I bought my 1970 Mach 1 When I came home from Vietnam in 1973. I still own it today. In a 1988 I bought a boss 302 and did a ground of frustration on it. But I got Parkinson’s from Vietnam due to agent orange so I had to sell the car because it had no power steering it was really hard to drive. But I still have my 70 Mach one that has power steering and runs like a Swiss watch. From 3 feet away it looks like a brand new car original and unrestored. It’s a 351 Cleveland four-speed with shaker scope louvers and spoilers and magnum 500 wheels. This September I will have had the car 49 years. I graduated from high school in 1970 it’s kind of special.
What a great story! I was 10 years old in 1970. My friend's brother had a Red Mach 1with every bell and whistle. 351 shaker. Black louvers, spoiler magnum rims and 4 speed. 3.91 gears out back. What a car! He took us everywhere in that Mustang. Thanks for the memories. Shawn.
That’s awesome sir I feel like I’m in the same but opposite situation I’m a 68w and I feel like I have to rush to get the thing I want to get done and accomplished. I’m glad you made it back from Vietnam.
My brother inlaw did the same. Came home from Vietnam bought a 1970 orange Mach 1 with a 351.4 spd. I was 10 and fell in love with mustangs. Only ford's I like, lol I've owned a 1966 coupe,67 coupe and 67 fastback. Now at 64 own a 1970 grande coupe. Great story and video. Sorry he passed away
Thank you! That poor cat is still sitting in the storage unit we took it to and hasn't been touched. The daughter said she'll never sell it. It's deteriorating away. If you watch any of my other videos, you'll see that I'm pretty much Ford, Mercury, and Lincoln myself.
When I was a 10 year old kid my neighbor bought a 1967 fastback mustang and took a few of us little kids for a ride in that car I will never forget that ride because he never returned from Vietnam and the car sat in his parent’s garage, I never seen it driven again and we moved away from there while I was in junior high. I still remember that car like it was yesterday, growing up in the 60’s-70’s working at Detroit Dragway for a few years was a kids dream job.
Beautiful 70!😎👍🖤⭐️🕊🦋🕊🙏✌️🎉🇺🇸 Thanks for sharing guys I’m sure Leon was a great guy and I know he had great taste! I will be sure to take good care of this sweet Stang for him.
Thanks for this story about this car, which I have always known about these, but just now focused on them. Thank you for your Fathers Service from a USAF Vet Nam Era Vet, from farm lands of ILLinois. My condolences to you for your loss. Sounds like he was a good person and Father.
That’s an awesome car. I bought one in ‘78. Unfortunately my wife totaled it a few years later. She was ok but the car, which ended up under an eighteen wheeler, looked like a Datsun with three of the four wheels broken off. I really miss that car.
We have a living trust, but it has to be updated due to life changes and additions of stuff. It's been about 8 years since our first one. Great advice for everyone out there. It will save you $ and frustrations. What a beautiful Boss 302. We have a 2013 Shelby GT500, my wife's birth year car, a 1970 Chevy 454 T-top Corvette and a 2008 Ducati D16RR (a Moto GP bike with turn signals and headlights.
Thanks! I bet the white interior looks awesome. This car is still sitting at the place we moved it to, and that's where it will probably sit and rot, sadly. Those kids won't sell it and will never do anything with it.
The '69 and '70 Bosses (302 and 429) are great muscle cars. From what I could tell from the walk-around, it looks to be 100% original (and very well maintained). Price tag on this one could be anywhere between $75K to $100K. The only real drawback I see it no AC, But if it were mine, there's no way I'd sell it
Boss 302 never came with air-conditioning. I just sold mine three years ago. I did a ground up restoration on it. It was grabber green I sure miss that car. But my best friend bought it so I still get to see it. Seems to be missing smog equipment And the air cleaner Snorkel along with the flapper valve on the driver side of the Air cleaner.
Nice stang. Back in 1982 I could have bought a 1970 Mach 1 . It was yellow with black stripes. It was fully loaded with options. It had the 351 Cleveland with a factory 4 speed with the console. It had the decor interior with wood grain trim. The price was $1800.00 dollars back then. I didn't buy it because strangely it was a 2 barrel carburetor from the factory. Strange combination.
A school mate of mine bought a brand new Boss exactly like that one. Unfortunately he was an idiot and destroyed it. Many years later my wife has at one time owned one of each of those two Honda motorcycles. A 250 Rebel was her first bike. She just sold the Shadow as we have retired from riding. That car really brings back memories for me.
