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What Killed The Flathead V8 Engine
Flathead V8 engines were the first mass-produced V8 engines sold in production cars, with Ford’s first example dating back to ...
The EX87 chassis had a 1955 Corvette body from car #6903 mounted on it, along with a 265ci V8 engine and a two-speed automatic transmission. It spent the next few years as a 1956 demo car before ...
The combo of a small car and a big engine gets to the very heart of hot rodding, but this Chevy Spark is an extreme example of that tried-and-true formula.
However, the program really took off a year later, thanks to orders for Camaros stacked with 425-horsepower iron-block (Don Yenko), and all-aluminum (Fred) 427-cubic-inch engines. In 1970 ...
As a buyer of the world’s best marques, Rivolta was in a good position to judge their shortcomings and recognised that the key lay in using an American V8 engine, the best of ... Somehow missing out ...