Engines are at once surprisingly delicate and amazingly robust. The explosive forces contained within their combustion chambers are shockingly powerful, and it only takes one small crack to send an ...

Studebaker went 100% to futuristic overhead valves before American Motors, turns out. Some readers felt that Studebaker kept selling its 170-cubic-inch flathead six well into the 1960s, but 1960 ...

Editor's Note: Looking for a low-buck purely fun project for your street/strip or whatever machine? Nostalgia is the vogue, so why not build a fathead? Sounds silly at first, perhaps, but think about ...

The Ford flathead V-8 engine changed hot-rodding forever. When introduced in 1932, the 221ci engine put out only 65 bhp, and even at the end of its production life in 1953 the larger Ford 239ci ...

It was considered a major breakthrough when Ford launched its Flathead V8 engine in 1932. Up until that point, V8 engines were expensive and limited to just luxury cars, but Henry Ford wanted one that ...