AMT 429 engine from '70 cop car: Origin? Options?

[ChrisBcritter]

I've pretty much settled on the Ford 429 Shotgun (IIRC?) engine for my '58 Ford project; I know there's one in the '70 Galaxie police car, but did AMT borrow that engine from another kit? The rare Blue Crescent Mustang seems to have the same engine and I like the low-rise dual quad setup. Is there another source in 1/25 for that engine in a street-ish configuration? Thanks for your help.

[Jantrix]

This is from the AMT 73 Cougar kit. It comes with a single carb intake, but a little clean up and the plennum from a tunnel ram and I was able to do a fairly respectable dual quad intake. 

 

Edited March 3, 2016 by Jantrix

[Mark]

The police car engine was originally in AMT's '70-'71 Torino Cobra.  AMT hacked that kit up to create a funny car body, and the engine wound up in the police car (itself converted from an LTD hardtop promotional model).

[ChrisBcritter]

Thank you Rob and Mark! Off to the hunt... So was the Blue Crescent Mustang's engine a different tool?

[Mark]

The "Blue Crescent" kit was the '70 annual; a Mach I body but with the Boss 429 engine.  Much of the engine and underbody from that kit was recycled into AMT's '71-'73 Mustang annual kits, with the '70 body ending up in a funny car.  That Boss 429 is one of the weaker ones out there.  The MPC Cougar kit engine pictured is better.  The best block/heads are in the Jo-Han kits: Maverick, Comet, and Pinto and Mustang funny cars.  The pro stock Maverick and Comet engines have axle holes in the block; larger holes in kits with plastic axle rods as opposed to the early ones with wire axles.