I was looking at the '73 red and white Grabber with a/c on ebay, and I noticed that its date of manufacture is 2/73. I just bought a '73 Maverick with a/c (non Grabber), and its date of manufacture is also 2/73. My car has the package tray with round vents on each side under the dash, and the Grabber has a glove compartment, with the rectangle shape vents. Why is that? Was it standard on Grabbers, or was it an option to be checked on the options list? Thanks for any replies from those more learned than I.
mid year of '73 Ford switched from the package tray to the more traditional glove box my '73 4dr has a package tray, and my '73 Grabber has a glove box...... but my 4dr was built just a couple month before my Grabber
Without a Marti report you dont really know when the car was built. The door tag can sometimes be weeks off ive even seen one that was a month off.
what he said. and even if the door tags are accurate, both cars could have been built 2 days apart and within that two days could have been the change over. trust me, the glove box was just a change over thing and doesnt have anything to do with any particular model of maverick in '73
It might have been built at a different plant than yours too ... I would thing that they would run themselves out of stock of old stuff first before using the newer parts. A glovebox lower dash also requires the squarer later upper dash to attach to. It will not mesh with the earlier round-corner upper.
Thanks to all who replied to my inquery. I was curious, I thought that the glove compartment dash came out in '74.
and here's some more info on decoding the codes from for data door tag: http://home.comcast.net/~petebre/maverick/decode/1973.html
That settles it then, my '73 was built in Dearborn, and the ebay '73 Grabber was built in Kansas City. Thanks guys, now maybe I can get some sleep tonight.
