Photo: Barrett-Jackson
Muscle cars of the 1960s are a dime a dozen, provided you know were to look. Restored, restomoded or tuned, they come in all shapes and sizes, some more glittering than others. We’ve covered them extensively over the past few months, but few are as exciting as the one featured in the gallery below.
Here lies a Ford Mustang Boss 429 from 1969, the first of two years of production for what some consider to be one of the rarest muscle cars ever made – just about 1,400 were produced, all as a means for Ford to homologate the Boss engine for NASCAR use against Chrysler’s Hemi.
So yes, you could easily say this here is a NASCAR-engined Mustang for road use. It is one of first 150 429s ever made, undoubtedly one of the best-looking still out there. And it’s for sale, as part of the Barrett-Jackson online auction scheduled to open in May.
Built as all others of its breed at Kar Kraft in Brighton, Michigan, the Mustang ponies up the advertised 375 hp, but as usual in such cases that’s a modest rating for an engine that proved on the dyno and elsewhere it is capable of much more than that. And in this case, the engine showed its worth on the road for some 71,000 miles.
Painted in a stunning red paint called Candy Apple, the Mustang offsets that with a pitch black interior, and black, period-correct Goodyear tires fitted on Magnum 500 wheels.
The car sells complete with the Kar Kraft number (KK1333) and the NASCAR identification label. Also thrown in the mix is a series of 2-foot by 3-foot poster boards that comprise all the documentation and can be used to advertise the car during car shows.
The car sells with reserve, but there is no mention of a number it might fetch.
So yes, you could easily say this here is a NASCAR-engined Mustang for road use. It is one of first 150 429s ever made, undoubtedly one of the best-looking still out there. And it’s for sale, as part of the Barrett-Jackson online auction scheduled to open in May.
Built as all others of its breed at Kar Kraft in Brighton, Michigan, the Mustang ponies up the advertised 375 hp, but as usual in such cases that’s a modest rating for an engine that proved on the dyno and elsewhere it is capable of much more than that. And in this case, the engine showed its worth on the road for some 71,000 miles.
Painted in a stunning red paint called Candy Apple, the Mustang offsets that with a pitch black interior, and black, period-correct Goodyear tires fitted on Magnum 500 wheels.
The car sells complete with the Kar Kraft number (KK1333) and the NASCAR identification label. Also thrown in the mix is a series of 2-foot by 3-foot poster boards that comprise all the documentation and can be used to advertise the car during car shows.
The car sells with reserve, but there is no mention of a number it might fetch.
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