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family ( brothers Jason
and Scott and their father,
Gerald), Baer has a whole
new appreciation for Black
Jade Boss ’9s. “There was
absolutely zero rust on this
car and everything was
there,” Baer says. “It had
been sitting...the guy drove
it real hard for a couple
years and then parked it. It
has about 60,000 miles.”While 60,000 miles
doesn’t sound like much,
that number of odometer
turns is two lifetimes in
the Boss ’9 world. Just ask
Jason Billups, who hasworked on a lot of hi-po
Mustangs, including a
number of Boss 429s. “I
believe it’s probably the
highest-mileage Boss ’9 I
have ever touched, which
is shocking,” Billups says.
“Typically, they had a lot of
issues with that big engine
and it being a hemi, and they
weren’t great when it came
to being reliable. Usually
when you work on a Boss ’9,QThe before and after looks of this
Black Jade Boss 429’s interior.