1969 Ford Mustang Boss 429 - Jay Leno's Garage

security, so I didn't want to use it, it wasn't in your way, yeah, you could just duck it, just duck it, forget about bothering with it, yeah, let's take a look inside the trunk, okay? I brought something in the trunk for you to see too and this one has a real trunk where you can put things in here. Wow, look at the size of that battery it's huge, yeah, so the batteries were all mounted in the trunk of these cars and because of the size of the 15 inch wheels they had to put these spaces, let's say, oh, the space of Davis spare, but I brought what I wanted to show as well, this was the literature, you know, not all Ford dealers were performance dealers, so this here.

It is considered the holy grail of literature by the 69 70 Mustangs by the Cobra Jets by the

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es 429 s I remember that in my neighborhood it wasThe tasks to be done in Rhode Island Casca were enormous, yes, they were the high-achieving guys. I used to work at a place called Wilmington Ford, yeah, and it's a lot of fun. I remember those days and I mean, this just shows that it gives dealers the help that Ford wanted. show them how to sell these cars, position themselves correctly against the mopars of the moment, help them with different things they can buy for their dealership, so you know you'll see something; a lot of them had the performance corner and then they have all kinds of parts that they sell there and all the cars cause total performance and total performance that's what it was yeah you know it's a lot of fun you brought some magazines and I remember having bought these magazines when I was a child, yes, I have this issue. a hot rod eBay yes, they get all the stuff on eBay now, there you have to turn right.

Can we take him out for a little spin on that puzzle? Yeah, yeah, of course, so this guy had 49,000 miles on it. It's the original mileage when I got it, yeah it's the original miles, it was one owner that originally bought it in

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because Eric bought it and documented everything so it was really attractive to the car, like a thousand miles a year, huh , yeah, it's not much, you know when you think about it. about what these cars are like and you know they are much better to drive. I remember there was that sale in Nebraska where people bought a '63 Chevy with two miles on it, yeah, I guess you still have to pull the piston, you have to go all out, yeah. but something that was started once a month, you know, it has some power, yes, yes, but the power steering on the stack breaks down and makes it really easy to drive, there you go, the German third, but it's fun to see the cars as they were. produced you know it's funny when you read the road test because it buckled pretty fast they turn horrible they just couldn't stop them and take the corners but that was the real test so you have these outrageous cars like you know the Hemi Cudas and some of the things that are crazy straight until you showed up, then I got into that game why this drives very well this is the first

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24:29 powered by itself I still have a new respect I thought it would be putting the foot in and be and you know you listen to the mouth to get together to come out well you have to tune it right I mean, yeah, there's a little bit of work that goes into this, I had to completely disassemble the carburetor again, a machine, everything to make it out true, but it's funny, you know the carburetor here is a 7:35, it's smaller than the Boss 302 carburetor, yes, you put a big carburetor here. you get rid of the smog, open the exhaust, it's a completely different car, yeah, you can take a road trip in this thing, sure, keep it running, hit the gas, it's like the world's strongest old man, you know, the David's little book, it's a bit too in your face, yes we have to have a lot of faith, well the temperatures are quite high today but it's working downtown, nice and cool, yes it's made to work I mean , it's a beautiful show car, but you have to get this out and now the owners will meet us in the

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, what's Eric's name?

Eric, does he know we're driving in his car? He may have missed that, really real when he saw this. Yes, we told him there was some food and drink and then we drank. Yeah, you don't seem too worried, Eric, a dryer, come here, this is Eric, he owns this car, okay, yeah, how many miles have you put on this thing? Maybe 200, oh okay, it works great, that's great, you watermarked it. great job, it's an awesome car, very tight, nothing overheats because I really expected the engine to run, you know, a lot of valve noise and knocking and all that, just because of the bad gas and all that, but why does it run so Well, it's probably this. better than new, I think so, I think so, yes, yes, you have a good one on your hands here.

I'll give you double what it cost, new document, that's the way to do it. See you next week, visit this restoration workshop. good