Marti reports are so cool ................. Thanks for posting. BTW, what came with the "Appearance Protection Group" ?
Appearance Protection Group, Includes floor mats, spare tire lock, and door edge guards. Pretty cool!! Holy crap, that's a real early car, 275th built. My green Grabber was built 16 days later, and it was the 6473 rd car built. Plus, White with Orange, very nice!! If you register your car on the database, you'll have the lowest serial numbered 73 Grabber, built at Kansas.
Yeah, it's too bad they didn't list in on the Marti Report, as to how many cars had the Orange top, since Orange was Grabber, and Comet GT only.
I too saw the early build date and then was surprised that the sell date was much later at the end of April. I also wonder if there was some delay at Kansas tooling up. Look at the difference in scheduled build and actual build - 23 days late.
No it was the 275th 1973 assigned a VIN at KC, vehicles never come down the assembly line in sequence... Assuming they were building the 23 days that it was late in being produced, the actual build would have been much higher... The delay could have because of some component that was unavailable at start up, or maybe KC was late in starting as suggested, would be interesting to see the report on other early cars... If it was built at the begnning of production, then likely it's a 1st day car...
I realize all that, but we usually just talk in terms of vin number, not when it actually came off the line. We've had that all figured out for years now. My car was the 6473rd scheduled for production at Kansas. Serialized 08/08/72, Bucked 09/27/72, Scheduled for build 09/06/72, Actually built 09/29/72, Released 09/30/72, and sold 10/21/72 in La Habra Ca.
See Dave, that too is very interesting. Your car was also 23 days late, but it was only 2 days from being bucked to built. His car was 36 days from being bucked to being built ..... ...... that is the longest I've ever seen. That body sat around forever in terms of production and taking up space at the plant. Which makes me wonder if there was some really big delay for the '73 Mavericks - tooling or vendor supply or QC problem ........ I find it really interesting.
Wow. Over 50% of Grabbers were 302/Auto combo's. More than the regular 2dr average. I didn't figure it would be that high.
I think that is a typo. I think the bottom line should have said "for all 1973 Mavericks" or at least "for all 2-door 1973 Mavericks". I doubt 9427 1973 Grabbers were white.
