The Boss 429 and 429 Super Cobra Jet were both vastly underrated for horsepower. But that similarity masked huge differences ...

Boss 429 Mustangs are muscle car royalty, their performance potential, limited production, and overall iconic status putting them in the same rarified air as Hemi 'Cudas, LS6 Chevelles, and other ...

Ford unveiled the Boss 429 in 1969 after NASCAR had disallowed its 427 single overhead cam motor. Decision makers inside Ford were tired of getting whupped in NASCAR competition by Chevrolet's ...

Like those classic Greek stories you read in school, the mythology surrounding classic muscle cars often strays quite far from reality--and there is perhaps no better example than the Boss 429 Mustang ...

A listing on Auction123 features a 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 429, one of the rarest high-performance variants of the first-generation Mustang. But what makes this example even more intriguing is that it ...

I drove a Coyote-swapped '68 Mustang a little while ago, and I thought that was just about the pinnacle of what was possible performance-wise for a classic bodyshell to contain. But it never had quite ...

In gearhead terminology, the word hemi refers to the generally hemispherical shape of an engine's cylinder head combustion chamber. In the truest sense of the word, no automobile engine actually has a ...

"Writing to Uplift the World" In his General Manager role, Iacocca oversaw the Ford Mustang design project from 1962 to 1965. The design team was given five clear goals. The Mustang must be able to ...

The Boss 429 and 429 Super Cobra Jet V8 engines rank as some of the most powerful engines ever put in the Ford Mustang. In fact, if we limit our discussion to first-gen Mustangs, these engines, both ...

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 ...

View post: This Manual RTR Mustang Makes More Power Than the GTD at Half the Price Produced only for 1969 and 1970, the Mustang Boss 429 was created to house Ford’s 7.0-liter (429 cu in) big-block V8, ...