1974 · Ford · United States
1974 Ford Maverick Grabber
Grabber production fell to 23,502 by Classic Industries count.
United States · researched through 2026-09-23
Grabber production fell to 23,502 units by Classic Industries' own count for the 1974 model year, against 139,818 plain two-door sedans and 137,728 four-door sedans built that same model year; the source does not clearly state whether those three separate figures together partition every single Maverick built that year.1
Factory prices for the Grabber two-door ran $2,923 for the six and $3,081 for the V8. The plain two-door sedan listed at $2,742 (six) and $2,949 (V8), and the four-door sedan at $2,824 (six) and $2,982 (V8). No engine ratings for the standard six or optional V8 were found for 1974, and both the engines and transmissions sections of this record remain empty as a result, leaving the Grabber's own standard-content listing of the 200 six as the only engine reference carried anywhere in this year's file.2,3
Standard Grabber content ran to the 200 six, D70x14 Wide Oval raised-white-letter tires, hub caps and trim rings, paint-and-tape treatment across the body side, back panel, and valance, hood tape with a Grabber decal, a black grille, dual color-keyed mirrors, and all-vinyl seats. Options included high-back bucket seats (with an orange trim color available on the Grabber only), forged aluminum wheels, a leather-wrapped steering wheel, a heavy-duty suspension package of springs, shocks, and a front stabilizer bar, and manual front disc brakes, though no prices for any of these were found in the sources consulted for the year.4
The record's own specifications section flags an internal oddity in the published curb weights: the Grabber is listed at 2,900 lb while the plain two-door sedan is listed at 2,968 lb, meaning the base car reads heavier than the package car as printed by the source, a discrepancy the record notes without correcting rather than assuming which of the two figures is the transcription error. Sixteen exterior colors were charted for 1974, including standard shades like Bright Red, Light Blue, Polar White, and Orange alongside several metallic and "Glow" finishes, Ginger Glow, Green Glow, Tan Glow, and a Silver Blue Glow restricted to the Luxury Decor Option. Interior colors ran to Black, Medium Blue, Avocado, and Tan generally, with Orange available on the Grabber only and Silver Blue restricted to the LDO, mirroring the exterior color's own LDO-only restriction.4
The pairing of an orange-only Grabber interior and a matching Orange exterior color underscores how tightly the two color lists were coordinated for the package specifically, rather than simply drawing from the same general palette available on plain Mavericks. No performance figures or identification codes were found for the 1974 model year in any source consulted, leaving production counts, prices, the Grabber's own standard-content list, and this color and trim detail as the whole of what this record can document. The heavy-duty suspension and manual front disc brakes offered as separate options, alongside forged aluminum wheels and a leather-wrapped steering wheel, again point toward buyers upgrading ride and stopping power on top of the Grabber's own visual package rather than toward any additional engine performance option recorded for the year.4
Fact sheet · 1974 · United States
The numbers
1974 Ford Maverick Grabber — Grabber production fell to 23,502 by Classic Industries count.
Coverage: Partial — researched sections are shown; missing ones are not yet sourced. Researched through 2026-09-23.
Every figure is labeled with how sure we are. Reported means a manufacturer, registry, or reference figure we cite but have not reconciled against factory records ourselves. Disputed means credible sources disagree and both are shown. Rows are separately scoped; don't add them together unless the note says they make up a total.
Production
| What was counted | Count | Basis | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| All 1974 Mavericks (conceptcarz total)5 as published A total stated by the page. It equals the sum of the body rows below (137,728 + 139,818 + 23,502 Grabber), which repeat the Classic Industries rows, so it is the same lineage with a stated whole-year figure, not an independent count. | 301,048 | built, model-year | Reported |
| What was counted | Count | Basis | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grabber1 Grabber · 2-door · as published | 23,502 | built, model-year | Reported |
| What was counted | Count | Basis | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2-door sedan1 Maverick · 2-door sedan · as published | 139,818 | built, model-year | Reported |
| 4-door sedan1 Maverick · 4-door sedan · as published | 137,728 | built, model-year | Reported |
Body and Grabber rows as published by Classic Industries; conceptcarz states a 1974 whole-year total (301,048) equal to their sum, so the rows partition the year on that page (same lineage, not an independent count).
