74 spectra20 v-drive
74 spectra20 v-drive
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My Nephew sends me a text today "Hey, can I borrow $325,000, it's for my Dad" that would be my Brother... Well, I get back and ask if everything is ok? then another text comes over with some pictures of a 69' Boss 429 Mustang. It's my Brothers old car that he had to sell in 09', right after the last Dem took over the country and construction took a down turn.
Turns out the guy my Brother sold the car to did a complete resto on this thing and sold it and now its selling again. My Brother bought the car as a Senior in High School in 71' from a Corvette dealer in Bellflower (original owner) who didn't like the way the car handled. My Brother had this car from 71' to 09' and it only had 30,000 and change on the odometer. There was always a question on authenticity about the car as it didn't have the KK# on the door but it had a Shelby number?? My Brother bought the thing with hardly any miles on it but it had been stolen off the Corvette lot and ditched in a filed in Santa Fe Springs. The drivers door was crunched in but fixable and a couple other little issues, so he always new it was a real Boss9 but that plague was in question. Turns out when they did the resto they found two build sheets in the car, one from Kar Kraft and one from Shelby America. There were several Boss 9's that were sold to SA and this was one of them. Pretty cool, and probably would have added to the value back in 09' but what the hell... They have a full list of data on the car including my brothers name and the years he owned it, the Asking price is $325K and they had several bidders....
My Brother is the oldest of 7 kids in our family and I am the youngest, I spent a lot of time in the back seat of this car as a kid and as a teen ager I got to move to the front seat! Being that there was only 30,000 miles on this car you can tell it didn't come out to often. Still the most violent car I have ever ridden in and that motor would RPM as it was built to do just that, it would spin up to 7k and sounded so cool. He did swap the cam shaft and they were sold with a very pedestrian set up, but holy crap the right cam woke it up, he ran 12's in the early 70's with this thing.
My Nephew went thru a mechanics trade school and they had some dyno training, my nephew likes to talk and was bragging about the Boss9 in his dads garage, a couple of the guys with rice burners were saying they could make more power on the dyno with their cars than that old Mustang. He showed up with the Mustang and the 30 year old poly glass tires and they barked out almost 475 hp. to the Dyno. Really a bummer he had to sell it, interior was mint, the paint was shit, single stage no clear from 71' but straight.
Turns out the guy my Brother sold the car to did a complete resto on this thing and sold it and now its selling again. My Brother bought the car as a Senior in High School in 71' from a Corvette dealer in Bellflower (original owner) who didn't like the way the car handled. My Brother had this car from 71' to 09' and it only had 30,000 and change on the odometer. There was always a question on authenticity about the car as it didn't have the KK# on the door but it had a Shelby number?? My Brother bought the thing with hardly any miles on it but it had been stolen off the Corvette lot and ditched in a filed in Santa Fe Springs. The drivers door was crunched in but fixable and a couple other little issues, so he always new it was a real Boss9 but that plague was in question. Turns out when they did the resto they found two build sheets in the car, one from Kar Kraft and one from Shelby America. There were several Boss 9's that were sold to SA and this was one of them. Pretty cool, and probably would have added to the value back in 09' but what the hell... They have a full list of data on the car including my brothers name and the years he owned it, the Asking price is $325K and they had several bidders....
My Brother is the oldest of 7 kids in our family and I am the youngest, I spent a lot of time in the back seat of this car as a kid and as a teen ager I got to move to the front seat! Being that there was only 30,000 miles on this car you can tell it didn't come out to often. Still the most violent car I have ever ridden in and that motor would RPM as it was built to do just that, it would spin up to 7k and sounded so cool. He did swap the cam shaft and they were sold with a very pedestrian set up, but holy crap the right cam woke it up, he ran 12's in the early 70's with this thing.
My Nephew went thru a mechanics trade school and they had some dyno training, my nephew likes to talk and was bragging about the Boss9 in his dads garage, a couple of the guys with rice burners were saying they could make more power on the dyno with their cars than that old Mustang. He showed up with the Mustang and the 30 year old poly glass tires and they barked out almost 475 hp. to the Dyno. Really a bummer he had to sell it, interior was mint, the paint was shit, single stage no clear from 71' but straight.
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