Mr Gasket clear bodied Mustang

[Paul B. Canney]

Just trying to save it utilizing a Malco Gasser for the guts. Now looking for a Boss 429 because the Malco 427 is incorrect. 

I'd really like to know which came first, the Malco or Mr Gasket because it's obvious they fed one another

[41chevy]

here is the whole story from the people involved. Paul

     

JUNEAU, WI – One of the wildest Ford drag cars of the muscle car era was this 1969 Mustang-bodied, twin-turbocharged Boss 429 AA/GS, aka the “Mr. Gasket Gasser.”
Early in 1968, Ford asked racer George Montgomery, known as “Ohio George,” to update his highly successful ’67 Mustang Malco Gasser with a hot, new Mach 1 body. So Ford Special Vehicles gave George approval to use a prototype Mach 1 to make a mold. He recalls the name Paul Sedlick, who did all the body shop work in a suburb of Detroit. So Malco before Mr Gasket but chassis is based on Malco design

The job took three weeks, and George remembers the Mach 1 prototype came back with traces of fiberglass still on the corners of the very expensive bodywork. Bob Perkins, who owns the Mr. Gasket Gasser today, says the fiberglass body actually has Ford date codes and Ford engineering numbers. The body is two-piece: The front end is one piece, and the second piece is from the windshield back. The doors open, and the car even has door jambs.

In early 1968, Boss 429 engine parts were not quite available.The car initially debuted with a blown Cammer because the 429 was not immediatly available, but by 1971 had switched to the turbo Boss 429.

So, Ohio George ran a 427 Cammer for starters. He had been running this engine with huge success in his 1933 Willys and his 1967 Mustang fastback.  At first the Boss 429 was supercharged with a Roots 6-71 blower. This combination proved very successful.

As you might expect, Ohio George wanted to go faster and believed the Boss 429 had more potential than the Cammer. The bottom end was much stronger in the Boss 429 compared to the Cammer, so he went looking for more power.

Ford assigned engineer Danny Jones to help George design his drag car. Jones had worked on Ford’s Indy Car program and, specifically, their famous and world-beating four-cam Indy V8. Jones applied technology from the Indy Car program to a second Boss 429 Gasser build to create the high-tech car seen here.

For this Boss 429 build, Danny Jones suggested a turbocharger, but not just one. He suggested two. Turbochargers have inherent advantages over superchargers. However, there was much more to this high-technology build than simply adding on a pair of turbochargers.

Bob Perkins says the twin-turbo Boss 429 was rarely beat on the drag strip due to the engine’s incredible mid-range torque. George said that at the end of the quarter-mile, the twin-turbo Boss Nine “just kept pulling.”

Part of this enigma is wrapped up in the mystery of turbochargers. A turbo anything in a big-block V-8 on the dragstrip back in 1971 was way ahead of its time – let alone a twin-turbo Boss 429 with an exotic valve train and hemispherical combustion chambers. Plus, sanctioning bodies did not know how to police turbochargers at that time.

George’s twin-turbo Boss 429 was just superior, technologically speaking, compared to any of the supercharged V-8s of that era. Where the other Gassers could not catch up to some of the fastest cars, this Boss 429 twin-turbo could – and did, time after time.

After winning the 1973 and 1974 Gator Nationals, George retired the “Mr. Gasket Gasser” and built a turbocharged 1974 Ford Pinto for debut at the 1976 Summer Nationals in Englishtown, NJ. He retired from drag racing in 1985 at the age of 53. Today, George operates “George’s Speed Shop” with his son, Gregg, in Dayton, Ohio.

FORD PERFORMANCE , COURTESY JERRY HEASLEY

[Paul B. Canney]

This is fabulous ! Thanks !

[kabdriver]

Cool history lesson 41! Interesting!

Paul, that body is COOOOL man! That’s going to make for a killer build! I’ll be watching! 😍

[Dennis M]

Nice start Paul.