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Boss 429s have always been near-exotic, and were purchased by people who knew what they were. Consequently, it's not real unusual to find an interesting story lurking somewhere below the surface, but a pretty interesting one surrounds Jan Byrd and his Grabber Green '70. As a 16 year old in 1970, Jan actually sat in this very car while it was on the showroom of Southern Ford in Murphysboro, Illinois. His parents were buying a '70 LTD, but Jan was all about the big-inch Boss. Jan recalls his mother saying to him, "if I was rich, I'd buy you this car." Of course she wasn't rich, and Jan didn't get the Boss-at least not then; fast forward to the early 1980s when Jan worked as a heavy equipment operator and drove a '66 GT350H. A co-worker told him a rumor he'd heard about a green Boss 429 in a small northern Illinois town. Evidently the car had been parked in a garage for years, initially due to a warranty dispute with Ford. Jan eventually tracked the car down in the mid-'80s, and came to realize it was the very View Related Article
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