Question: If you had the ability to, would you take a brand-new 1969 or 1970 Mustang? We’re talking fresh sheetmetal, brand-new engine, zero miles on the clock, new. And we don’t mean grafting a nose and tail onto a ten-year-old car, either. We mean fresher than the produce at the grocery store fresh. Well, if you’ve got the coin, it looks like a company called Classic Recreations can hook you up with a dressed Boss 302, Mach 1 or Boss 429. Either you can provide a 1969-1970 Mustang body, or Classic Recreations can provide you with a brand-new, licensed by Ford body and from there, you can go for broke. The engines are late-model crate motors and range from the 5.0L Coyote to a 670 horsepower “Boss 9” crate engine. Tremec and Ford automatics are available, as are the full stock range of colors, the proper badging and stripes, upgraded suspensions, cooling and chassis, and so on and so forth.
Care to know how much getting into one of these will set you back? A basic Mach 1 setup, with the 5.0L Coyote mill and your choice of transission, will ding your wallet for an “investment” of $169,000, and the price goes up from there. The Boss 9 engine sets you back $25,000, you can minitub the car for $5500, you can opt for a Pro Touring Track Upgrade Package for $25,000, and you can even get your car in right-hand drive for $12,500. Comparison shopping for a 1970 Mach 1 puts the older car somewhere between $35,000 and $50,000 for a nice example that still might need some work down the road, so a question: which would you rather have, the old iron or the fresh new iron? We will get a chance to see one in the flesh at the SEMA show later this year for ourselves!
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$169K? Old iron still rules!
This vendor is clearly catering to the ultra rich, marginal car crowd at those prices. Can you say Middle East?