Ford decided they needed another special edition of the 1970 Mustang (ala Mach 1, Boss 302, etc) in order to maximize sales and thus debuted the “Grabber”. This survivor is being sold here on eBay where the buy it now price is a hefty $35,000. The orange Mustang is located in Walla Walla, Washington.
There’s no mention of the matching color shelves and floor jack in the sale as well, but you could always ask! The Grabber Special Value Edition cars were all Sportsroofs with the ‘C’ side stripes (similar to the 1969 Boss 302 but with no lettering), the 302 2-barrel V-8, body-color side mirrors and a blacked out taillight panel. According to this posting, Kevin Marti has stated that 5,120 Grabbers were sold in 1970.
I’m wondering if this is the original spare tire — it certainly looks the part. The trunk area is exceptionally clean. Not only that, the seller tells us that the Grabber Orange paint is original!
A far cry from the usual rust we see under these Mustangs. It’s nice to see that the new owner won’t have to worry about it!
I’m surprised the interior wasn’t cleaned better for this shot, and that might be a small tear in the passenger seat. Do any readers have a method to shrink the original vinyl back on that driver’s seat? Of course, reproduction parts are available if you can’t stand the flaws.
A little detailing would go a long way here! It could be fun, too. I guess the elephant in the room here is the asking price. Do you think $35,000 is too much for a non-Mach 1, non-Boss Mustang? I look forward to the discussion in the comments!
Interesting. I remember the Maverick “Grabber” but didn’t know there had been a Mustang. I learned my new thing for the day. Though in this case it’s an old thing. 😆
One again I will educate everyone about Grabber! The grabber color was exclusive to the Mustang! There is no Grabber edition Mustang! This is grabber orange! There was Grabber Green, Grabbed Blue, Grabber Yellow, and I think there was there was a red too! Jamie, you should make things a little more clear!
Actually, if you follow the link in the article, there was a Grabber Value Edition; I’m not going to argue with Kevin Marti on that point ;-) Agreed that was the name for the colors, but there was a special edition with the stripes as well.
Wrong Way why don’t you quit spewing incorrect information!
If you will go back to your comments on the Grabber Blue Pinto from last month I clearly showed the Marti Report from my uncle’s 1971 Maverick Grabber showing that the original color was Grabber Blue! I will post that picture in a few minutes.
Maybe you should just drop the ‘Way’ from your screen name then it would be more appropriate.
As promised above. This clearly shows that Ford built 5,183 Maverick 2 doors in 1971 that were painted Grabber Blue.
Wrong way is an appropriate name. There are Grabber mustangs. The sales invoice will state “grabber special value pack” it was an appearance option that included, like the article stated sport mirrors, one of the grabber colors, blacked out taillight panels and the wheel and tire combo you see. I have one myself only 818 grabber orange grabbers where produced to date only 15 have been accounted for according to the Grabber registry you can visit the website for more info. Please don’t post if you don’t know what you are talking about.
If you don’t know what you are talking about, best not to talk. I happen to own a 1970 Grabber edition Mustang in the Calypso Coral color, that was featured in Mustang Monthly in Oct 2009. Perhaps you should look it up to educate yourself about this rare model. And by the way, regarding price, I’d never sell mine for 35k. Mine is an all original survivor and they are rare as hens teeth.
Re: the seat vinyl, I think you could remove the hog rings on the lower seat, stretch the vinyl a bit more and replace. Add a little padding if needed.
Yes, more foam and restretch it. It looks like it may have already had a new cover put on – just poorly installed.
Ok maybe a shaker-hood and some magnum 500s? or maybe not! Always seen these as the Torino-double,and just as nice!
The spare tire looks like a Goodyear Polyglas bias ply to me. F78-14, maybe ?
Grabber? Hardly even know her! Anyoo- clean as a whistle but a plain jane 70 fastback/ The price of 35 large seems excessive unless you want to py that much for a non rust fastback. Full inspection with a magnet needed!! Good luck hunting!!
