I overlooked the Cleveland in my younger days but now that KZfaq especially my aussie Brothers down under show me the potential i love em!

11.85 is the best time in the quarter mile in my Mach 1, factory 351 4V, FMX 3:88 traclock! Norwalk!!

Love the Boss and Cobra Jets from 68-72 all power and best looking Mustangs

Nice job Evan, his Dad was a great guy. Talked to him alot when we were running Clevlands. Glad his Son is carrying on a tradition

Love the big bodied Mustangs. Had a 71 waay back in the day.

Evan this is a very well known car in RI where I’m from dean was a very big inspiration on my racing stick cars all my life I 1st saw the car in the early 80s at conn raceway and loved it ever since. I was lucky enough to know dean and I was honored when he caked me to go to his Christmas party’s at his shop witch was called Dean Co…

That was motivating! I've always been a bowtie guy, but have always been very fond of the 4v Clevelands...especially the Boss 351s. Respect! Wish Ford would have done more with this mill.

..man pedal shifted BOSS 351! That is royalty in cars! Thanks Evan!

YOU NAILED IT AGAIN EVAN! I CANT GET ENOUGH.

Dean is such a nice guy, and he and his family are excellent, honest mechanics! They work on my car frequently, and are the best! Great vid, their dad was a super guy.

Every time I hear a healthy Cleveland powered car, I miss running mine. They all have that same distinctive, nasty sound.

Nice great looking Mustang! Love that body style! I have the same one a 71 Mach 1 I raced mine in 1/8 miles it ran 7.90 on street tires!

My favorite of the Bosses and favorite bodystyle (71-73) too! Great that he's racing it in memory of his Dad! Awesome series of videos lately

Very cool! I use to have a 1968 Fairlane 500 Fast Back that I transplanted a Boss 351 Cleveland into. I love these old Fords and the 351 Cleveland!

Sweet! My favorite Mustang of all time! I had a 71 M code just out of high school and a 72 Q code later in my mid 20s. That Q Cleveland was a beast! I miss those old cars…..life happens!

Everytime the video is shot at the drag strip, I know it's going to be a good time.

Evan, thank you for featuring this car with a Cleveland. I love Cleveland’s. I’m building a 68 fastback with the same engine. Quench heads, bigger cam. It’s fascinating that he’s getting those kind of et’s with a low lift cam. It really shows how great those heads are! Hoping I’ll tap into the tens with mine next season. Frank.

Love seeing families brought together and sharing memories through drag racing. Always love a Cleveland and a great story behind every car.

This is Awesome......Denny Aldridge built my Cleveland for my 71

THAT VIDEO FOR SOME REASON WAS THE BEST I SAW WITH THE BIG DOG STOCK GUYS!! KEEP EM COMING!👊🏾

Drag racers are a different breed of people. Thats why I have always loved being at the track. I have always been there to help others. Others have always been there to help me. It’s a family affair for sure. What a great video.

Awesome car Ford power forever baby keep on pulling the knot out of them boties and the horns off them mopars l love it great video keep on doing it

VACUUM CARB AND STOCK INTAKE, AMAZING CAR! WOW!

I remember seeing this car many years in the Northeast, Always a Hard Runner, I Love the 71 Boss 351,s to me it's the Ultimate Performance Boss Mustang, 71 is my favorite year of the early generation Mustangs, i Love that style and the Boss 351 and the 429 SCJ Engines are #1 and #2 in my book for Fords Best from that era, The Baddest Small Block, and the Baddest Big Block that rolled off the assy line, My Favorites atleast. In stock form those Boss 351,s were a force to be reckoned with.

Great story, and car. Love class racing, (the only real way to drag race, specially with a stick). Did a bit of F/S with my goat at NE drag way, mid 70s. Your V-gate and Jerico is to die for. Such a blast. Thanks for posting.

