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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ford is the company that brought us mass manufacturing and with that, more affordable cars. It's safe to say that company truly popularized the car as a form of transport for everybody. However, since ...