Cheers
GPCj
My absolute all time favorite hubcap and wheel trim ring combo…style is still contemporary 49 years later. Wouldn’t change these for anything.
Maybe it’s pricey but it’s also really nice.
I agree with you on this wheel combo. Equaled or bested only by the special disc wheelcover/center cap on a ‘71 Plymouth Sport Fury GT.
Can you maybe at least vacuum it out considering how much you want for it??? Jeeezzzzze
Yep, the white stripes on the modern radials here are improperly thicker than the one on the original spare. & have been improperly moved closer to the inner edge!! No excuse for either – especially considering the outrageous COST of many new tires. & many are now made overseas!
Over the years, the tire companies don’t think i haven’t noticed that they have also actually REDUCED THE WIDTH!! & the # of tread grooves from 6 to 4!! of their, for example, 235-60-15 radial tires! I have 2 in the garage – 1 from the early 80’s & 1 from the 90s – to compare to my new ones – same brand – same size – to prove it. Also the SIZE of OUTLINE raised white LETTERS have actually decreased in size – twice over the last several decades!
Oh! The humanity…tire companies arbitrarily deciding on width and placement of white walls and lettering?! There ought to be a law :-)
Kidding aside, we are lucky some whitewall tires and RWL tires are still made for our vintage rides now that most cars have >16″ rims with only blackwall tires. Thank you BF Goodrich and Firestone. I’m running 10+ year old rubber on my classics but I realize I’m on borrowed time. Some day soon my only choice may be Coker reproductions.
discounttiredirect.com has tires of all sizes, prices, and whitewalls on some of them, you just need to ascertain if the tire you want has whitewalls. No need to pay Coker prices unless you want to. No sales tax and free shipping. In buy all my tires from them.
Cheers
GPC
Beefy price on this bad boy. Lots to do, and there’s a lot of attractive Mustangs out there if you are not stuck on a Grabber Orange version.
Grabber Mustangs were made to confuse buyers who couldn’t tell the difference between Mustangs with stripes that indicated special performance models and stripes that indicated, well, stripes.
That Marti Report is great. Too bad there isn’t a similar one for GM cars.
You’ll pay sales tax if you live where discounttireinc is located, Michigan. Otherwise no sales tax and free shipping. Used them for multiple vintage rides.
Hm. I actually think I’d rather have the Grabber Blue Maverick mentioned here by z28th 1S. Wonder if they had the same HP 302/2v ? Neither would hold a candle to the BOSS 351 I ordered and bought new , but few other Fords did. Just recently threw away the window sticker that came with it. Would have been interesting to see “how many of how many” it was per Mr. Marti….
I drove a 1971 (1972) Comet GT a while ago and it had the 302/2V. It also had drum brakes all around. I was going down a long downhill and the owner says to me, “You’re going to feel the brakes start to pulse. It’s just the drums getting hot and out of round. Don’t worry about it.”
So would the Camaro “Hugger.”
My first car was a used grabber blue Grabber Mustang with lots of goodies: Direct reflective C stripe that turned Extremely bright gold & silver depending on how the light hits it, hood scoop, 3 hood stripes & push down hood locks, Vinyl roof, front disc brakes, AC, auto, AM FM radio. 351 Cleveland 4bbl… loved that car! wish i could find pics of it ugh.
Tim – sounded like a great car. Sometimes pictures just “disappear” or get lost or destroyed. All have happened to me, many of them were my various cars, including the lovely silver with black stripe package BOSS 351 I ordered new in mid-’71. Fortunately, after searching a lot on the internet I found one that looked exactly the same externally, so I did a screen grab of that car. As close as I’m ever going to get. Perhaps you could do a similar search. If so, I wish you the best of luck !
Yes, there was the Grabber value addition. (Edition)
My son has one of the Grabber Orange in my garage and has the Marti report for it. The only thing is that it was turned into a race car called “Horse Cents” and was painted Grabber Blue (it also was painted Grabber green in between orange and blue) . It still has it’s racing paint ( no stickers) . It also has a 69 302 going into it since the original 302 is long gone. It was raced with a 351 under the hood.