Owner: Fred Shea of Kingston Twp. “The car has been in my family for generations,” Shea says. “It was originally purchased for use on my family farm. I took ownership of it in the 1980s, partly ...

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 ...

The flathead is dead. At least that's what they used to say back in the mid-'50s as legions of modern overhead valve V-8s leaped out of wrecked passenger cars and onto the hot rod scene. But as they ...

Even if you're not all that familiar with pre-war American engines, most modern American gearheads have at least heard of the Ford flathead V8. If you have heard of it, you're probably conditioned to ...

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 ...

V8s are about as close as you can get to a "default" American engine. The Chevy Small Block V8 is one of the most versatile engines ever produced and it's been swapped into cars and trucks practically ...

Editor's Note: Looking for a low-buck purely fun project for your street/strip or whatever machine? Nostalgia is the vogue, so why not build a fathead? Sounds silly at first, perhaps, but think about ...

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 ...

Ford Flathead V8s are of archetypal importance to the hot-rodding community, even though they were never that powerful by today’s standards. They gave Regular Joes access to relatively high ...