Same here. I’m saving my left one for a Boss 302.
I had a buddy who bought a ‘69 Boss 302 when we were both in college. The next year we both went on active duty and I remember his comfort that he would be going home to his 302 after active duty.
Twenty-five years or more passed and I was at a Mustang show in a mall. There was my old high school and college buddy with that same car which he only drove until ‘74 and then restored and garaged it and took it out for shows and special usage. One owner, all original, life long hobby car. Telling the history he was ginning like that preverbial _________ eating dog.
My family moved to Pasco, Washington in 1978. I owned a ‘65 289 “K” motor mustang and brother had a ‘70 Mach 1 with a 351 Cleveland 4bbl. One day we were heading back home in his Mach 1 and were passed by a baby blue Mustang and we spotted the BOSS 429 logo on the front fenders!
We decided to follow the guy and low and behold he only lived around the block from us. So we pulled up beside to his house and starting talking to the guy. He had replaced the original Boss 429 (Elephant Motor) with a standard 429 from a T-Bird. And then he opened the garage and there on the engine stand was the original Boss motor!
He said that he took it out when he first got the car and would never put it back in.