His latest ride, a 1933 Ford Cabriolet ... the car would be a perfect testbed for Motor City Flathead’s upcoming all-aluminum Flathead engine. See All 15 Photos The Shadow Rods team got ...

The party will also honor the famous Ford Flathead engine. When it debuted, the Deuce cost just $500 and was considered pretty revolutionary. Since then, as Ford puts it, they have been "modified ...

While the Small Block Chevy may be the most tunable and the Chrysler HEMI the most powerful, Ford’s Flathead V8 engine has been around for nearly a century and is the grandfather of every V8 ...

The engine was introduced to the British market in 1935; unlike the 221 cubic-inch blocks it's based on, Ford's 136 Flathead (coded the V8-74 but commonly referred to as the V8-60) used cast iron ...

Perhaps the biggest leap forward came in 1949, when Ford separated the bellhousing from the block and added a modern distributor in the front of the engine. Although the flathead design is now ...