Nothing more special than a Vietnam mustang. Especially since the guy had a daughter that understands its value , and I dont mean money. The monetary value of this thing pales in comparison to the value it has to a child of a vet who came home from that shitty war and found some happiness in a mustang like they were seeing in the magazines while over seas. We had a few such cars in my area which is a small town whos owners werent so lucky and they just sat as memorials of sorts.... They became part of the landscape , no one tried to buy them , no one touched them... They just sat there until the parents passed on.
Wow man that was deep! Thank you for the great comment. Sometimes I get some horrible comments on my videos but the ones like this makes up for those. Thank you!
in Missouri and lot of states will allow a “TOD” transfer on death , A persons name is put on the title in addition to the owners name, when the owner passes away, the ownership of the vehicle will instantly transfer to that person, assuming the vehicle is paid off, there is no charge for that if it is done when the vehicle is titled, in Missouri in can be done at a later point but you will have to pay the title fee $35 in Missouri to re-print the title, with a TOD The vehicle will not have to go through probate,
Very special and rare car. Around 7000 made in 70. Ford and Parnelli Jones swept the scca stock production class 2 yrs in a row 69 and 70 with that high revving little beast. Ford had to sell so many in he show rooms for it to qualify as scca production class. So you were buying a street legal race car.
You can get a 30 CC accelerator pump made for the E85 carbs (they’re blue) and it won’t rot with the new gas. Also, you can take the front bowl off the carb the get to the accelerator pump without removing the whole enchilada.
7500rpm let’s go, tighten those dam screws up, take it out for a test drive. Two years that gas is flat, burn it all out or drain the tank before running her hard or then freshener up all new gas. I’d personally inspect the bowls at some point for crusty stuff…. Engine sounds awesome!
You need a will and a trust. The will is your directives (who gets what) and the trust places assets into the legal position of named heirs, avoiding probate.
@@tonyscarcare5657 I make the above comment as I am actually going through a probate right now and will possibly end up inheriting a 70B302 as well. It's been an educational experience. Not sure that I want to keep it as I have other cars of interest and would need to drop one to make space for it. I actually prefer the New Boss 302, but that's just me.
The HD sprint may have some value to a collector even though it is not a true Harley. If I remember correctly HD imported this one from italy to compete with the superlight beginner commuter bikes as all of the real HDs were heavy bikes street, road and touring bikes.
The early Mustangs had a fatal flaw; that being the location of the gas tank. Did Ford ever correct this? As I remember, it was an easy and inexpensive fix. Nothing like the sound of a big block in the morning.
@@tonyscarcare5657 "On Mustangs built from 1964 thru 1970, the gas tank was simply dropped into a hole in the trunk. If the tank ruptured in a rear end collision, there is no solid barrier, just a flimsy seat back, between the the passengers and gasoline." Ford decided to keep this a secret instead of recalling the cars. Many people were incinerated or maned for life. Ford has and continues to make settlements to victims and their families. A $75.00 fix would have solved this deadly problem. People that restore old Mustangs, and they continue to do so, should be aware of this potential deadly problem.
@@TeamTrumpUSA I personally don't know of anyone correcting the problem. It was the Pinto that I grew up hearing about them blowing up in rear end crashes but people are still driving those as well.
@@hoedemakerbart Fake News CBS, aired Mustang: A Classic Danger on May 17, 1999. Ford has paid out billions of dollars because of the Mustang, and the Pinto. What's so ironic, Ford knew a rear end collision was deadly and continues to deny any problem exists. The fix is inexpensive, and people should know since the Mustang is so collectable. The Pinto is not collectable and is best forgotten in my opinion. I'm a Lincoln-Mercury man myself but the last real Town Car rolled off the assembly line in 1997. What followed are cheap imitations. I know because I have one.
Its a shame they didn't put some fresh fuel in this poor car and clean the carb properly. I hope this car goes to auction or someone that apreciates it and it doesn't fall into the hands of hacks. These guys dont seem to swifth with this kind of muscle machinery.
We did what we had to do to get it out of there, and it's never been touched since. Still sitting in the storage unit we took it to. The daughter won't sell it. Dean, the one driving it up in the trailer, knows plenty. He still has the 69 Mustang he ordered brand new. There was a problem with the clutch!
