Boss 429 shock tower assemblies

That would be cool, especially if they make the special shorter control arms as well.

I got the exact same answer on early 68 qtr panels with the indented marker light (or was that 67? whichever one had the indent...) over THREE years ago, so don't hold your breath. We ended up cutting the indented section from another qtr panel and grafting it in.
These shock towers can still be found, spring and fall Columbus Ford swap is a good resource. You may have to buy a whole parts car for this. THere are a couple on Ebay now that are rusted project cars. That would still be an expensive way to solve the problem though...maybe some others will have better suggestions for you.

Oh, sorry, not 429 parts cars...was thnking of the big block shock towers, but you want the ones that are set back on 429 cars. Yea, that will be hard.

IIRC, the boss 9 towers are really only modified earlier fairlane towers grafted onto the mustang chassis. do some research on them and you can probably find out exactly which towers they used. i can tell you for certain they were not special stampings or modified stock mustang towers, but were actually modified production car pieces (other than mustang). i'm not not aware if the UCA's are special stampings or modified production mustang pieces though.

it would be cool to build a clone of the "Shop Tips" Boss '9 or the Tasca Super Boss or a combination of the 2......basically a plain white wrapper like the Shop Tips car with the all aluminum 494 can am boss motor (built up with Kasse parts ) and four link (or was it a ladder bar?) suspension from the Super Boss.....now that would be one hell a stealth street missile..... show me your pink slips please........

I've been trying to find a credible source that identified what shock towers were used without success. I had heard back in the 80's that they were not Mustang shock towers, but I couldn't remember what kind they were.

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It makes sense to me that they might be Fairlane/Torino pieces. Not seen anything that says it but since the Boss 9s were originally supposed to go in those bodys, maybe. Then again I can be wrong.