And what appears to be a C3 Corvette from the '68-'73 production range.  Let's get a pic of that.  Seeing a Boss 429 in that condition just makes me want to take a bat to the head of whoever previously owned it as it looks like its been sitting in a field for three decades. 

Agreed, which is why allowing it to fall into such a state is treason. 

There are levels of original.  A "survivor" is a car with original paint, interior, etc., as it left the factory.  Then there are cars where just things that wore out were replaced (tires, bushings, shocks, tune up parts, etc., and even interior stuff, etc.).  After that its about original sheetmetal or 90% original sheetmetal, etc.  Beyond that its pretty much just a class of restoration or partial restoration.  A first rate restoration is one done with as many original, NOS, or OEM parts as possible.  Then it goes down from there. 

Often those books actually make it easier to counterfit the cars though.  Consider that if you wanted to buy one of those cars you would likely buy and read the book so you would know what to look for.  If a forger read the same book he is in prime position to fool you because the car would meet all of your expectations.  It isn't like they can list who every car ever built belongs to, and even if they could it would be out of date as soon as it was printed.  There are always cars that were thought destroyed that someone manages to bring back (bought from a junkyard, rebodied, acquired a title to an untitled car, etc).  Unfortunately its always some amount of a crap shoot buying cars this rare an valuable.  The money they bring also brings unscrupulous people who don't care about lying, forging, etc. if they can make big money. 

Where is the cobra?

Ya, but show me a cooler, better looking engine

I'm still waiting to see the Cobras.

TKOPerformance wrote:

Oh, that's pretty easy:

NOW yee talk'in!!!!!!! (My pants are getting tight!!)
6sal6

Met a guy back in the mid 80's when I was in high school that had a 427 SOHC "Cammer" engine on a stand in his living room and was asking 10k back then, I had no clue what it was back then but it looked cool!
 

O.K., I will ask the question no one else will:

Lance,
What made you think a Boss 429 Mustang was called a Cobra? There is nothing on the Boss 429 that says Cobra, but there are a number of places with Boss 429 logos. Was it the resto shop owner that called those cars Cobras?

TKOPerformance wrote:

rpm wrote:

TKOPerformance wrote:

Oh, that's pretty easy:

Better engine, more valuable and sought after... Yes.

Cooler, better looking... Nope, still second place
 

Opinions will vary, even amongst experts. 

Let me know when you run across one of those experts
 

NASCAR's David Pearson would qualify as an "expert" on big block Ford stuff.
I think he ran a 429(if he ran one.....he won with it!!!)
6s6

6sally6 wrote:

NASCAR's David Pearson would qualify as an "expert" on big block Ford stuff.
I think he ran a 429(if he ran one.....he won with it!!!)
6s6

Oh you could win with the the Boss 429, just not off the showroom floor.  The architecture was great.  Ford just backpedaled the execution, and they only got to try it for two years before the Feds neutered everything.  I knew a guy in college who had one that he bought for next to nothing during the gas crunch in the '70s.  He said stock it would barely turn a 14 second ET (not 14 flat, like 14.99).  The cam was all wrong for the heads, it had a rev limiter that stopped you from taking advantage of the range in which it could breathe, etc.  He hooked up with some guys from Holman and Moody I think who clued him in on how to make it run, and properly modified it was a dragstrip killer.  But you couldn't do that stuff today, it would devalue the car too much, there's too few left, etc. 

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