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Car of The Day: April 12, 2010; Hot Wheels '71 Ford Maverick Grabber
Topic Started: Apr 11 2010, 09:58 PM (535 Views)
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The car for today is Hot Wheels' 1971 Ford Maverick Grabber.

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The Ford Maverick was a compact car manufactured from April 1969-1977 in the United States, Canada, Mexico and from 1973 to 1979 in Brazil — employing a rear wheel drive platform dating to the original 1960 Falcon. Originally marketed as a 2-door sedan at an initial price of USD$1,995,[1] the Maverick was designed to be inexpensive to manufacture and maintain.


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The Maverick's styling featured a long hood, fastback roof, and short deck on a 103-inch wheelbase — and featured simple and inexpensive to manufacture pop-out rear side windows rather than roll-down windows.
Internal and external resistance to a "Mustang replacement" meant that the Maverick would actually be replacing the Ford Falcon. The Falcon's sales had already been decimated by the introduction of the Mustang in 1964, and despite a redesign in 1966, the Falcon was left without a place in the Ford lineup. The Falcon was discontinued early in the 1970 model year after a few thousand units were produced as basically warmed over 1969 models, but the Falcon name was used on stripped down versions of the mid-sized Ford Torino during the second half of the 1970 model run.

Nearly 579,000 Mavericks were produced in its first year.[2] This rivaled the record-setting first year of Mustang sales (nearly 619,000[3]), and easily outpaced the Mustang's sales of less than 200,000 in 1970.

The muscle car-themed Grabber trim package was introduced in mid-1970. The package included special graphics and trim, including a spoiler. It was offered from 1970-1975. In 1971 and 1972, the Grabber came with a special "Dual Dome" hood. A similar package for the Mercury Comet, the Comet GT, was also offered from 1971-1975 and had "muscle car" trim akin to the Maverick Grabber, plus its own distinctive hood scoop.



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This is from the HWs 2010 New Models series and is a new casting. Nice to see them use the same size wheel front and back on this Mav.

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James
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I am happy with it. It was a car worthy of memorializing in diecast.

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Sak
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Ezekiel 25:17
They certainly captured it!

It was a car for young working people, built to a very low price. Some of the early stripper editions didn't even have a glove box!!! The Maverick was a brisk seller, especially in six-cylinder form, after the 1973 gas crisis.

The Falcon, happy to say, never died- they continued building it in Australia, where now it's in its seventh or eighth generation, and is an enviable vehicle.

Mavericks have been available from Tiger Wheels, Motor Max, and Johnny Lightning. There was also the Hot Wheels redline, and Topper Johnny Lightning versions of an earlier day.
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HW did a really good job on this one...a lot of detail for a mainline. :thumbup: In my area, this is as hard to find as a hunt.
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
This is definitely a challenging one to find- I grabbed one but never did find another for the junkyard! The details are a bit lacking (headlights, taillights) but that's the only complaint about this car. I suspect we'll see a higher detailed version at a higher pricepoint in the not-too-distant future.
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Apr 12 2010, 04:37 PM
The details are a bit lacking (headlights, taillights) but that's the only complaint about this car. I suspect we'll see a higher detailed version at a higher pricepoint in the not-too-distant future.
Suspect this might be done intentionally by HWs in some respects. I'd think this would make the Mav casting a future favorite of customizers. You mentioned earlier Swifty that HWs does pay attention to those that chop and repaint HWs, perhaps this is one of those instances.
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ivantt
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New casting? Quick! Take it apart!
Amazing Swifty, they are all over the stores here, including the short cards at all the Walmart checkouts I go to.
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Swifty
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
ivantt
Apr 12 2010, 05:36 PM
Amazing Swifty, they are all over the stores here, including the short cards at all the Walmart checkouts I go to.
Not really surprising- at the end of last year/beginning of this year my Walmart (the only place I ever really check as it's the only place open on my schedule and local) got a flood of old cases (like early/mid '09- I found the GMC Motor Home and '55 Chevy Treasure Hunts....in November, if that gives you an idea of the selection). And we kept getting the same cases in. It was horrible! The pegs have only just now started to sprout new cars. The same thing happened to Matchbox- they kept sending an endless stream of the same few batches over and over again, to the point where we were three or four batches behind at one point. We finally caught up in the last month. So just a run of old cases clogging the pegs as collectors already had the cars and so did a lot of the kids, too. Easter helped clear a lot of that out, thankfully!
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Tone
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I remember seeing a photo of a Falcon Ghia from Argentina made in the 1990s that somebody posted. It used the original 1959 era Falcon body style.
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Swifty
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Tone
Apr 12 2010, 09:24 PM
I remember seeing a photo of a Falcon Ghia from Argentina made in the 1990s that somebody posted. It used the original 1959 era Falcon body style.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ford_Falcon_Gh%C3%ADa.jpg

Looks like a Tempo (or a MK II European Granada) front end on a '60 Falcon!
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STUTZ
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Nice HW casting for a buck!
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