Ford Flathead V8 Gave Power to the People
Ford’s “flathead” introduced millions of car buyers to what eventually became a kind of American birthright: V8 power! Immediately after World War II, it then powered the popularization of the hot rod. In fact, it’s hard to imagine how hot-rodding would have developed if the flathead — affordable, widely available, and wonderfully receptive to high-performance modification — hadn’t existed.
Yet as much as the flathead spawned hot-rodding, hot-rodding undoubtedly helped shape the flathead and, more broadly, the all-American obsession with horsepower that still rules today …
https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/fords-flathead-v-8-gave-power-to-the-people/
(photo credit: Sandon Voelker)
