side and bent it back to get the cam out. Hammered the new gear on carefully since I didn't have a press. There were several performance parts made for these- even a 4bbl intake. The 292 was a heavy-duty truck variant of this engine. But these engines never saw a Maverick- they mostly went in trucks and vans and a few larger cars. Mavericks came with a 170 or a 200 (same thing, identical except for bore size)or the 250, which was unrelated to any other Ford 6. The 170 began life as a 140 in the Falcon, was bumped up in size for the Fairlanes and Mustangs then grew to a 200 a few years later later. The 140 and 170 were wimps, the 200 was OK. The 250 had decent power and even some performance parts made for it but nothing fancy. The 140/170/200 had the intake cast with the head- one piece so it never got any performance parts. Looking for intake bolts is the fastest way to tell a 250 from a 170/200 in a Maverick. I bought a 170ci 1970 Maverick in Texas for $200. The owner thought the block was cracked but I saw it was just a freeze plug pushed out. I stuck an expanding rubber plug in and a head gasket too just in case. No torque wrench, I just guessed. No problem. Drove the crap out of it for 4 years patching what broke as cheaply as possible. The rear shock mounts tore out of the body- a common problem with the Maverick- so the back end bounced all over on bumpy roads. Finally the compression got so weak it would barely hit 50MPH on level ground and the transmission was beginning to slip. Sold it for $100. It was my cheapest-to-own-and-drive ride ever. It was also a piece of crap- sorry if the truth hurts any feelings. Everything other than the engine and transmissiopn broke, rusted out, or fell apart on that car. Ford had spent it's bucks on body styling and stopped there, everything else was thrown together as cheaply as possible to keep the price down so it could compete with the Japanese cars which were gaining a foothold on the American market. The only reason it lasted in the market as long as it did was because Ford didn't have any fresh ideas to replace it with nor the development money that would take. The world moved on and left Detroit- and the Maverick- in it's dust. It would be 25 more years before Detroit stopped the fall and began to make some really good cars again.

@@P_RO_ I had an '81 Fairmont with the Straight six. One of the 3 best cars I have ever owned. Id probably still own it if I hadn't got rear-ended.

@@neilhale4529 I had one with the 2.3 four and 4-speed. There were four different 4-speeds in that 4-cyl model and of course mine was the junk "Dagenham" from England. Shift arms popped off so much that I kept the tools to fix it under the seal. It was nick-named "The Slowmobile" but to it's credit at wouldn't die and it got great gas mileage even if a mailed letter would arrive before you did...

I had a friend who rolled one street racing another friend. RIP Jesse, you were a good one.

David ... you do realize that when this car was new gas was around 30 cents per gallon so $5 was a full tank.

@@rupe53 now you'd be lucky to get a jerry can full

Why don't you blow up tires then!

170 ci what my 1970 had My Maverick was older than that one it was a 1970 but my did not have the key on the column it had a key on the dash.

Mine would run 80 miles an hour downhill