The Mercury Eight series holds the uncanny honor of being the debut line for the upscale Ford division. It was manufactured between 1939 and 1959 over a total of three generations and sat in between ...

Q: Hello Greg! I am an old ‘51 Mercury customized flat-head man and sure remember those wonderful cars from the 1950s and then also from the 1960s. The pictures in your recent columns have brought ...

V8s are about as close as you can get to a "default" American engine. The Chevy Small Block V8 is one of the most versatile engines ever produced and it's been swapped into cars and trucks practically ...

The Ford Flathead V8 wasn't the first V8, but when it debuted in the 1932 Model 18, it brought this brilliant engine configuration to the American masses. With a simple design featuring a flat ...

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 ...

Want your ride featured on HOT ROD?Click hereto find out how! "The newest parts on it are the '49 Merc shocks on the frontend," said Mike Crawford of Palmer Park, Maryland, in an email to us regarding ...

Sydney Herbert Allard's most famous creation, the J2, was the product of a British spin on a very American formula: hot rodding. Allard crafted a lightweight two-seat chassis, clothed it in a ...