Our friends at Hagerty Insurance spent six grueling days rebuilding a Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] Flathead V-8 that they bought at the Hershey Swap Meet last year. Fortunately for us, they've ...

Everyone knows it's a lot of work to rebuild an engine. That's not really up for debate. But for anyone who's never actually rebuilt an engine themselves, under it could be easy to underestimate just ...

The Ford flathead has become an icon of early American motoring and now you can enjoy its beautiful simplicity with this time-lapse video. Ford’s “flatty V-8” comes from a time when mass-produced cars ...

We feel this one belongs in the second category. One which sees this humble and iconic 1946 Ford Pickup's flathead V8 restored to better than new condition. This series of Ford pickup trucks had a ...

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 ...

One of the more interesting parts of working on cars is working on various cars. Every iteration of the automobile wears fingerprints of the time it was built, the peple who built it, and the ...

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 ...

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 ...