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 ...

Seventy-five years ago, Henry Ford made automotive history by introducing an affordable V8 engine in the low-priced field. Legend has it, Mr. Ford hated Chevrolet, so he refused to have anything to do ...

It's been over 50 years since the last Ford flathead V-8 was commercially produced in the U.S. It was not your Dad's engine-it was your grandfather's. Simple by today's high-tech standards, during its ...

Rare Ardun-equipped Ford flathead V8 crate engine built by Irvin Werksman is offered for sale with period-correct performance hardware.

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 ...

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 ...

By now V8s are popular enough for just about every auto manufacturer to have one of their own. Even Mazda developed a V8 for a luxury brand, Amanti that was eventually disbanded, but that V8 was never ...

It was considered a major breakthrough when Ford launched its Flathead V8 engine in 1932. Up until that point, V8 engines were expensive and limited to just luxury cars, but Henry Ford wanted one that ...

Q: Hi, Greg, I really enjoyed your article about the little 195.6-inch Rambler American six-cylinder flathead that I also have in my car, a 1959 Rambler American. It runs so quiet and smooth. You ...

I've put in my time as a marketing copywriter, having hammered out text for everything from junk mail to trade-show booth signs, and sometimes -- actually, nearly always --such gigs require that the ...