I’m just a sucker for a fast black Ford. Can’t explain it any other way than that. It all started with a spray-bombed 1973 Mercury Comet GT and ever since then, I equate a flat-black Ford with the kind of fun that makes show-car guys cringe and restoration guys sick to their stomach. While that Comet did just about everything possible (gravel road rallies, dirt field drifting, and bootlegger turn practice on a road with deep ditches on either side), this 1972 Ford Maverick would have to stay on the street.
And that’s just fine, because we know plenty of roads that we could burn the 18.5″ Hoosier rears off on. The Maverick sports a built up 1970 302 punched .030 over with 351 Windsor heads, and the 3500-to-3800 stall auto trans together with the 4.33 and spool-equipped rear end beg for an open section of tarmac and no cops nearby. Go ahead, plant your foot. Let every worry in the world go blasting out of the pipes as you tear forward into something much, much better.
eBay Link: 1972 Ford Maverick Grabber
Normally I’d be waxing lyrical over this absolute beauty, but like every Newcastle United fan the world over all thoughts are on our match with the Great Enemy Sunderland tomorrow and Raffa Benitez shall lead us to victory!
TOON TOON RAFFA’S BLACK AND WHITE ARMY!
That’s about soccer for the uninitiated by the way guys…
Ah…soccer. That’s that quaint running up and down a football field activity that children play in the US .
All ball sports are Childrens games men Play.
i though the pro street look was dead ?
I thought about derbydads question for thirty minutes and rather than writing a book I’ll just respond……No.
See Ya at the Track,
Flash