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Rainy Day Auto said
Ford was my close second choice.

When I bought my very first Duster years ago, I had the option to leave the duster behind and buy a 1971 Ford maverick instead.

The maverick was a "grabber" with the cool hood, but it had a straight 6.

The maverick was in a little bit better shape than the duster, but the duster was a slant six but included a 360 in the deal for around the same price as the maverick.

That was such a hard decision. I thought about it over a weekend and at one point I was sure I was buying the maverick then an hour later I was sure about the duster and back and forth.

I went with the duster because I was a lot more familiar with the mopar because my dad has a 69 cuda that I grew up seeing.

If I had gone with the maverick I would probably be all ford now. Ford is not bad, I tend to be attracted to more ford products than i ever was with GM. To me, there is just something backwards about GM, and I never felt comfortable with any GM product.

I totally dig seeing Mavericks at car shows.

Like the Mavericks lots too.

When I first started driving 16 years old, dad got us as 67 vw bug was kind of lame in MN, scrape windows inside and out, poor heater and defrost. Traded up the bug right away for a 69 vw fast back, good improvement . . had that for 6 months then traded that for a 1970 Maverick 2 Door with the indestructible 200 cu in 6 in it with an automatic. Such a huge huge improvement over those VWs all the way around, felt like driving a Cadillac in comparison.

At same time got my '64 Chev 2 door Impala set up (while parents still owned the Maverick) with a 350 4spd, black interior and put in black buckets and painted it red with aluminum slots, that was a way cool project and car to run with as it was my first car. So much fun with that one.

Cool looking body style on those Mavericks, as young drivers me and my older brother ran that car pretty hard and it never let us down once.

Really Liked the that '70 Maverick . . .

Looked just like this pic below.

Nice thin bumpers . . no big energy absorbing picnic table bumpers in 1970.