About the Registry

Randy Ream has been a Mustang fanatic since he bought his first Mustang at age 15. It was a coupe with an automatic transmission. He bought a parts car to change it over to a manual shift. Liked the idea of shifting since most performance cars were 4 speeds. He saw his first BOSS 302 on the street at age 16 (1972) and thought it was pretty cool. It was a yellow 1969. A friend of his saw a 1970 Grabber Orange 302 in town for sale a few years later and tried to buy it. He didn't have enough money and the bank wouldn't loan him what he needed. Randy saw it the following year at a local park. Got to know the owner, who knew more about BOSS 302's than Randy did. Randy had a 1968 GT500KR at that time and realized after racing the GT500KR against this BOSS that, with a smaller engine, was quite impressive. They became good friends and the BOSS owner was Randy's best man at his wedding.

Randy met Todd Eby at about the same time. Todd had a 1970 Candy Apple red BOSS 302 that he bought from the original owner. Randy was fascinated by his car too so when a 1969 BOSS 302 came up for sale in 1981, he bought it. The Shelby Registry had just been published. Randy and Todd thought it might be cool to do a BOSS 302 Registry. They contacted Donald Farr who did a BOSS 302 survey for SAAC in 1979 - 1980 time frame. Donald handed over the reins to Todd and Randy and thus the BOSS 302 Registry was born. We saw Steve Strange doing newsletters for the BOSS 429's so we did the same. That newsletter thing is still going.

The purpose of the Registry has always been about the cars and not necessarily the owner although knowing who owns the cars has its benefits. We will withhold any/all personal information if requested. We try to reunite engines back to the original body. Made a messageboard available so owners can communicate along with buying and selling parts. They also print Registry books from time to time making it easy for enthusiasts to look things up. Look for another edition in the near future.

The Registry is not about making a profit. Far from it. Randy often spends his own money for various things to keep the Registry going.

We'd like to recognize Bob Cloutier for all the years of web site hosting that he provided at no cost to our community. Bob is the founder of a technology company, and he recognized the value of having a web site dedicated to the BOSS 302. He registered the boss302.com domain name in March 1998. As a "car guy" himself, at one point he owned 12 BOSS 302 Mustangs and was very active in the hobby. He met Randy Ream at Road America in 1998 and they got to talking about using the domain name for a web site dedicated to Randy and Todd's registry project. Around the same time, Jeff Finley was also asking Randy about a web site for the project. Randy hooked Jeff up with Bob, and Jeff finished building out the site. The site first went live in October 1998. Bob covered all the hosting costs until 2022, when hosting was picked up by Scott Hollenbeck. Thanks to Bob, Jeff, and Scott for their contributions to the site!

Thanks for visiting,
Randy Ream and Todd Eby