The 1970 Ford Mustang Boss 302 arrived at a moment when Detroit’s muscle wars were defined by quarter-mile bragging rights, yet it quietly rewrote the rules for how a street car could handle, rev and ...

The Boss 302 Mustang was not a styling exercise or a marketing brainstorm. It was a weapon, conceived inside Ford with a single objective: to dominate Trans Am road racing and turn that success into ...

However, Ford was thinking in another direction, deciding to focus on efficiency and balance. The result was the small-block V8, a compact, lightweight engine that proved you didn't need massive ...

Having introduced the Cobra Jet engine in mid-1968, Ford unleashed three new models for the 1969 model year. The Mach 1 arrived as a performance package, while the Boss twins debuted as ...

Don started with a production '87 302-HO Mustang short-block, blueprinted at Jack Roush Performance Engineering.Because Don intended to shift the engine at 6,500 rpm, with a 7,000-rpm redline, ...