1970 BOSS 302 TRANS-AM WIN 50th Anniversary

It’s now been 50 years since Parnelli Jones piloted his 1970 Boss 302 Trans-Am race car to the 1970 Trans-Am season series championship for Ford Motor Company. To mark this historic victory, we’re retracing the 1970 Trans-Am season race-by-race through the following excerpt from the hardcover book, Boss Mustang: 50 Years (1st Edition – Motorbooks, 2019). It is reprinted here with permission from author Donald Farr. For the whole story, we invite you to read the entire chapter on the Trans-Am Championship Mission in the book, which includes details on the new-for-1970 Competition, Rules Changes and Testing before the “End of Everything” came for corporate involvement in motorsports competition on November 20, 1970… read more >