Bosskraft wins Gold for their trailer concours Boss 302 at the NSW State Concours, Australia
Here, we have a gorgeous yellow '70 Boss 302 that we've literally just completed. The car has 0 miles on a complete nut and bolt rotisserie restoration in our shop. It was a very original Boss 302 prior to resto, and needed very little, parts wise, to bring it to a complete concours status. It had magnum 500 wheels when we bought it, but we tracked down a set of the factory, now very hard to find, 15" x 7" steel Boss rims, hub cap and trim rings and also spent a few years finding genuine original 'sized' Polyglas tyres/tires (catering to our American 'websiters'!) for it, rather than repop's.
This Boss 302 had traveled only 61k original miles when we bought it, the engine was still original, standard bore, had never been rebuilt and was very tired. It's very unusual to find a Boss 302 with the original engine, as the original pistons had a habit of 'letting fly' out the side of the block, after cracking a piston skirt.
During the restoration process, we rebuilt every mechanical item on this car, from the steering box to the third member, trans & engine, with no expense spared on building it right. The engine was then installed in another driver Boss 302 of ours to 'run it in', before being removed, concours detailed and thrown into this car, so that the car would appear completely brand new, clean and have no need to be driven until shown/concours'd. Naturally, being a concours car, the under carriage is highly detailed and is extremely correct with factory overspray, and paint markings reproduced as found or noted on low mileage original Boss 302's of a similar build time and factory.
We were stoked with the engine rebuild and sound. For a Boss with an original style exhaust system, it sounds pretty tough! Nice lumpy cam trying desperately to get through that original type exhaust, but it's threatening, that's for sure. Starts and idles perfectly, as depicted in the below video of the car idling cold.
It's a well optioned Boss, too. The Deluxe 'Marti' report on hand, suggests that it was factory fitted with the front & rear spoilers, trim rings and hub caps, 3.50:1 traction lok 9" 31 spline rear end with a wide ratio transmission (the best combo for that rear end), power steering, AM radio (which works a treat..!), decor group (of which this car still retains its original headliner, seat & door trims and they're beautiful..!) and tachometer. The factory rimblow steering wheel has been sent out and restored to new condition, as have the dash pods, which were 'vacuum metalised', as original. We've presented this Boss 302 as close to a brand new car as we can create, in 2012.
This is a Boss 302, for someone who is looking for the best. A gold standard Boss that they can show, concours, drive, or a combination of all. Interestingly, most of this cars history is known from new and it has been in Australia for about 10 years now.
Check out the video below of the Boss running and contact Sean for more details or to check this Boss 302 out in person. bosskraft@hotmail.com
This Boss 302 had traveled only 61k original miles when we bought it, the engine was still original, standard bore, had never been rebuilt and was very tired. It's very unusual to find a Boss 302 with the original engine, as the original pistons had a habit of 'letting fly' out the side of the block, after cracking a piston skirt.
During the restoration process, we rebuilt every mechanical item on this car, from the steering box to the third member, trans & engine, with no expense spared on building it right. The engine was then installed in another driver Boss 302 of ours to 'run it in', before being removed, concours detailed and thrown into this car, so that the car would appear completely brand new, clean and have no need to be driven until shown/concours'd. Naturally, being a concours car, the under carriage is highly detailed and is extremely correct with factory overspray, and paint markings reproduced as found or noted on low mileage original Boss 302's of a similar build time and factory.
We were stoked with the engine rebuild and sound. For a Boss with an original style exhaust system, it sounds pretty tough! Nice lumpy cam trying desperately to get through that original type exhaust, but it's threatening, that's for sure. Starts and idles perfectly, as depicted in the below video of the car idling cold.
It's a well optioned Boss, too. The Deluxe 'Marti' report on hand, suggests that it was factory fitted with the front & rear spoilers, trim rings and hub caps, 3.50:1 traction lok 9" 31 spline rear end with a wide ratio transmission (the best combo for that rear end), power steering, AM radio (which works a treat..!), decor group (of which this car still retains its original headliner, seat & door trims and they're beautiful..!) and tachometer. The factory rimblow steering wheel has been sent out and restored to new condition, as have the dash pods, which were 'vacuum metalised', as original. We've presented this Boss 302 as close to a brand new car as we can create, in 2012.
This is a Boss 302, for someone who is looking for the best. A gold standard Boss that they can show, concours, drive, or a combination of all. Interestingly, most of this cars history is known from new and it has been in Australia for about 10 years now.
Check out the video below of the Boss running and contact Sean for more details or to check this Boss 302 out in person. bosskraft@hotmail.com