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The History of Ford’s Iconic Flathead V8 – Ashley Webb – The Motorhood

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Interesting Flathead V8 article from Ashley good historic content and a timeline of Henry’s icon!

The History of the Ford Flathead V8
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

Rodder’s Journal – Flatheads Everything you wanted to know about Henry’s first V8, all in one place.

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There is a great Flathead resource right here at the Rodder’s Journal

Rodder's Journal - Flathead Archives
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!

Flathead Ford Intake Manifold Smackdown – From Marlan Davis at HotRod

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Flathead Ford Intake Manifold Smackdown
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

 

Found Another Good Flathead Website!

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Flathead City looks a really good supplier of  Ford  V8 Flatheads, even supplying one for Mike Wolfe of “American Pickers” fame, website here

Mike Wolf Falthead City Flathead City

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Who knows what happened to the third Edsel Ford speedster? (Daniel Strohl Hemmings)

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Who knows what happened to Edsel Ford’s third speedster?

1935 Special Sports – the one that seemingly nobody has seen in more than six decades.

Article from Daniel Strohl at Hemmings

Who knows what happened to the third Edsel Ford speedster? Who knows what happened to the third Edsel Ford speedster?

H&H Builds a Flathead Motor – Flathead For A Knucklehead (From HotRod Network)

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Another slightly older but interesting Ford Flathead V8 article, this time it’s from Rob Fortier at HotRod Network.

H&H Builds a Flathead Motor - Flathead For A Knucklehead
H&H Builds a Flathead Motor – Flathead For A Knucklehead

The article covers a build by Mike Herman of H&H, who also shares some of his secrets!

Read on here

Head Scratcher Mystery Flatheads – E&S Ford Flathead V8 Cylinder Heads (From Hemmings)

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Not a new article from the excellent Jim Donnelly over at Hemmings, but very interesting nonetheless.

These heads are unusual in as much as the manufacturer, (E&S), are not widely known, plus the heads appear to offer extra cooling capacity to combat overheating which is often the bane of the Ford flathead V8.

Read the article and the mystery being solved by Hemmings readers here

Head-scratcher
Excellent response to Jim’s article from Mike Russell The E&S heads were made by E&S Manufacturing Co. 1828 Keystone St. Burbank CA phone CHase 7-7447, Ed Schneck owner, Kong Jackson was involved in the design. They also made several styles of multiple carburettor intake manifolds. The “Super Marine Special” was a staggered 4 carb beauty with fins. They also made a cool 2 carb manifold featuring a “Blast Box” for street use which could be replaced with a low carburettor mounting plate for racing applications. Other products included scoops and an offset generator mounting bracket. The company moved to Georgia at some point and changed the name to L&S. The E&S Custom, Super Race, and Supermarine heads feature a revolutionary design of combustion chambers, valve and dome areas, which results in absolute maximum turbulence and enables the use of ten to one and higher compression ratios with maximum volumetric efficiency and excellent fuel flame propagation. “Choking off and “peaking

 

Holmes Motor Company – If It Isn’t A Ford V-8 It’s Out Of Date

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Article from the excellent The Old Motor  Internet magazine

“If It Isn’t A Ford V-8 It’s Out Of Date”: was a catchy slogan used in the front window of the Holmes Motor Co., a Ford dealership located in Lexington, Kentucky at 180 East High Street. This publicity photo was taken in the summer of 1934 by the Lafayette Studios, also of Lexington.

Read more here