Awesome video. 71-73 were sweet

My buddy has a 1971 Boss 351. He bought it brand new. I think it has 20 thousand miles on it. Same color as that one. His has the 4 speed as well.

I raced a 73 Mustang 351-C 850 Holley , 4 Speed top loader , 9" with 456 gears . It weighted 2900 Lbs. . It was named Mr.Ed , I raced all around Northern Ohio in the 80s , loved that Mustang , it had about 20,000 street miles on it ....

I remember first seeing Dean at Fun Ford Weekend in Epping...must have been 1997? Couldn't believe how hard he ran that car...was convinced he was going to leave the center section on the starting line on one if his passes...totally awesome. Dean was a great guy. Someone I always sought him out to say hi to at the track even after I stopped running in Stock. Deano is cut from the same cloth. Good people.

REVan Evan. Great stuff your putting out there. Thanks for visiting us on the east coast newengland region. We’re a dying breed & in need of more stuff like this. Support to all our locals & the history you extract makes us interested. I love all kinds of cars from working on them. I’m a chevy guy, but I really want a 351 Cleveland from seeing all of the fords you cover.

Love this video. I had a red 73 Mach 1 that was my daily driver for 15 years starting in high school and college.

“Boss 351 - the rest of the story.” Great history. Awesome car. Comment about the Clevelands running too hard on themselves was interesting.

Another Great Vid Sir! I appreciate you saving our history.. That is what it's all about! Andy

Wonderful interview !!

As always. Great job.

I had a 71 Grande, 2bbl and later a 70 Gran Coup 440-4bbl 4-spd, engine out of a 71 GTX that was wrecked. Liked them both, of course the Barracuda was a different animal to the mild mannered Mustang. But I actually liked the Mustang more, the styling, and handling. This guy and setup shows what that car and engine can do. All you hear about now are Hemis. Always liked that 351, sweet motor. I'm impressed.

Man Evan love every one of your videos. We get to see cars and events we would never get to see. Even got to meet you in Bradenton 2 years ago at the nmra.

Such a wonderful surprise to see this video featuring the Cook family. Very deserving and a great tribute.

Awesome Evan!! Loving the videos!

As a Rhode Island native I've seen this car run many times. The Ford camp had the Cooks and Tasca (Bill Lawton & John Healy). Chevy was Bob Johnson, Mel Perry (funny car)-Scuncio Chevrolet. Across the state-line in Connecticut, Dave Lebrun out of L&L with his Stock record holders. Thanks for this video.

Another GREAT vid Evan!! 👍👍

This is the first time I've been watching your channel and you ask all the right questions and get all the right specs I'm so amazed and happy that I've seen this video you got a subscriber

What an Awesome car with great history!!

I wish I had a father like that

I'm a road race guy....but like to watch the drag stuff. Dean seems like a great guy that has learned hard work from his dad. Thanks for sharing!

Always Great Content 👏🏻👏🏻

Great video Evan! I had a friend that raced the exact same combo in Stock Eliminator. An original Boss 351 with the lower HP Cleveland and a H pattern shifted Jericho 4 speed. No V-gate for him!

That’s awesome stuff great episode!

Great video Evan. Love the racer/racecar ones

Would be a real treat to see Evan behind the wheel again. 😎

Great run...Good Job!!!

wow , 1st time i ever heard the Lifters going bad by a stock racer before. Very nice interview and great People and car!, I was there for 1st round of time trials, but was not dressed for the windy and cold weather . I bet i seen this car many times there racing since 1980s . it loks familiar and i bet i got some photos of this one too

Awesome episode.

Good dude. Great video

Beautiful car sir!!! What a beast 😳 😁

🥝✔️ 15 HP gross less M code iron intake weight and HP breaks. Nice ride!

Such a cool car. Great video

Love it!! I’ve got a 72 but wondering what was done to cut the weight!! Mine is a tank compared to this one 🤣

Great car, great guy, great story.

