For the first few decades of the 20th century, V8 engines were finicky, expensive things reserved for low-production luxury cars. Fancy pants Cadillacs and LaSalles were powered by V8s, while more ...

Owning a 1932 Ford hot rod means living in two eras at once. The car’s bones come from the earliest days of Ford’s flathead V8, but most Deuces on the road today are the result of decades of ...

You may be asking yourself why Dennis Kilpatrick named his seriously hot-rodded '29 Ford coupe "The Smuggler." We can assure you that this was not part of the plan when he paired up with Nate Tanquary ...

Henry Ford's famous flathead engine may not be the king of the hill anymore, but it's still a member in good standing of the powerplant gang. After 40 years of durable road use and countless racing ...

Hot rodders, moonshiners, and NASCAR owe a tremendous debt to this powerplant. Named for its distinctive flat cylinder head design, the flathead V8 went into production in 1932. It stayed on the ...

A one-off 1927 Ford Model T hot rod built in the late 1990s with a mid-mounted Pontiac Fiero V6, custom independent suspension, and obsessive hand-built metalwork is now up for grabs on Bring a ...