Connie and Jim McConnell were nearly speechless when they found out that none other than "Big Daddy" Don Garlits, drag racing legend, would be rebuilding the flathead engine in their docile little ...

The flathead, in effect, was like a Greek hero with a tragic flaw. Exactly what made it possible is exactly what made it bad. Ford might have been able to make it better, and the engine did ...

The engine had a longer running streak than the 19-year run of the engine in the Model T at 21 years. The biggest one made, a 337ci block, produced 145 horsepower about two years before the Y ...

The 2022 Mecum Auctions event at Indy will be offering up a very rare Ardun OHV-equipped, Weber-carbureted flathead V-8 engine. Steven Rupp Writer Courtesy of Mecum Auctions Photographer May 04, 2022.