The Ford Boss 429 Mustang stands as a hallmark of American automotive history, renowned for its powerful engine and limited ...

Despite winning six straight Manufacturers’ Championships heading into 1969, Ford refused to ease off the gas. So it cooked up the 1969 Mustang Boss 429. Though it never actually raced in NASCAR, the ...

The golden muscle car era was a fabulous period for many reasons. Dealerships were packed with high-performance rigs, and Detroit was rolling out drag-ready factory cars like it was nobody's business.

Perception and reality are often widely disparate things. That couldn't be truer than with the legendary Boss 429 Mustang and the semi-hemi engine for which it was named. It is the darling of the ...

(A, B)Boss 429 No. 1, without Boss Id. on fenders or the rear wing, being wrung out in snow at Ford, circa 1968. Among the "Milestone Musclecars" that will eventually appear in this series, the Boss ...

"Ohio George" Montgomery was racing long before the Ford Boss 429 showed up on the scene in 1969. He had raced at Bonneville as early as 1951, but became a legend in drag racing after building a light ...

Introduced in 1964, the Ford Mustang sold more than a half-million units in 1965 and 1966. Sales dropped dramatically toward the end of the golden muscle car era, but Ford still managed to move nearly ...

A rare 1970 Ford Mustang achieved $627,000 at auction this month. Only 499 Boss 429s were built for 1970, 13 with this car’s color combo. Ford created the Boss’s 7-liter hemi-head V8 to beat Chrysler ...

Ford is one of the most well-known car brands in the world. Even after 120 years of service, the company is still going strong today, with much of that success being owed to its exceedingly popular ...

Ford introduced the 385 big block V8 engine series in the late 1960s as it phased out the MEL (Mercury Edsel Lincoln) big block design. The 385 big block, named for the 3.85-inch crankshaft stroke ...