Hemmings Find of the Day – 1973 Ford Maverick

If I had to take a wild guess, I’d say that the seller of this 1973 Ford Maverick would have enjoyed the Eliminator-era ZZ Top music videos I linked to last week. The colors, the cacti, the street rod interior (minus the cowgirl floating across the ceiling, unfortunately), the dual quads sticking out the hood, […]

Fiberglass fun in SoCal

Our friend Geoff Hacker has been living it up in the Los Angeles area the last few days, in part to help celebrate Fiberglass Day at the Petersen Automotive Museum, an event that Geoff helped plan to showcase what creative gearheads were doing with fiberglass in the 1950s and 1960s. Though Fiberglass Day has passed, […]

Maverifico!

Last month’s Hemmings Cruise to the Mexican Riviera yielded some spectacular pleasures for the eyes. This wasn’t one of them.  As to a mass-casualty incident, our eyes were drawn to this four-door Ford Maverick at curbside outside a seafood restaurant in Mazatlan. The bent-up Jalisco license plates on both ends are current, so presumably, it […]