Any updates on the Moebius 72 Maverick?

['70 Grande]

Prototypes that never made it into production:

Boss 302 Maverick and Boss 429 Maverick 

[stavanzer]

Thanks for posting these! I'd seen the Boss 302 Mentioned, but did not know what it looked like.

Are those Wire Mags, are 5 Spoke Mags?

Maybe we can adapt the C Stripes from the recent '69 Ford Galaxie kit to the Maverick for the Boss 302 version.

 

[bigryan18]

I would love to replicate this one that's Coyote powered...

['70 Grande]

I have an article in an old issue of "Muscle Mustangs & Fast Fords" magazine somewhere in my library with a 1:1 '70 Boss 302 Maverick built to replicate what a factory offering would have looked like... that article inspired me to get a JoHan Mav and the Boss 302 from the AMT/Errl '69 Mercury Cougar Eliminator kit to build my own 1/25 version.

I'll dig a bit deeper in my library to see if I can find the article and post some pics from it. 

 

[Ragtop Man]

On 8/20/2025 at 10:20 PM, '70 Grande said:

Prototypes that never made it into production:

Boss 302 Maverick and Boss 429 Maverick 

Thank you !!!!!! Those are the exact two that I was recalling from the Charlie Henry book. Both would be fun builds that don't crush the workload on the bench. 

[Ragtop Man]

On 8/20/2025 at 10:52 PM, stavanzer said:

Thanks for posting these! I'd seen the Boss 302 Mentioned, but did not know what it looked like.

Are those Wire Mags, are 5 Spoke Mags?

Maybe we can adapt the C Stripes from the recent '69 Ford Galaxie kit to the Maverick for the Boss 302 version.

 

I had not noticed the wheels - they look as if they have a Motor Wheel center cap; wondering if there wasn't a project afoot ....??  Would love to know what the nomenclature under the "BOSS" on the fender is. 

[Ragtop Man]

Trivia freeks will also note the Mach 2 show car (one of two, IIRC, need to re-read the book) is still intact behind the Maverick at Kar Kraft as late as this pic was taken, approximately 1971. MUCH speculation about what happened to it. 

[Mark C.]

Would there ever be a world where we could hope for a 4-door version of the Maverick in order to cover the famous Gapp & Roush Pro Stock car?

[M W Elky]

8 hours ago, Mark C. said:

Would there ever be a world where we could hope for a 4-door version of the Maverick in order to cover the famous Gapp & Roush Pro Stock car?

Southern Motorsport hobbies has a nice resin body and the yesteryear decals available for this check out their website 

[Radretireddad]

9 hours ago, Mark C. said:

Would there ever be a world where we could hope for a 4-door version of the Maverick in order to cover the famous Gapp & Roush Pro Stock car?

You gotta love the hair helmet on the dude in the background. 😄👍

Edited Monday at 02:56 PM by Radretireddad

[Ragtop Man]

I wouldn't put it past them - but there would have to be a pretty solid business case for the one-off.

Pro Stock had advanced light years from the original Dyno Don car to the TJ Taxi. The innards would not be correct for an 'early' car, so the crossover work done with the F-Series is pretty well off the table. 

Drag kits always do well, maybe not as crazy as it would seem.

[sfhess]

Remember that the 4-door Maverick has a longer wheelbase than the 2-door, so it wouldn't be a simple body change

[tim boyd]

5 hours ago, Ragtop Man said:

 

Drag kits always do well, maybe not as crazy as it would seem.

Interesting comment.  That would also seem to be the case from my point of view.

But in researching my book Collecting Drag Racing Model Kits, I spoke to several current (as of 2020 when the book was written) and past model company managers, execs, and owners.  A fairly common theme was that yes, drag racing kits sell well at first, but then the sales drop off considerably more rapidly than with some other auto kit categories.  I was a bit surprised to hear this - I could understand it being the case back in the 1960s and 70s when the 1/1 scale drag racers were evolving so rapidly that a new kit would be out of date technically out of date soon, but not so much today when almost all drag racing kits are replicas of decades old 1/1 subjects that are revered for their livery, design, drivers, et al.  Still, that is what I was told by several that I spoke with during this time.  