Searched 2026-09-29: conceptcarz (series modelID 543), Wikipedia, the Classic Industries and Standard Catalog lineages already cited.
Prices when new
| Model | Price | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Factory price, Maverick Grabber two-door (six)2,3 | $2,923 | factory price, base car before options, 1974 model year |
| Factory price, Maverick Grabber two-door (V-8)2 | $3,081 | factory price, base car before options, 1974 model year |
| Factory price, Maverick two-door sedan (six)3 | $2,742 | factory price, base car before options; row-aligned reading, 1974 model year |
| Factory price, Maverick two-door sedan (V-8)3 | $2,949 | factory price, base car before options; row-aligned reading, 1974 model year |
| Factory price, Maverick four-door sedan (six)3 | $2,824 | factory price, base car before options; row-aligned reading, 1974 model year |
| Factory price, Maverick four-door sedan (V-8)3 | $2,982 | factory price, base car before options; row-aligned reading, 1974 model year |
Prices are the nominal dollars of the day, not adjusted for inflation.
Options and packages
| Code | Option | Price | Installed |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Grabber standard content: 200 six, D70x14 Wide Oval raised-white-letter tires, hub caps and trim rings, bodyside/back panel/valance paint-tape, hood tape with Grabber decal, black grille, dual color-keyed mirrors, all-vinyl seats4 | — | Not yet sourced |
|
High-back bucket seats (orange available on Grabber only)4 | — | Not yet sourced |
|
Forged aluminum wheels4 | — | Not yet sourced |
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Leather-wrapped steering wheel4 | — | Not yet sourced |
|
Heavy-duty suspension (springs, shocks, front stabilizer bar)4 | — | Not yet sourced |
|
Manual front disc brakes4 | — | Not yet sourced |
Paint
| Code | Color | Built |
|---|---|---|
2B |
Bright Red4 | Not yet sourced |
3B |
Light Blue4 | Not yet sourced |
3E |
Medium Bright Blue Metallic4 | Not yet sourced |
3N |
Bright Blue4 | Not yet sourced |
4B |
Bright Green Gold Metallic4 | Not yet sourced |
4V |
Dark Yellow Green Metallic4 | Not yet sourced |
4W |
Medium Lime Yellow4 | Not yet sourced |
5H |
Medium Brown Metallic4 | Not yet sourced |
5T |
Saddle Bronze Metallic4 | Not yet sourced |
5W |
Orange4 | Not yet sourced |
6C |
Medium Yellow Gold4 | Not yet sourced |
9D |
Polar White4 | Not yet sourced |
5J |
Ginger Glow4 | Not yet sourced |
3M |
Silver Blue Glow (LDO only)4 | Not yet sourced |
4T |
Green Glow4 | Not yet sourced |
5U |
Tan Glow4 | Not yet sourced |
Color names are the factory's. We don't show color swatches, because a screen color is no guide for a restoration.
Interiors
| Code | Trim | Built |
|---|---|---|
|
Interior colors listed: Black, Medium Blue, Avocado, Tan, Orange (Grabber only), Silver Blue (LDO only)4 | Not yet sourced |
Specifications
| Measure | Value | Applies to |
|---|---|---|
| Curb weight, Grabber4 | 2,900 lb | Grabber 2-door |
| Curb weight, 2-door4 | 2,968 lb | 2-door (as printed, heavier than the Grabber) |
Identification
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Also in 1974
- AMC AMX The final Javelin AMX: 4,980 built, with the Go Package's cowl induction dropped and a production run that stretched into November 1974.