Great video! Cook family great people

Well done Evan and other great family racers.💪🇨🇦👍😎

Love the classics. May not be as refined, but way more fun

Love 4 speed cars especially with history

Brings back a lot of memories

Now Thats poetry in motion!🤠👍

Paper-slip wheelies on the 1-2 shift. What a neat car.

I never knew how strong and solid Cleveland engines were until I saw this video and how they developed the new high-tech Ford engine off the Cleveland block. Are used to have one in my grand Torino, and it never failed me as heavy as a car was it was fast.

Hey Evan another awesome video you always great content!

Sounds awesome, especially when he's getting into it

Wicked car, and beautiful. This '71-'73 Mustangs always looked mean, intimidating vehicles to me. Not to mention the Boss 351, the name says it all! Great video as usual, love the Ford drag racing stuff.

bad as chit loved the ride down the track tanks dou😎ps gotta build your silver mach thanks for sharing cooter out🤩

I had a 72 coupe that exact same color and interior. Mine was not a race car, but I loved it.

Beautiful car and runs so fine.

Awesome car!!! Guy rows the boat!!! Badass!!!

Omg I’m loosing it !!! Bang on !!

Im a ford guy from diehard ford family. My chevy friends i would tell a 4v cleveland is like a heavy cammed dz302 or a rectangular port bigblock chevy. Give it carb and gears and turn up the rpm's. They always joked kindly and with amazement saying i have a 2stroke powerband. Not much up to 5000K then wham it hits like a train and shift at 7400. If in need ive pulled 1st and 2nd to 7700. (Really just to shock and amaze my friends plus OMG it sounded amazing) Using just an old school calcams solid lifter flat tappet. 610 lift. 270 ish duration at .050. It was a sig erson new but ran awful. Calcams reground it. Idled at about 1200 sounding like a prostock. Custom 750dp worked over to 838. (This was early and mid 90's, didn't have mail order race carbs like we do now. Mine was done at specialty shop, flow bench, etc)

I freaking love it!

Beautiful car! Cleveland power!

Dean Sr. Was a GREAT Guy R.I.P. Raced against him in the 80s and 90s

Beautiful car!

Hi Evan, I really enjoy your Ford focused content. Could you or have you ever thought of putting together a Ford Fan events calendar? I love seeing it all on your channel but would enjoy hitting the road to attend some of these great events.

RIP Dean Sr. One of my heroes back in the day.

Still finding the coolest cars. Internet is great but I still miss the mmff days looking forward to that new magazine every month. I had crates and crates of them.

Cleveland still ripping i love taking my Cleveland powerd cobra out on weekends and ripping it does a great job of snatching the little cobra down the road

The Boss 351 was Ford's quickest factory mustang produced in the muscle car era.

lover of boss 351. still have mine

Good looking car, too!

nice 71!

Nice wheelies!

Sweet!!!

Okay Evan, you're killing me! Love this car, love how it's been raced and taken care of! My '73 Mach 1 351C is still stock, kinda hard to find 4V closed chamber heads for these things. But I'm still looking to do something that's still street friendly. We'll see, seems a neighbor of mine has a 351C, 4V engine, not sure if he'll part with it!

I read that the new Dark Horse is actually longer than this car. That really blows my mind...

I own a 351 Cleveland. In a Montego. It is a Model 1970. It needs lots of work. I have had it for ten years, just sitting in my Garage. I haven't had time to work on it. Maybe someday.

Sweet mustang!

Most people don't know but if you go back to the hot rod magazines of the muscle car era, the '71 Mustang Boss 351 held the factory Production line record for 1/4 mile right up until the more modern era of supercharged Mustang variants. It was quicker than the 428 Cobra Jet cars and the Boss 429.

Thanks

I had a Boss 351 with plain black interior and was black on yellow with a 4 speed and rear spoiler. I sure miss my car.

Wow, that car shocks the tires hard!

'67 hardtop Fairlane 428-toploader 1/4 mile 2 tires burning the distance

God Bless America