On May 4, 1970, James Awalkowiak from Hastings, Minnesota, drove away from Livingston Ford Sales in a brand-new '70 Boss 302. He had ordered the car with a limited but unusual combination of options-4:30 Detroit Locker differential, tachometer, heavy-duty battery, and rear spoiler for performance, plus the black Deluxe interior to go along with the classy-looking Medium Blue Metallic exterior paint. Within a few months, he had replaced the standard 15-inch wheels, corporate hub caps, and Goodyear Polyglas tires with Magnum 500s and BFGoodrich T/A radials. Instead of selling the low-mileage factory wheels and tires or tossing them into a corner of his garage, James indicated just what was in store for his Boss 302 by carefully encasing the original parts in large garbage bags and storing them, along with his new Dearborn-built Mustang, in his heated garage.

"It was his second car so he didn't have to drive it," explains Bob Perkins, who has owned James' old Boss 302 for the past five years. "He was fanatical about it. Even though it's an original Minnesota car, it always stayed in a heated garage so the floorpan is perfect. Ford's metallic paints usually didn't hold up very well, but because this one never sat outside in the sun, the original paint is among the best I've even seen."
 
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