If Semon "Bunkie" Knudsen hadn't left General Motors to join Ford Motor Company in 1968, chances are there never would have been a Boss 429 Mustang. Knudsen had risen through the ranks at GM, first as ...
It wasn’t built to be a boulevard cruiser or a poser’s muscle car. The 1969 Mustang Boss 429 came to play hardball.
Editor's Note: This article on the 1969Ford MustangBoss 302, 1969FordMustang Boss 429, and 1971Ford MustangBoss 351 originally appeared in the Winter 2010 Issue ofMotor Trend Classic. Ford won the ...
In 1969, only a few months after the debut of the 428-cubic-inch (7.0-liter) Cobra Jet engine, Ford introduced three new performance Mustangs. The lineup included the Mach 1, available with various ...
Ford’s Boss 429-powered Mustang was a homologation special that allowed Ford to run its Chrysler Hemi competitor in NASCAR. Surprising no one, the engine bred for NASCAR’s superspeedways getting ...
The Boss 429 Mustang isn’t only rare. Offered between 1969 and 1970, the pony-turned-muscle car edged out the HEMI 426 because Ford took inspiration from Chrysler for the semi-hemispherical design.
The late 1960s and early 1970s were the golden age of muscle cars. Packed with charisma, outrageous power, and ostentatious design, they thrived during the muscle car wars of the mid-1960s. Chrysler ...
The 2018 SEMA show will be used as a platform to debut a series of all-new, Ford-licensed Mustang Boss 429 continuations. The turnkey classic Boss Mustangs are the first of three Fords from the ...
Serious collectors know that the search for any holy grail find can take you to all manner of unexpected places. So, it’s actually not all that surprising that one of the rarest examples of the ...
To the casual observer, the color is the main attraction of Rick Parker's beautifully restored '69 Boss 429 Mustang. Boss 429s look bad in black. But Rick looks at KK1220 with an educated eye knowing ...
Those of us whose parents had even a passing interest in cars were blessed. For instance, my dad was an NHRA member in the mid-1950s and bought a 1966 Coronet that got tuned at Ray Nichels' Firestone ...