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LOT #741 - 1969 FORD MUSTANG BOSS 429 – NO RESERVE
BIG BOSS
THE 429 SHOWCASES FORD’S BEST SPECIALIZED
HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPONENTS FROM 1969
For today’s hard-core “Blue Oval” the intricate cutting and relocation
fans and demanding collectors, no of the factory-original front shock
other performance car compares towers and a lowered front ride
to Ford’s mighty and rare Boss 429 height.
Mustang of 1969-70. Designed A complete package and far more
and built at the height of Ford than the sum of its many specific
Motor Company’s all-out “Total parts, the Boss 429 Mustang was
Performance” corporate campaign, loaded with Ford’s best specialized
the storming new Mustang had just high-performance components.
one purpose – to homologate Ford’s Among them were a stout Toploader
new HEMI-head Boss 429 engine close-ratio 4-speed transmission,
for NASCAR Grand National racing. 9-inch Traction-Lok rear end with
Ford was motivated by an urgent 3.91:1 gears, engine oil cooler,
need for a racing powerplant with trunk-mounted battery, competition
better high-rpm breathing than suspension with front and rear
- - - the venerable 427 “Wedge” and anti-roll bars and staggered rear
THIS ROYAL MAROON 1969 FORD NASCAR’s refusal to approve the shocks, power front disc/rear drum
MUSTANG BOSS 429 IS AMONG THE exotic SOHC 427 “Cammer.” brakes, and chrome Magnum 500
FIRST 279 CARS OF THE SERIES While Ford’s then-current NASCAR wheels with aggressive F60x15
PRODUCED WITH THE SPECIAL contenders were the Torino belted raised-white-letter tires. A
“S-CODE” ENGINES FEATURING Talladega, Mercury Cyclone and large cold-air intake scoop atop the
long Mustang hood, discreet Boss
Cyclone Spoiler II, Ford went
HEAVIER-DUTY NASCAR-SPEC to extra lengths to fit the huge 429 decals at each front fender, and
CONNECTING RODS, BEEFY ½-INCH new “crescent head” Boss 429ci a decidedly menacing forward-raked
ROD BOLTS, AND CROSS-DRILLED V8 into the Mustang. While an stance were the only external clues
FORGED CRANKSHAFTS. expensive, labor-intensive move by of the mechanical mayhem ready to
- - - volume-oriented Ford, only 500 be unleashed by the Boss 429.
Boss 429 engines needed to be Ford officially rated the “street” Boss
installed into a production Ford 429 at 375 horsepower, a figure well
Motor Company model – any below both its actual and potential
would do. Consequently, extensive output. Listed from $4,087 new, the
modifications were required to Boss 429 Mustang was the priciest
create the “Boss ’9” Mustang, with non-Shelby Mustang Ford offered at
the cars essentially hand-built the time. Depending on the source
by Ford racing subcontractor Kar consulted, production reached
Kraft of Brighton, Michigan, with 858-859 (including two Boss 429
structural modifications including Cougars) for 1969, followed by
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