KK
1969 in front of the Blackhawk Museum/CA
Shiny Black Jade BOSS treatment
Original
magnesium head covers, snorkel equipment in a low mileage BOSS 429
All pictures Gary Branson
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 The Story of a
no-limits KK 1969 resto project
Gary Branson is the proud owner of this Black Jade 1969 BOSS 429. Gary
initially was not much into Mustangs, but knew a thing or two about
Cobra Jets, Mach 1 and such. While being at a car show in 1995, he
spotted his first BOSS 429 and fell in love with it. After talking with
the owner about the value, he ruled it out however for the next years. 4
years later a friend called him and told him, there would be 3 BOSS cars
on sale, a BOSS 302, a BOSS 351 and a BOSS 429 from one family.
Just for curiousity Gary and his friend went there to have a look. It
turned out that the owner had died in the early 90ies and left the cars
with his parents, who recognized, they could gain some more value over
the years and kept them in dry storage. Meanwhile however the father had
died as well and the family was ready to sell them.
Gary placed an order that was immediately turned down. As Gary had BUICK
455GS Stage 1 just under restoration, he was somehow reliefed that the
offer had been not taken.
But on his way home, he got a message that they would accept the order.
Immediately he made his way back again and made a deposit.
After having sold the Buick, Gary got hold of the low mileage (26500
miles) car. It had only minor dings and dengs, but was in fairly
neglected status and not driveable. So he went on to do a no-limits
rotisserie restoration to get it back to its previous glory. After
dissasembly the body was massaged, prepped and painted without any time
pressure and with high-level skills of the body shop. 12.000 dollar
later Gary got the perfectly lacquered and polished body back for
reassembly, where still - having went to numerous local shows and
collecting trophy after trophy - nobody has spotted any failure in the
surface. Meanwhile Gary had the engine overhauled, heads polished,
each and every nut bought new from AMK or phosphat and oil treated,
countless numbers of NOS-parts acquired and learned a lot about BOSS 429
concours restoration from Bob Perkins.. Paint daubts were re-applied in
the correct manner and a complete underbody detailing was in order.
Original parts like the generator, steering parts and such were
overhauled to keep the car in its original status.
There are only a few items that are not original or NOS such as the MSD
ignition set-up.
If you'd like to learn more about Gary's treasure see his own website
OFF-LIMIT
BOSS 429
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