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The 1970 Torino Cobra with the 429 Super Cobra Jet is the muscle car that most enthusiasts can name and almost none have driven. Ford rated it at 375 horsepower, five more than the standard Cobra Jet, but the interesting part is what those five horsepower were hiding. The SCJ was not a tuning exercise. It was a structurally different engine, and you could only get it by ordering something else entirely.
A Northern California storage yard owner called MustangConnection1 to talk through what to do with four forgotten Mustangs, including a numbers matching 1969 Mach 1 with the factory 428 Super Cobra Jet and Drag Pack. Two more fastbacks and a loaded convertible round out the find. Watch to see exactly what has been sitting there, and why Mustang collectors online cannot stop talking about it.
A straight trade between two muscle car enthusiasts in 1977 turned into one of the great sleeper stories of the era: a 1969 GTX swapped for a dark green, unassuming 1970 Ford Torino packing the Super Cobra Jet engine and factory drag pack. Read on for the specs behind the sleeper — and the dollar-on-the-dash trick that proved just how quick it really was.
Ford built the 428 Cobra Jet to solve a problem the 427 couldn’t: it was cheaper and easier to manufacture, yet nearly as powerful. Officially rated at just 335 horsepower to dodge rising insurance premiums, the CJ actually made over 400 with a hood scoop, and it proved it by winning the Super Stock Eliminator title at its competitive debut at the 1968 NHRA Winternationals — months before it even reached dealers. A Super Cobra Jet variant followed with quiet internal upgrades built for durability. Read on for the full story of Ford’s most underrated engine.
A 1970 Ford Torino Super Cobra Jet, rated 375 horsepower, faces a rare tri-power 1966 Oldsmobile 442 rated 360 horsepower in a Road Test TV quarter-mile matchup that crosses an unusually rare brand pairing. After trailing for much of the run, the Olds closes the gap late enough that viewers called it a genuine surprise finish. See which factory muscle car actually crossed the line first.
Mike bought a disassembled, engine-less Mustang shell in a small Pennsylvania town on nothing more than a seller’s claim that it was a genuine Super Cobra Jet Drag Pack car. A Marti Report later confirmed something neither of them suspected: this was the first Super Cobra Jet Mustang ever ordered with 4.30 gears. Read on for how a risky overnight decision uncovered a documented piece of Ford history.