1969 Ford "Boss 302" Mustang

The car I chose to write about this week is the 1969 Boss 302 Mustang. This is one of the special cars made by Ford in this year. This car is special because this is the year that Ford came out with the all new Boss 302 V8 engine which changed the auto industry. This engine was created by a former GM employee Larry Shinoda. This was a weird thing because GM is pretty much Ford's rival in the auto world. During this year a total of 7,013 were produced and were sold brand new for only $3,720. This is a desirable car because Ford upgraded many things with this car. Things they upgraded were Standard were disc brakes on the front, larger sway bars, heavier duty spindles, reinforced shock towers, a four speed manual transmission, and the Boss 302 V8 engine with its free-breathing Cleveland style heads, which had valves larger than most motors over a third larger in displacement. This car could go from 0 to 60 in 6.9 seconds and I know cars today go faster than that but this was fast for back then.

1965 Plymouth Barracuda

The first car i chose to write about is the 1965 Plymouth Barracuda. I chose to write about this car for many reasons. For one it's the car my dad has and its a pretty cool car, even though its not a more of a muscle car like some other cars. The Barracuda was produced between 1964 to 1974 and over those ten years the car changed. The style of Barracuda was only made between 1964 to 1966. During these two years Plymouth came out with an all new motor, this motor was the 273 V8, by far my favorite engine. It's my favorite because you can have several choices for shifter's from on the floor to on the column. My choice out of these two is on the column, 273 with a 3 on the tree. This meant that the engine size was a 273 V8 with a three speed transmission on the driving column. The car below is basically the same car my dad has but with different wheels and his doesn't have blue stripe down the hood.