Ethanol causes problems when vehicles aren't driven, I've always had problems with Fords.. my chevy sat for 20 years.. started right up and on the road within 20 minutes
I bought my 1970 Mach 1 When I came home from Vietnam in 1973. I still own it today. In a 1988 I bought a boss 302 and did a ground of frustration on it. But I got Parkinson’s from Vietnam due to agent orange so I had to sell the car because it had no power steering it was really hard to drive. But I still have my 70 Mach one that has power steering and runs like a Swiss watch. From 3 feet away it looks like a brand new car original and unrestored. It’s a 351 Cleveland four-speed with shaker scope louvers and spoilers and magnum 500 wheels. This September I will have had the car 49 years. I graduated from high school in 1970 it’s kind of special.
Wow thanks for sharing your story and thank you for your service. I'm sorry your having these problems.
What a great story! I was 10 years old in 1970. My friend's brother had a Red Mach 1with every bell and whistle. 351 shaker. Black louvers, spoiler magnum rims and 4 speed. 3.91 gears out back. What a car! He took us everywhere in that Mustang. Thanks for the memories. Shawn.
That’s awesome thanks for sharing. If there’s any video on u tube or instagram let me know I would love to see it thanks.
@@steviedee71
I'm on Instagram I'll see if I can throw something up later on.
That’s awesome sir I feel like I’m in the same but opposite situation I’m a 68w and I feel like I have to rush to get the thing I want to get done and accomplished. I’m glad you made it back from Vietnam.
What a beautiful car. Lucky kids! 👍🏻
Thank you! I agree.
My brother inlaw did the same. Came home from Vietnam bought a 1970 orange Mach 1 with a 351.4 spd. I was 10 and fell in love with mustangs. Only ford's I like, lol I've owned a 1966 coupe,67 coupe and 67 fastback. Now at 64 own a 1970 grande coupe. Great story and video. Sorry he passed away
Thank you! That poor cat is still sitting in the storage unit we took it to and hasn't been touched. The daughter said she'll never sell it. It's deteriorating away. If you watch any of my other videos, you'll see that I'm pretty much Ford, Mercury, and Lincoln myself.
What a car! Stephanie seems like such a sweet human being. How nice of you to capture this.
Yeah she still really struggles with losing her dad.
Such a beautiful example of Muscle Car History!!!
Thank you! I agree.
When I was a 10 year old kid my neighbor bought a 1967 fastback mustang and took a few of us little kids for a ride in that car I will never forget that ride because he never returned from Vietnam and the car sat in his parent’s garage, I never seen it driven again and we moved away from there while I was in junior high.
I still remember that car like it was yesterday, growing up in the 60’s-70’s working at Detroit Dragway for a few years was a kids dream job.
Great story.......thank you for sharing.
Beautiful 70!😎👍🖤⭐️🕊🦋🕊🙏✌️🎉🇺🇸 Thanks for sharing guys I’m sure Leon was a great guy and I know he had great taste! I will be sure to take good care of this sweet Stang for him.
You're welcome! Thank you very much!
Thanks for this story about this car, which I have always known about these, but just now focused on them. Thank you for your Fathers Service from a USAF Vet Nam Era Vet, from farm lands of ILLinois. My condolences to you for your loss. Sounds like he was a good person and Father.
Thank you very much. Yes he was one of a kind. And thank you for your service as well!
One of my cousins got a 71 Boss 302 for his 18th birthday. Still has it to this day.
😳 dang! One lucky young man!
@@tonyscarcare5657 yeah I wasn’t so lucky. His parents were loaded.
@@MrTomengle I'd say so!
I'm glad the mustangs staying in the family It is a beautiful car and it's actually my dream car. I have a 68 coupe that I restored
Thanks for watching!
That’s an awesome car. I bought one in ‘78. Unfortunately my wife totaled it a few years later. She was ok but the car, which ended up under an eighteen wheeler, looked like a Datsun with three of the four wheels broken off. I really miss that car.
Dang, that sounds like it could have been way worse.
Still got the wife though ?
Cool. I have a 70 sportsroof to with the 351 Cleveland. That engine was a testbed for the Cleveland 😉
That is a beautiful piece of machinery!! Great Job! :)
Thank you!
❤ that car.
Hi Tony, that Mustang is beautiful!
Thank you!
What a car!!!!
Yep, and it's still sitting in the storage unit we put it in! 😭
cool boss , nice family
Thank you!
We have a living trust, but it has to be updated due to life changes and additions of stuff. It's been about 8 years since our first one. Great advice for everyone out there. It will save you $ and frustrations. What a beautiful Boss 302. We have a 2013 Shelby GT500, my wife's birth year car, a 1970 Chevy 454 T-top Corvette and a 2008 Ducati D16RR (a Moto GP bike with turn signals and headlights.
