This Company will Sell You a Brand New 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 429

If you walk into a Ford dealer today, you can pick up a 2018 Mustang GT that makes 460 hp, hits 60 mph in 4.4 seconds, and includes an optional magnetic suspension for less than $45,000. It will be comfortable and refined enough to take on a road trip, while still keeping up with the pricier BMW M4 on the track. But no matter how good the current car is, there’s always going to be a certain group of people who wish Ford would simply keep building vintage Mustangs. That’s where continuation builders such as Classic Recreations come in.

Classic Recreations has been building officially licensed Shelby Mustangs for a while, and according to our friends at AUTOMOBILE, they’re good. Really good. Recently, CR landed the license to build three more classic Mustangs: the 1969-1970 Boss 302, the 1969-1970 Boss 429, and the 1969-1970 Mach 1. These aren’t resto-mods, either. Underneath the vintage sheetmetal, you essentially get a brand new car.

“We chose to offer these new models because we wanted to expand our Ford offerings beyond just Shelbys,” said owner Jason Engel in a statement. “The Boss 429 is one of the coolest and rarest Mustangs ever produced, but they have gotten so valuable that most owners won’t drive them. This offers people the chance to own an incredibly rare car that they can actually drive, and with modern chassis and engine tech these cars will actually be faster and easier to drive than the original.”

Customers can choose to use an original 1969 or 1970 Mustang body, or they can order a new one that’s been licensed by Ford. Classic Recreations then drops in a custom-built engine that uses modern electronic fuel injection and engine management software the original cars didn’t have. The Boss 429 will only be available with a 429 cubic-inch engine, but the Boss 302 can be ordered with either a Coyote V-8 crate engine or a 363 cubic-inch stroker engine that’s built using a 302 block. The Mach 1, on the other hand, comes with any engine CR currently offers, including Ford’s 2.0-liter EcoBoost unit.

If it sounds like buying a brand new classic Mustang would be expensive, that’s because it is. Classic Recreations hasn’t released pricing on the latest additions to its lineup, but its GT350CR starts just under $170,000 and can easily be optioned past the $200,000 mark. Expect the rest of the lineup to be priced similarly.

Source: Classic Recreations

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