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.
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