https://waterloo.craigslist.org/cto/d/1971-ford-maverick/6727622043.html
I'm not sure if it's really cool that their 16 year old was driving a straight-6 '71 Maverick to school, or really bad. No way it doesn't have 4-wheel drum brakes.
Still, could be a good 2019 contender. Blah blah 5.0 swap, and later (77?) Mavericks can net you disk brakes and are a bolt-on swap from what I have heard.
No 5.0 swap. No. What that banana needs is an hot modern 4 banger. Maybe a Zetec SVT or better yet something from the Duratec/MZR family. Get too crazy and you need a FoMoCo control pack for the Ecoboost...
^^^ Fox body SVO 4-popper turbo/ 5-speed swap. Upgrade the suspension with all the Mustang goodies and brakes you can find.
Oh. My. Berkeleying. God. Those were such pieces of E36 M3. My dad (I know, I'm convicting myself of something here) bought one new as his daily in '70. It was the car I learned to drive in right before I got my first Morris Minor. Even with the entire "I'm driving a car on my own" vibe we all got when we first got the license, I knew this thing sucked. And it was fairly new with the fairly new drivetrain and suspension stuff.
I learned later the reason it was a POS was that the chassis was based on an early '60's Falcon. Yeah, so was the Mustang but at least the 'Stang had a fairly rigid chassis. The Mav' (that's what we called it) did not so you're gonna hafta do something about that if you want it to get through the Auto-X course without taking out half of the cones.
Good Luck. You're gonna need it...
wow, that was MEAN. lol, I have v8 /air and Vinyl top car. no not for sale for challenge.
In reply to rdcyclist :
I think you are missing sight of the possibilities:
In reply to TheRX7Project :
Or for wierd times, turbo the stock 200ci.
SPA Turbo in Brazil makes the manifold .!
In reply to John Welsh :
Yeah, I know. I've seen a number of really nice Mav's out there that have seen considerable expertise and expense leveled at them. Trouble is, every time I see one, The Mav always comes to mind. I don't know how many people here remember reading Henry Gregor Felsen's books for boys about hot rods; there was a character in there that talked about a car he called "Stupid Six". That was The Mav.
In reply to GIRTHQUAKE :
I recently stumbled across an ad for an older Falcon that had a 200ci Inline 6, with some sort of home brew draw-through turbo, fed by a Weber DCOE. I was thoroughly intrigued.
rdcyclist said:I learned later the reason it was a POS was that the chassis was based on an early '60's Falcon. Yeah, so was the Mustang but at least the 'Stang had a fairly rigid chassis.
They really didn't. They were complete noodles, and after 50-odd years, if you find one that doesn't have a bunch of negative camber because the chassis is all warped, what you have is a completely rebuilt chassis, or a Mustang II front end swap.
Which is great way to open up the engine bay, incidentally. You actually get room for headers!
My sister had a Comet, maybe '76. The big bumper ones. I was allowed to drive it quite a bit in high school. We called it the Doots. 2 door, 200 6cyl, auto, kind of light brown/gold with the same color interior.
I was offered the car for free, and replied that I'd rather walk. Some of this was because I was staring lovingly at my brother's 67 Mustang, thinking girls actually gave a damn about what kind of car you drove. I was a Hootus, I admit.
Funny thing is, now, I love them. Great little fastback body, basically a Mustang underneath, cheaper than most CAM type cars.
Make mine a skinny bumper Comet, please.
Then again, I used to hate Pintos, but would love a skinny bumper one now.
Silly me.
I know, I also want a Stabber
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