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With the American economy mired in stagflation and misery in the middle 1970s, GM created the super-cheap Chevette Scooter. Here's one in a Denver wrecking yard.
Junkyard Find: 1977 Ford Maverick Sedan You just don’t see Ford Mavericks and their Mercury Comet brethren on the street these days; they haven’t picked up a huge amount of collector interest and their place at the bottom of the just-above-scrap-value beater-car food chain has been replaced by the early Ford Taurus. For some reason, though, a steady trickle of Mavericks and Comets shows up in California wrecking yards. My guess, based on the 1980s and 1990s detritus I find in some of them, is that they spent a decade or three forgotten in a back yard or driveway before being sold to U-Wre...