What comes to mind when you read the phrase “Ford Mustang restomod”? Hokey digital dashes, floppy body kits, massive chunks of billet shoehorned into modest ’60s wheelwells? Yeah, us too. Over the past couple of decades, we’ve seen a troubling number of Ford’s original pony cars lost to the void between imagination and reality, and that’s putting it about as nicely as we know how.
But Revology is here to build some bridges. With the stated aim of melding classic soul and modern luxury, the company is already an established force in the industry, having brought numerous reimaged classic 1966, ’67, and ’68 Mustang and Shelby cars to market over a decade in business, and its latest effort takes on another absolute legend: the 1969 Mustang Boss 429.
What Is a Boss 429 Mustang?
Offered in 1969 and 1970, Ford’s original Boss 429 Mustang was rarified air, an extra-muscley Ford in an era rich with muscley Fords. It was homologation special, meant to satisfy the 500-unit production minimum to make the car—and, more to the point, the engine—eligible for NASCAR competition.
The engine that served as the Boss 429’s namesake, a 429-cubic-inch “semi-hemi” V-8, was a pure product of Ford’s race development program, in partnership with frequent contractor Kar Kraft. In response to the emergence of Chrysler’s 426 Hemi V-8 as a dominant force in stock car racing, NASCAR had instituted a 429-cubic-inch limit on displacement in 1968, but Ford wasn’t deterred. It had its own canted-valve big-block ready to go for the next racing season, and the rest is performance history.
Improving the Bloodline
This Boss 429 definitely isn’t that Boss 429—for one thing, it makes use of the 5.0-liter Coyote engine from the current Mustang Dark Horse, though with the addition of a supercharger that brings advertised output to 710 hp, making it quite a bit burlier than the original. But then Revology’s Boss was always intended to be more than a jewel box for an exotic powerplant.
The company tells us the build process begins with a brand-new steel unibody, to which manufacturing and CAD design processes right out of the OEM tool chest are applied to achieve rigidity and refinement heretofore unheard of in a classic Mustang. And just as with a large-scale late-model product, the entirety of the vehicle is honed and readied for production in the digital design space before a single fastener or lick o