You know, even though the Ford Flathead story is an old one, there never seems to be a shortage of fresh ears and curiosity regarding the subject. Surprisingly, though I've been a diehard traditional ...

Ford's famed flathead V-8 was revolutionary when the automaker put the engine into production in 1932. It brought the V-8 to the mass market and ready power to hot rodders for decades to come. But its ...

There's a dragstrip in Maine, just a few miles south of Bangor, called Winterport Dragway. It has the flavor of the hundreds of regional strips that once covered the country, and it's doing its best ...

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A heavily customized 1952 Ford F-2 pickup is drawing attention ahead of a no-reserve auction in the United States, showcasing ...

The Ford Flathead V8 was the first mass-market V8 and the starting point for uniquely American performance. What's interesting about it is exactly what made it possible—simple and cheap to build—is ...

Produced from 1947 for the 1948 model year through 1952, the original F-Series line was offered with the venerable flathead engine. Named after the flat cylinder head, the side-valve V8 was replaced ...

Engines are at once surprisingly delicate and amazingly robust. The explosive forces contained within their combustion chambers are shockingly powerful, and it only takes one small crack to send an ...

Starting life in 1932, the venerable Ford flathead V8 engine was refined and updated until its overhead valve successor filled its spot under the hoods of Ford passenger cars in 1954. The earliest ...

There is no way we can count all the weird machines we’ve seen cooked up by more or less prominent garages across America over the years. Yet we’re pretty certain we’re going to remember this thing ...

Hot rodders, moonshiners, and NASCAR owe a tremendous debt to this powerplant. Named for its distinctive flat cylinder head design, the flathead V8 went into production in 1932. It stayed on the ...