Nothing says legit like a flathead engine in your early Ford roadster. Greybeard Boomers know the score, and Gen Xers burnt out on small-block and LS-powered toys are looking to the flathead to make a ...

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 ...

Extremely popular with the hot-rodding community, the Deuce was the first Ford to offer an eight-cylinder engine. The open-top model before your eyes, however, said adios to the bone-stock flathead in ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the first few decades of the 20th century, V8 engines were finicky, expensive things reserved for low-production luxury cars. Fancy pants Cadillacs and LaSalles were powered by V8s, while more ...