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Zero compromise -
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In January 1969 Ford Administration Service ordered 7 test mules in the Dearborn factory to be shipped over to Kar Kraft for a new exciting project - the BOSS 302. These pre-production BOSS 302 were all delivered as 351 Windsor (M-code) Sportsroof 69 models with VINs ranging from 9F02M148623 - 9F02M148629.
All of them received special suspension treatment by Kar Kraft, but only 3 of them received full dressing including an engine change, as most of them went to race teams, that wanted to develop their own combo for a real winner. One of these 3 got a 429 wedge engine and was later delivered to Smokey Yunick for further development of a road racer, as Bunkie Knudsen had his friend request. 
When it was almost finished and ready for testing, Smokey got a call from Bunkie to have it ready for the Talladega race a few days later. Smokey was not amused, but changed the car again for the specific set-up needed for a circle track. The 429 engine was pulled and a smaller Yunick-modified engine installed. Smokey knew that the rocker arm assembly was the weakest part of the engine and had disputes with stubborn Ford engineers for a long time. He told Bunkie that it would not stand it for a race and that is how it exactly went. Upon qualifying with Bucky Blackburn at the wheel, he led the race most of the time ..until a valve stem made its way through the rocker arm just 2 laps before the finish and that was the end. Anyway Bunkie Knudsen was fired the day before so there was no more pushing. The car was put on a trailer and rolled home.
This ultrarare BOSS 302 T/A Racer has been bought soon after parking it at the Yunick facilities by Ed Rose and raced in stock races. Ed Rose was the same guy who probably bought another blue BOSS 302 T/A, that was not raced at all, from Smokey together with the black/gold one and the acid-dipped 68 BOSS 302 test mule, that was in Yunicks shop at that time.
The Yunick Boss was restored around 1990 by Brooke Mossgrove in a 2 years period with some help from Rich Rodeck on specific suspension parts.
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Smokeys exhaust manifold set-up from 'down under'
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Nothing beats this set-up, I'd guess. Handfabricated art of an 3" exhaust organ that can be only played in the correct tune by a high-revving T/A engine.
Note the special separate 4-in-2 tube collectors and the double crossover draft tubes. Considering the thightness under a lowered race car, exhaust modelling without sacrificing highest possible flow stream for sure can be called an art in itself. [/TD]
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Everything hand-fabricated!
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[FONT=Arial]11,7" Kelsey-Hayes disc brakes from '69 Lincolns up front with cooling vent tubes were set-up with billet-machined hubs for the special 15" racing wheels.
Quick-rim-mounting was made possible with the extended center hubs and screw-on-style spinners.[/color]
Last edited by senor honda; Mar 26, 2023 at 09:48 AM.