Hi, Guest
04-15-2006, 10:31 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-15-2006, 10:33 AM by ZTWsquared.)
Man ... talk about memories. The bitter rivalry between Chevy and Ford in the late '60s and early '70s was amazing -- there really isn't anything like it today; and the battles between the Z28 and Boss 302 (on the track and on the street) were legendary even then. I used to go to St. Jovite and Watkins Glen to see the Trans-am races and there were sometimes as many as 4 or 5 carloads of us.
There were a couple of Z28s and Boss 302s at my high school and they used to go out at lunch and stoplight race. Funny how things change ... the "adults" back then would shake their heads and cluck-cluck in disapproval, but somehow street racing wasn't seen as the scourge that it is now.
I lost two buddies in the 60s due to street racing --- in one accident a Chevy II with a 427 stuffed in it got airborn on Jane street and ended up in Black creek (right near the original Harvey's) --- the cops figured he was going 120 mph (200 kph) and he had started at the lights just at Wilson.
Anyway, back on topic, the car this Mustang Jones edition is based on still exists and is owned by two guys in Vancouver.
Question for the Fordophiles - why isn't this thing called the Boss 302? Did they sell off this name the same as they did GT40? Just askin'.
But good on Ford for making the engine a true 302 ci.
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There were a couple of Z28s and Boss 302s at my high school and they used to go out at lunch and stoplight race. Funny how things change ... the "adults" back then would shake their heads and cluck-cluck in disapproval, but somehow street racing wasn't seen as the scourge that it is now.
I lost two buddies in the 60s due to street racing --- in one accident a Chevy II with a 427 stuffed in it got airborn on Jane street and ended up in Black creek (right near the original Harvey's) --- the cops figured he was going 120 mph (200 kph) and he had started at the lights just at Wilson.
Anyway, back on topic, the car this Mustang Jones edition is based on still exists and is owned by two guys in Vancouver.
Question for the Fordophiles - why isn't this thing called the Boss 302? Did they sell off this name the same as they did GT40? Just askin'.
But good on Ford for making the engine a true 302 ci.
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2003 Focus ZX5 infra-red Track Rat - R*I*P
2003 ZX5 CD Silver Track Rat - retired, but still in the driveway
New track rat: 2000 ZX3, Atlantic Blue * JRSC with lots more to come
* New Zetec crate motor - NFG - thanks Topspeed *