View Single Post
  #1  
Old 11-21-2019, 07:09 PM
69hurstSC 69hurstSC is online now
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 1,589
Thanks: 167
Thanked 816 Times in 178 Posts
Default KK1201 - The 1st Boss 429 Prototype

After continued research, documentation has concluded that my new Mustang (9F02R100031) is KK1201. The VIN, door tag, buck tag, hidden fender VIN, block and transmission all match historic paperwork noting this car on Kar-Kraft documentation. For now, it's research, research and more research.

Ed Meyer, Bob Perkins, Joe Spinelli and a cast of thousands have been helping with figuring out the cars history. I've also secured the Eminger reports and the Marti Report, and Kevin is going through his documentation to see if he has anything on the car. We have educated guesses as to what the cars purpose at KK was for (possibly 15x7 tire testing) but want to substantiate that with documentation. I'm also backtracking ownership history of the car (currently stuck in 1994). The car retains its numbers matching 428 CJ engine and transmission.

Some anomalies include blanks on the door tag and the warranty portion still attached. It's also likely the 1st 69 CJ 4-spd, and I've yet to find a car ordered earlier than this one (May 23rd, 1968). The order received date predates the Introductory Show Units (June 4, 1968) by 11 days. The car was completed on June 20th, 1968 and was at the Dearborn Test Track just a few days later (June 22nd). Bunkie Knudsen approved the B9 program on June 20th. There's also a significant gap in registered CJ's after my CUN (100031) with the next being 102205. What does all of this mean is anyone's guess, for now.

The car was also sent to Ford Design Studio fabricator Paul Shedlik for usage of creating the mold for Ohio George Montgomery's 1969 Gasser.

It's also looking likely the car was used for SS/E testing by FoMoCo.

I'm looking forward to finding out more about this historically significant car and gathering info about the very early beginnings of the 69 CJs. To date it's the only Boss 429 prototype to surface.

If you have any paperwork pertaining to the 7 original R code B9 prototypes (plus the no Number car) I'd love to hear from you.














Last edited by 69hurstSC; 11-21-2019 at 07:15 PM.
Reply With Quote
The Following 10 Users Say Thank You to 69hurstSC For This Useful Post:
72heavychevy (12-04-2019), Bill Pritchard (11-24-2019), dykstra (11-29-2019), John (11-22-2019), PeteLeathersac (11-23-2019), ScottG (11-22-2019), scuncio (11-24-2019), Tenney (11-29-2019), YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY (11-22-2019), ZiggyL78 (11-28-2019)
Click here to view all the pictures posted in this thread...