Awesome! Thank you very much for watching and commenting.
she is a gem
It sure needs some attention after sitting in there for over two years.
Beautiful car, I’m working on a red 1970 BOSS 302 with a white deluxe interior. Shaker hood with spoilers and window slats. 👍🏻
Thanks! I bet the white interior looks awesome. This car is still sitting at the place we moved it to, and that's where it will probably sit and rot, sadly. Those kids won't sell it and will never do anything with it.
@@tonyscarcare5657 it will when I get it installed
The '69 and '70 Bosses (302 and 429) are great muscle cars. From what I could tell from the walk-around, it looks to be 100% original (and very well maintained). Price tag on this one could be anywhere between $75K to $100K. The only real drawback I see it no AC, But if it were mine, there's no way I'd sell it
I told them to make sure it's insured for no less than $75k.
@@tonyscarcare5657 . . . good deal. When Leon bought his, the MSRP was around $3700. Because he took care of it, the investment was sound.
@@guitarxy1948 yep its a shame he didn't get to enjoy it after he finally got to restore it.
Boss 302 never came with air-conditioning. I just sold mine three years ago. I did a ground up restoration on it. It was grabber green I sure miss that car. But my best friend bought it so I still get to see it. Seems to be missing smog equipment And the air cleaner Snorkel along with the flapper valve on the driver side of the Air cleaner.
Nice stang. Back in 1982 I could have bought a 1970 Mach 1 . It was yellow with black stripes. It was fully loaded with options. It had the 351 Cleveland with a factory 4 speed with the console. It had the decor interior with wood grain trim. The price was $1800.00 dollars back then. I didn't buy it because strangely it was a 2 barrel carburetor from the factory. Strange combination.
Yeah I definitely wouldn't have expected that at all!
The styling was so much better back
It sure was!
A school mate of mine bought a brand new Boss exactly like that one. Unfortunately he was an idiot and destroyed it. Many years later my wife has at one time owned one of each of those two Honda motorcycles. A 250 Rebel was her first bike. She just sold the Shadow as we have retired from riding. That car really brings back memories for me.
Thank you for commenting. That older Honda did sell not long after I did the video. I think the Shadow for sure is still sitting out there.
Nothing more special than a Vietnam mustang. Especially since the guy had a daughter that understands its value , and I dont mean money. The monetary value of this thing pales in comparison to the value it has to a child of a vet who came home from that shitty war and found some happiness in a mustang like they were seeing in the magazines while over seas.
We had a few such cars in my area which is a small town whos owners werent so lucky and they just sat as memorials of sorts.... They became part of the landscape , no one tried to buy them , no one touched them... They just sat there until the parents passed on.
Wow man that was deep! Thank you for the great comment. Sometimes I get some horrible comments on my videos but the ones like this makes up for those. Thank you!
in Missouri and lot of states will allow a “TOD” transfer on death , A persons name is put on the title in addition to the owners name, when the owner passes away, the ownership of the vehicle will instantly transfer to that person, assuming the vehicle is paid off, there is no charge for that if it is done when the vehicle is titled, in Missouri in can be done at a later point but you will have to pay the title fee $35 in Missouri to re-print the title, with a TOD The vehicle will not have to go through probate,
You can do that here in Illinois as well, but most people don't plan for death.
I owned one exactly like yours except the orig color was grabber yellow n the guy painted it Competition orange.
This one is still sitting right where we put it. It's a shame.
Really a nice car! I'm enjoying your channel too.
Thank you very much!
Nice!
SO, it stayed in the family! GREAT! At least it's in the right hands and out of the wrong ones! 🤣
But it's still sitting in the same storage unit it was taken to and never touched since.
Very special and rare car. Around 7000 made in 70. Ford and Parnelli Jones swept the scca stock production class 2 yrs in a row 69 and 70 with that high revving little beast. Ford had to sell so many in he show rooms for it to qualify as scca production class. So you were buying a street legal race car.
Awesome to learn more about it. Thank you very much!
Dying is bad, but dying and leaving this behind makes it worse.
It was very unexpected.
Just go on eBay and Look up the bikes to get a better idea what they are worth.
Nice looking mustang. Great video
Thank you. There are no Harley Davidsons like that on Ebay. However I've found some elsewhere. It's not worth a lot appeantly.
