The Boss 429 Ford Built an Entire Mustang Just to Make One Engine Legal.

Ford had the engine. Ford did not have a car that would hold it. So in a low gray building in Brighton, Michigan, in the winter of 1969, men in canvas aprons took brand new Mustangs with a dozen miles on the odometer and cut the shock towers out of the front of them by hand. The rule said 500 engines had to be sold to the public. It never said what they had to be sold in. We cover the 429 that Ford called the Shotgun, aluminum heads with no head gasket and better than 550 horsepower in race trim, and the Kar Kraft shop that rebuilt roughly 860 Mustangs from the firewall forward between January and July of 1969. Also the $4,798 sticker when a plain Mustang started under $3,000, and the detail almost nobody gets right about where that engine actually raced. Boss 429 or 426 Hemi. Ford's hand built loophole or Chrysler's factory hammer. And if you ever saw one in person, tell us where. #Boss429 #BossMustang #KarKraft #FordPerformance #DetroitIron