06-06-2011, 11:26 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Ft. Thomas, KY
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Originally Posted by Doug Sams
This car, and the Plymouth Duster, were Jeckyl-and-Hyde cars. They could be quite ugly - especially in factory trim - or quite fierce looking with the right rims and tires. Similarly, the drive train options varied from wimpy straight sixes up thru some potent V-8's.
For me, with the Fords, Henry's ghost was still pinching pennies - they put four-bolt wheels on some of those Mavericks. How cheap can you get?
I recall at least one quite potent Maverick in my home town. The guy had it tricked out quite nicely. BTW, Mr. Squirrel-Works, Don Magness, has a Maverick in his eclectic fleet
Doug
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Kathy was having brake problems with hers and asked me to give it a test drive for her. She didn't tell me the extent to which she was having brake problems, which was almost no brakes at all. She and some friends were working at Wendy's at the time, so I took it for a turn around the lot. At the time there was only one entrance/exit to the parking lot and you had to circle the store to get out. I was on turn 3 and hit the brakes, and the pedal went to the floor. I managed to get it around the turn and E-braked it to a stop in the lot, but I **** near went straight through the landscaping and down the six foot drop to Carother's Road. IIRC, her master cylinder was shot.
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