- AMC Gremlin X and Spirit AMX The Gremlin X gained a 'hockey stick' stripe. The 304 V8 remained available, but no X or V8 counts for the year were found.
- AMC Javelin The Javelin's final year: 22,556 non-AMX cars on a production run extended into November 1974.
- Buick Riviera Colonnade pillared roof; 20,129 built, 1,698 with Stage One and 4,119 with the GS handling option.
- Buick Skylark Gran Sport, GS and GSX The last year a 455 Stage 1 could be had in a Buick intermediate Gran Sport; 3,355 were built, 478 of them Stage 1.
- Chevrolet Chevelle and Malibu SS The SS was gone; the new Laguna Type S-3 coupe carried the Chevelle's performance image, with a 235 net hp 454 still on the engine list.
- Chevrolet Chevy II and Nova Spirit of America Nova (RPO Z51) offered on the Custom hatchback per the source. Enthusiast-compiled production: 390,537 cars; Super Sport 21,419.
- Chevrolet El Camino SS Colonnade-era El Camino; Chevrolet's 1974 data pages define the RPO Z15 SS option for the El Camino Classic. Team Chevelle's production totals give 51,223 El Caminos built, 4,543 of them with SS equipment.
- Dodge Challenger The last original-era Challenger shared a catalog with the Dart; the 360 replaced the 340 as the optional engine and production ended in April 1974.
- Dodge Charger The last B-body Charger before the 1975 personal-luxury redesign, with 5-mph bumpers, carried-over powertrains and an SE that accounted for 30,957 V-8 cars.
- Dodge Dart GTS, Swinger and Demon The 360 replaced the 340 in the Dart Sport, and Flory's production table counts 3,951 Dart Sport 360s at a $3,244 base price.
- Ford Ranchero GT The Ranchero GT continued on the 1972-76 Ranchero; 11,328 GTs were built, per reference-site counts in the Standard Catalog lineage.
- Ford Thunderbird Sixth-generation personal-luxury Thunderbird; the record holds the production total and the luxury-group option prices only.
- Ford Torino The 1974 Torino grew again and added the Gran Torino Elite; the Gran Torino Sport survived only as a formal-roof hardtop, with 23,142 built.
- Mercury Cougar Outside the muscle focus: 91,670 Cougars for 1974 per Wikipedia's table.
- Oldsmobile Cutlass, 4-4-2 and Hurst/Olds The Hurst/Olds paced the Indianapolis 500 again and offered a 350 for the first time: 1,800 coupes, 380 of them with the 455 W-30.
- Plymouth Barracuda and 'Cuda The final year: Barracuda and 'Cuda hardtops with a standard 318 and a new optional 360, and 11,734 built before the line ended.
- Plymouth Duster 340 and 360 The 245 net hp 360 replaced the 340 in the Duster's best sales year: 3,969 Duster 360s among 281,378 Dusters, with Twister, Gold Duster and Space Duster packages priced separately.
- Plymouth GTX, Belvedere and Satellite In 1974 a GTX nameplate came with the Road Runner's optional 440 four-barrel, TorqueFlite required; Mueller's Muscle Car Source Book counts 386 of them.
- Plymouth Road Runner The last Satellite-based Road Runner; production roughly halved from 1973.
- Pontiac Firebird and Trans Am A new nose and the last Super Duty: 10,255 Trans Ams, 943 with the SD-455.
- Pontiac GTO The last original GTO: a package on the compact Ventura with a 200 hp 350; 7,058 built.
- Pontiac Grand Am A revised nose and 17,083 built, only 342 with a four-speed.
- Pontiac Grand Prix The 455 remains the SJ engine as Grand Prix volume falls to under 100,000.
- Pontiac Tempest and LeMans With the GTO moved to the Ventura, the LeMans GT package became the intermediate performance choice, backed by 350, 400 and 455 V8 options.