Another very good Ford Flathead V8 article from Marlan Davis, this time it’s a source guide for Flathead V8 performance. The article also contains some Flathead Myths courtesy of Tony Baron and a Flathead History Lesson courtesy of Charlie Clark
Really Good series of articles on the various aspects of Henry’s wonderful Flathead V8 on the Racing in Retrospect website from the Mid State Antique Stock Car Club.
Read on here
Interesting Flathead V8 article from Ashley good historic content and a timeline of Henry’s icon!
The History of the Ford Flathead V8
As you know I try to gather as much Flattie stuff here as possible, read Ashley’s article here
Ford Flathead Intake Manifold Collection – Manifold Destiny
This is an article from back in 2011 but still very interesting, one man’s obsession with collecting Ford Flathead inlet manifolds.
Read the article here
There is a great Flathead resource right here at the Rodder’s Journal
Rodder’s Journal – Flathead Archives
This is a great collection of books on the venerable flattie!
As always Rodder’s Journal is the place to go!
Took a trip to the Birmingham NEC to visit the 2016 Classic Motor Show.
A number of celebrities such as Edd China and Mike Brewer were in attendance.
American cars were well represented across the board in terms of both vehicles and clubs.
I popped in and had a chat with the guys on the MAFCGB stand and was made very welcome!
A day out all around!
There is an excellent timelapse video on the Hagerty YouTube channel of a soup to nuts rebuild of a Ford V8 Flathead.
According to the supporting article on the Hagerty website here
Over 400,000 pictures were taken and this resulted in the excellent 6 minute video
Great story from Hemmings showing that you don’t need to spend the earth to get a great result! Read on here
Flathead Ford Intake Manifold Smackdown
This is a slightly older but very interesting article from HotRod.
HotRod test 12 intakes that changed the Flathead world 🙂
Read the article here
Flathead City looks a really good supplier of Ford V8 Flatheads, even supplying one for Mike Wolfe of “American Pickers” fame, website here
Flathead City
