Saturday 21st November 1970

The rarest of Ford Mustangs, the Boss 351, debuted at the Detroit Auto Show in Michigan. The car, with eye-catching looks aided by a 60-degree sloping fastback, was powered by a fierce 5.4 litre, 330-bhp, 8-cylinder engine built on Ford’s new ‘Cleveland’ block. The Boss 351 was manufactured for just a single production year, 1971, and only 1,806 units were made, compared with the 500,000 Mustangs manufactured and sold by Ford in 1965 alone.