Their cheaper than 500 through credit union. You can also have help department found in municipal courts
You can get a 30 CC accelerator pump made for the E85 carbs (they’re blue) and it won’t rot with the new gas. Also, you can take the front bowl off the carb the get to the accelerator pump without removing the whole enchilada.
7500rpm let’s go, tighten those dam screws up, take it out for a test drive. Two years that gas is flat, burn it all out or drain the tank before running her hard or then freshener up all new gas. I’d personally inspect the bowls at some point for crusty stuff…. Engine sounds awesome!
You need a will and a trust. The will is your directives (who gets what) and the trust places assets into the legal position of named heirs, avoiding probate.
I'm finding that out. Thank you!
@@tonyscarcare5657 I make the above comment as I am actually going through a probate right now and will possibly end up inheriting a 70B302 as well. It's been an educational experience. Not sure that I want to keep it as I have other cars of interest and would need to drop one to make space for it. I actually prefer the New Boss 302, but that's just me.
Nice boss 302 some reason these cars always look naked to me without the shaker hood lol.
That poor car is still just sitting in storage. 😥
What size were the rear tires, they look tough?
I'm sorry, man. I really don't have any idea and haven't seen it since that day.
The HD sprint may have some value to a collector even though it is not a true Harley. If I remember correctly HD imported this one from italy to compete with the superlight beginner commuter bikes as all of the real HDs were heavy bikes street, road and touring bikes.
It sold right after I posted this video.
@@tonyscarcare5657 How much?
@matrox they told me, but honestly, I don't remember. I do remember it wasn't as much as I thought it would bring.
@@tonyscarcare5657 Over $40k?
@@matrox ummmmm........no!
Just pull front bowl off
Don't take the carb off intake
Little late for that.
7,500 recline on the tach!
just take the bowl off and put the new accelerator pump on you don't need to remove the carb to replace it .
It worked just fine and no more gas poured everywhere.
Are they fighting over it?
No, they are not fighting over it at all. The sad part is that it will sit and deteriorate.
The early Mustangs had a fatal flaw; that being the location of the gas tank. Did Ford ever correct this? As I remember, it was an easy and inexpensive fix.
Nothing like the sound of a big block in the morning.
I had never heard about that.
@@tonyscarcare5657 "On Mustangs built from 1964 thru 1970, the gas tank was simply dropped into a hole in the trunk. If the tank ruptured in a rear end collision, there is no solid barrier, just a flimsy seat back, between the the passengers and gasoline."
Ford decided to keep this a secret instead of recalling the cars. Many people were incinerated or maned for life. Ford has and continues to make settlements to victims and their families. A $75.00 fix would have solved this deadly problem.
People that restore old Mustangs, and they continue to do so, should be aware of this potential deadly problem.
@@TeamTrumpUSA I personally don't know of anyone correcting the problem. It was the Pinto that I grew up hearing about them blowing up in rear end crashes but people are still driving those as well.
It's just a problem in a crash 😂
@@hoedemakerbart Fake News CBS, aired Mustang: A Classic Danger on May 17, 1999.
Ford has paid out billions of dollars because of the Mustang, and the Pinto. What's so ironic, Ford knew a rear end collision was deadly and continues to deny any problem exists.
The fix is inexpensive,
and people should know since the Mustang is so collectable. The Pinto is not collectable and is best forgotten in my opinion.
I'm a Lincoln-Mercury man myself but the last real Town Car rolled off the assembly line in 1997. What followed are cheap imitations. I know because I have one.
Better stick to beans and corn
It went to his kid,,, so
Its a shame they didn't put some fresh fuel in this poor car and clean the carb properly. I hope this car goes to auction or someone that apreciates it and it doesn't fall into the hands of hacks. These guys dont seem to swifth with this kind of muscle machinery.
We did what we had to do to get it out of there, and it's never been touched since. Still sitting in the storage unit we took it to. The daughter won't sell it. Dean, the one driving it up in the trailer, knows plenty. He still has the 69 Mustang he ordered brand new. There was a problem with the clutch!
Why didnt brother buy it off the daughter 😢
She is the executor, and she will not sell it.
I've had some cool cars,,,your supposed to own them,,not them own you,,
everything yall drive is red !
That family........yes! Even their tractors!
Ethanol causes problems when vehicles aren't driven, I've always had problems with Fords.. my chevy sat for 20 years.. started right up and on the road within 20 minutes
He was a farmer and felt it important to buy ethanol! 🙄
I cant watch this
And why is that?