In 1932, the Ford Flathead V8 helped establish the car customization ... When Ford first announced the Ranger Raptor T6 Raptor, all the Ford fans went: "Ah, yes!" When the pickup finally landed ...

While the Small Block Chevy may be the most tunable and the Chrysler HEMI the most powerful, Ford’s Flathead V8 engine has been around for nearly a century and is the grandfather of every V8 ...

Although many of the ideas were initiated by Henry Ford himself, the team led by Carl Schmaltz, Emil Zoerlein, and Ray Lard ...

Ford made the vee-shaped engine popular with the Flathead V8 option for the Model B in 1933, which cost just $10 more than the four-cylinder engine ($240 in today's money). Ford may have crossed ...