’70 FORD MUSTANG BOSS 302

BUNKIE KNUDSEN’S STREET FIGHTER

by Rich Taylor

What’s it like to drive a Boss 302? “Like wearing six-guns,” says former Mustang SCCA TransAm racer Sam Posey. Exactly. Even two decades after it was built, the Boss 302 remains an adrenaline-pumping alley fighter, armed and dangerous. Ironically, this street-fighting Ford was created by a pair of tough Chevrolet executives. On Feb. 6, 1968, former Chevrolet General Manager Semon E. “Bunkie” Knudsen, angry because not he, but Ed Cole, had been named General Motors president, jumped ship from GM and surfaced as president of Ford Motor Company. Bunkie can be called the Father of the Camaro in much the same way Lee lacocca is referred to as the Father of the Mustang, so this corporate ship-jumping was front-page news. Think of it as the Detroit equivalent of Enzo Ferrari going…

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MotorTrend (Digital) - 1 Issue, July 1993

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