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 engine.

Introduced in 1932, Ford's Flathead V8 became popular with hot rodders for ... these small block V8s of the past have become valued by hot rod builders as inexpensive yet powerful power plants ...

18 years after the Cadillac L-Head V8. The Flathead might have only had around 80 horsepower, but it exploded in popularity in the 1930s, with Hot Rod Magazine crediting it for inventing the ...

Still, this wasn't enough to hurt Flathead's unmatched hot rod legacy. Ford's MEL engine lacks the legacy of its Flathead V8 predecessor. However, it was a much better engine, designed for luxury ...

Take one classic American car, add one classic American V8, sprinkle with tire smoke and you pretty much have every hot rod to roll out of a shop in the last 40 years. Mike Borroughs knows it wasn ...