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<blockquote data-quote="Robert M" data-source="post: 1827305" data-attributes="member: 9628"><p>Since I have ultra low mile bone stock examples of each of the R-models, I have had this question posed to me more than once. I was not really sure what to say. One of my close friends who has been in the Mustang hobby for 30-40 years put it to me this way;</p><p></p><p>If I had the chance, or made the choice to buy a 69 or 70 BOSS429 Mustang and there were two to choose from, </p><p></p><p>-----One BOSS429 is a well preserved virgin, the car had some light street use and has all of its original parts, matching numbers and low to ultra low miles with an original nice interior. You could even put an "as it came from Ford" restored car in this catagory.</p><p></p><p>-----The other had been extensive drag race history, it has had the "snot beat out of it" on a regular basis noted by its record book and history, yes it has low drag race miles, the engine and or trans. and rear end have been replaced because of its race duty, the interior is sparse with a roll cage and fire extinguisher.</p><p></p><p>Both cars are priced identical - Which one would you choose to spend your money on, and take home??</p><p></p><p>These SVT Cobras etc, are the modern muscle cars that are the future HI-PO, BOSSes, Cobra Jets, Super Cobra Jets, etc. pricewise. When there time comes, they will be the sought after cars. In 1975 or even 1981, you could buy a BOSS429 for a couple thousand dollars, now they are in the $70K's+ for nice original or restored examples, new they were approx. $5500. These cars, with non-matching numbers, incorrect parts etc. suffer many thousand, some times tens of thousands at sale time. Yes these Cobra's are relatively new in comparision to a 30+ year old vintage muscle car, but the vintage muscle car was also a "late model" at one time. </p><p></p><p>Robert</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Robert M, post: 1827305, member: 9628"] Since I have ultra low mile bone stock examples of each of the R-models, I have had this question posed to me more than once. I was not really sure what to say. One of my close friends who has been in the Mustang hobby for 30-40 years put it to me this way; If I had the chance, or made the choice to buy a 69 or 70 BOSS429 Mustang and there were two to choose from, -----One BOSS429 is a well preserved virgin, the car had some light street use and has all of its original parts, matching numbers and low to ultra low miles with an original nice interior. You could even put an "as it came from Ford" restored car in this catagory. -----The other had been extensive drag race history, it has had the "snot beat out of it" on a regular basis noted by its record book and history, yes it has low drag race miles, the engine and or trans. and rear end have been replaced because of its race duty, the interior is sparse with a roll cage and fire extinguisher. Both cars are priced identical - Which one would you choose to spend your money on, and take home?? These SVT Cobras etc, are the modern muscle cars that are the future HI-PO, BOSSes, Cobra Jets, Super Cobra Jets, etc. pricewise. When there time comes, they will be the sought after cars. In 1975 or even 1981, you could buy a BOSS429 for a couple thousand dollars, now they are in the $70K's+ for nice original or restored examples, new they were approx. $5500. These cars, with non-matching numbers, incorrect parts etc. suffer many thousand, some times tens of thousands at sale time. Yes these Cobra's are relatively new in comparision to a 30+ year old vintage muscle car, but the vintage muscle car was also a "late model" at one time. Robert [/QUOTE]
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