Sprint Production Numbers

I got to agree with you Mavaholic. I would deffinitly try to talk them down,but even if you have to give $1900 you are not going to lose your money. 2-3 or even 5 years down the road you decide to sell as is with nothing done to it you will get your money back and more.

 

Curious - did Sprints have a special VIN number to distinguish them from other Mavericks? Obviously the Grabber did (except the 1970 model). Both Sprints and 1970 Grabbers are pretty easy to make a clone without anyone ever knowing ....

 

Lets ignore that it is a Sprint. Look at it this way. It is a small bumpered Mavericks (a plus), it already has a V-8 (another plus), it is in California and mostly rust free (a big plus). Here in the rust belt, those all count for a lot...whether it is a Sprint or not.

Now, if it happened to be a Grabber, you could add a "plus" for a Grabber Hood, rear spolier, sport mirrors, etc.

When I bought my current car, it had these pluses: Grabber Hood, Rear Spolier, Sport Mirrors, Factory Floor shift, Factory AC, Factory tinted glass, Factory bucket seats, black interior, rust free Arkansas car, and a V-8. It was also a factory Grabber, factory V-8 car....but that didn't really matter to me a whole lot.

The minus: Engine smoked something fierce, only had reverse (no forward gears at all), had been sitting for years, interior was trashed and the entire car needed a TOTAL restoration.

The pluses far out weighed the minuses, especially considering what I wanted to do with a Maverick....this car was a perfect canidate.

I suggest that for now you ignore that it is a Sprint and access it's value from the standpoint of a normal Maverick. Once you access it's value...the Sprint option can be considered a "bonus" to the package.

Just food for thought.

 

I think you could get a car in lesser shape and make it better than the Sprint is for $1900. But of course there are plusses to finding a car that doesn't need a lot of work. It saves you a lot of time and stress.

I don't appreciate rarity a lot either. I mean my car is a 1970 maverick with stripes. I don't really care if an original 1970 grabber or not (of course I might still bring it up to brag ). I think 'rare' option packages are overrated. However, I like the look of the Sprints, and considering that there will always be people who will value rarity, the car will always have a bit higher resale.

 

Another point...rarity does not necessarily convert over to value. Case in point....the rarest Grabber ever made was the 1975. Only about 8000 ever made. Compare that to a 1971 or 1972 Grabber with about 32,000 units each year. Now does that mean the 1975 is worth more than the others. In my opinion....no.

 

Well, thanks for all your opinions guys, but the dude sold the Sprint the other day to someone else. I wish he would have told me. It would have been a pretty cool car, but someone else has it now. Hopefully they take care of it.
-Corbin