There was the 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 302 and the 1969 Chevy Z28 DZ302, backed up by ardent supporters on both sides who claimed their muscle car was superior.

While Boss 302 Mustang owners tend to polish and baby their machines, Z28 owners thrash their cars constantly.

For less than $3500, you could buy a 302-cubic-inch Camaro fitted with the "special performance equipment" option (that means the Z28 handling package), a 4-speed (both wide and close ratio ...

To win the pony car war of the late '60s, Chevy released the Z28 Camaro, while Ford answered with the Boss 302, one of the most iconic Mustangs ever built ...

After all, Rich Pelton was lucky to find his 1969 Chevrolet Z28 Camaro the third time. Pelton, of Sparks, Nev., bought the same Z28 three times, the first time in 1974.

The ’69 Camaro’s new styling was a big hit, and so was the Z28 package, which found over 20,000 buyers, almost three times as many as it had done in 1968.

Originally designed to compete in the SCCA Trans-Am series, the first Z28 was powered by a 302 cu in small-block V8 that produced 290 horsepower.

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This 1970 Ford Mustang Boss 302 is about to spend the next part of its life in a heated garage in Massachusetts, next to a 1969 Chevy Camaro Z28 ...