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 ...

Given the fact that the first Ford Flathead engine was produced 77 years ago, and hot rodders have been tweaking them since day one, it would seem we would have learned everything there is to know ...

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 ...

On the leading edge of the supercharger industry, you'll find Magnuson Products and its MagnaCharger lineup. With many bolt- on blower systems on the market, and new ones coming out daily, the focus ...

Q: Greg, what changes have to be made to put overhead valves on a flathead engine? Thanks, Dennis “Mike” Scott, Manson, N.C. A: Dennis, the Flathead Fords have really caught on again with hot rodders ...

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 ...

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 ...

The build tag says this car is a Six Super wagon (code 6018-1), which was supposed to have had the Nash overhead-valve 196-cubic-inch six as the base engine. This car has the flathead version of the ...

V8 engines have played a pivotal role in the automotive world, offering a unique blend of power, performance, and character.

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 ...

The following story appeared in the November 2005 issue of HOT ROD magazine and has been supplemented with additional photos from the HOT ROD Archives and Getty Images. It has also been sequenced here ...