The "Lawman" may do permanent damage to your ears. You can hear it roar in the video below from the nine-minute mark, but be careful with that volume knob, especially if you're using headphones. And because it doesn't have any mufflers, it sounds downright insane. The best part is that it's ready to run down the quarter-mile again. It sports a perfect "Lawman" livery, packs a massive, supercharged V8, and flaunts a white interior that looks like it just left the factory. Almost 20 years later and the car has been restored to its former glory. That's when Bill Goldberg took ownership of the car. Raced for a few years and put in storage, the Boss 429 was auctioned off for $132,000 in 2003. Fresh Lawman graphics are part of the 2018-’20 restoration, which we’ll cover next month. The gas tank (and therefore the trunk floor) was removed radiator and battery now live in the trunk.
The muscle car changed a few owners after McCormick's death before it ended up with Al Eckstrand, the man behind the Lawman program. The supercharged Boss 429 pulled nearly 1,000 horsepower and 800 lb-ft of torque during its 2020 rebuild. The contest was called Richs Tri-A-Rama and featured racing cars, racing boats. Ford sold the car to Dave McCormick, who raced it in the Detroit area in the 1970s. The AMA History Project Presents: Autobiography of WILLIAM (BILL) BOSS. When the campaign came to an end, Ford brought only two of the six Mustangs back to the States. As a result, the "Lawman" is one of two such cars ever built and the sole survivor. The Boss 429 was accidentally destroyed when a shipping container fell on it, but Ford built an identical replacement. It was also the only Boss 429 fitted with an automatic gearbox.Īll six cars toured the Pacific to be showcased at military bases in Vietnam, the Philippines, South Korea, and Japan. Designed to demonstrate what customers could put together using performance equipment available from dealers, the Boss 429 left the factory as a supercharged monster with 1,000 horsepower.
Five of them were Cobra Jet models, while the sixth was a Boss 429. It was built as part of the Lawman program, through which Ford wanted to bring its latest muscle cars to the men and women of the Armed Forces who were serving overseas.įord built six beefed-up muscle cars for this project. Dubbed "Superboss," this quarter-mile beast has an interesting story to tell.
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