What I did learn, also, is that while  drag racing themed kit sales drop off more rapidly, at least among the American producers they are still among the top selling categories of 1/1 replicas, ranking just behind pickup and SUV themed kits.  Keep in mind, again, this info is over five years old, and may not be reflective of today's market, and of course it excludes kit topics from the overseas manufacturers that seem to be very popular with readers of this forum. 

TB  

[Mark C.]

5 hours ago, sfhess said:

Remember that the 4-door Maverick has a longer wheelbase than the 2-door, so it wouldn't be a simple body change

The reason a 4-door body was chosen for this particular car.

Fun to think about though.

[Justin Porter]

3 hours ago, tim boyd said:

Interesting comment.  That would also seem to be the case from my point of view.

But in researching my book Collecting Drag Racing Model Kits, I spoke to several current (as of 2020 when the book was written) and past model company managers, execs, and owners.  A fairly common theme was that yes, drag racing kits sell well at first, but then the sales drop off considerably more rapidly than with some other auto kit categories.  I was a bit surprised to hear this - I could understand it being the case back in the 1960s and 70s when the 1/1 scale drag racers were evolving so rapidly that a new kit would be out of date technically out of date soon, but not so much today when almost all drag racing kits are replicas of decades old 1/1 subjects that are revered for their livery, design, drivers, et al.  Still, that is what I was told by several that I spoke with during this time.  

What I did learn, also, is that while  drag racing themed kit sales drop off more rapidly, at least among the American producers they are still among the top selling categories of 1/1 replicas, ranking just behind pickup and SUV themed kits.  Keep in mind, again, this info is over five years old, and may not be reflective of today's market, and of course it excludes kit topics from the overseas manufacturers that seem to be very popular with readers of this forum. 

TB  

The best way I can corroborate this is to offer what I have witnessed. Drag kits do almost always sell well. Even some of the ones you wouldn't expect to sell well - the Atlantis reissue of the Revell Mooneyes dragster for instance - do pretty well to the point where no matter how ridiculous a drag reissue may seem (Mopower Plymouth Funny for instance) you don't really want to be caught out without it on the shelf. The big catch, though, is that you have to accept that you will ultimately get stuck with product. There are a handful of kits that have seemed impervious to this in the past - for instance, while I could get them, I could never seem to have enough of the Revell Henry J Gassers on my shelves - but for a lot of drag kits there seems to be an initial bonanza followed by sales grinding to a halt. 

[stavanzer]

1 hour ago, Justin Porter said:

but for a lot of drag kits there seems to be an initial bonanza followed by sales grinding to a halt. 

I wonder Why that is?

I buy some Drag kits but not others.

Rails leave me cold, but I really Like Gassers, and AFX Cars.

[niteowl7710]

I suspect that when it comes to vintage drag racing there's so much home brewing going on that for people where accuracy matters any one given subject isn't close enough - even to other cars of the same brand - that one model wouldn't sufficiently cover multiple subjects. If Salvinos ever finishes the rumored current Toyota Funny Car project they've been tinkering with that one model kit would cover the 6 drivers of this season, and any teams that choose to continue running the Supra in 2026 even with Toyota factory support. It may also work backwards as I don't know nearly enough about modern NHRA to know how far back a 2025 body funny car would cover. 

But the point being one Toyota Funny Car is the base for multiple projects just needing Slixx or whomever to conjur up the other liveries.

 

[Ragtop Man]

Tim's comments are right on the money from what I've observed or suspected for a while. 

Knowing a few builders, they are INTO the drags and will research the daylights out of the project/era to get them just right. 

I'll theorize that it is possible to exhaust the build possiblities when the subject is a very specialized or specific (TJ Taxi, f'rinstance) vs. a generalized subject that can be harvested for parts in any number of ways (MPC Bantam, Miss Deal, etc.)

Moby has been pretty smart this way, IMO. The ability to reconfigure tooling for stock, S/S, AWB in their Mopar line is impressive. Not sure if I have ALL of them, but there is a good stack going waiting for the shop to be completed.