Jon Hall and Motor City Flatheads built a ’33 Ford to serve as a show-car testbed for their new all-aluminum Flathead V-8 ...

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 flathead helped build our country. It’s Americana.” Ford’s flathead V-8 isn’t the best engine ever built. But in some corners of the hot-rod world, it’s still the best-loved.