The Engine That Saved Ford Motor Company from Bankruptcy The 1932 Ford Flathead V8
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- Henry Ford was facing declining sales in late 1931. Falling from the top position of the auto industry and loosing ground with Chevrolet and their introduction of a more powerful 6 cylinder motor, Henry Ford was facing a difficult decision. The Great Depression was affecting car sales. His solution was to make a V8 from just a single cast block. Nobody in the automotive industry had done it before and even his top engineers thought that it was impossible. But Henry Ford felt otherwise.
With historical film footage from the Ford Library, this documentary film talks about what Henry Ford did, risking over 600 million dollars to create an engine nobody else could and introducing it in the 1932 Ford. - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
I was told this story of early testing of the Ford V8 by an older gentleman who worked as a toolmaker for Ford in 1932. It goes like this. (Not verbatim)
“Henry didn’t believe an oil pump was necessary in his new V8. Earlier models had worked fine with only a splash system of oiling and he wanted the engine kept as simple as possible. And to save cost of course.
His chief engineer, Charlie Sorensen, knew the high speed V8 would need an oil pump, but how to convince the old man?
Several cars were secretly fitted with V8’s without oil pumps and tested at high engine speeds on crowned dirt roads. Drivers were instructed to sling the cars back and forth across the roads as fast as possible to starve the engines of oil until they failed.
It worked. All engines failed and oil pumps were installed in all engines from that date forward.”
Thanks for sharing this story!
After the Model A, sales of new Fords dropped dramatically due to the popularity of both Chevrolet and Plymouth. Except for the V-8, Ford was usually behind those competitors by being the last of them to offer such features as a 6-cylinder, hydraulic brakes, and independent front suspension. Economizing by offering a more basic car after the Model T and Model A was Ford's failing strategy.
@@SpockvsMcCoyThe biggest reason for Ford lagging behind other manufacturers was his obstinate personality. He was determined not to pay royalties to to anyone, regardless of how badly new inventions were needed. For many years Ford vehicles contained only parts made by Ford, including tires and all
glass and plastics. It wasn’t until after Henry’s death that Ford became profitable again with the beautifully designed 1949 Ford.
I really have a hard time believing that it is hard to argue with physics. I was born in 1946 my aunt had a 1948 ford sedan it vapor locked a lot I still remember looking up at the bumper helping push it. That was probably in 52 or 3.
@@tonycolca2241 Vapor Locked Flathead Fords Were Due To The Fuel Pump Being Placed At The TOP Of The Engine. I Have A 1950 Mercury That I Finished Restoring, Putting Fiber Blocks Under The Carburators. But It Still Vapor Locked On A Warm Afternoon, After I Let It Sit And Idle Too Long. The Remedy Was To Carry A Couple Gallons Of Water In The Trunk, To Pour Over The Fuel Pump In Small Amounts, To Get The Vaporized Fuel To Move Through The Pump With Cooler Liquid Gasoline...
Anyone else notice how shuttering several plants, laying off 75,000 workers was delivered as a footnote? During the Great Depression no less. Perhaps this was not lost on my Great Grandfather who immediately left Detroit to open his own business...
It's common practice to do that when retooling an assembly line then, as well as, today.
Thanks for watching.
Indeed.
Would it have been smarter if he kept them open, and paid workers to basically do nothing?
@rare.phukin.spotted.halibut
Not offering a solution. Simply identifying an aspect that is apparently overlooked, the human impact. Grew up in solid Blue Collar (middle-class) & lived through NAFTA. Specifically, the consequences of the North American Fair Trade Agreement. Working men, like my father, define themselves by the work they do. When the job is lost, furloughed or exported so is thier identity. Moreover, the ability to provide for the family is placed in jeopardy. This has a profound impact on not just the worker but everyone associated, especially the family. Those who have lived it understand completely. The summer I turned 14, I was working & my Dad was not. Put yourself in those shoes for a moment. Now imagine that times 70,000...during the Great Depression no less.
That is what moved me to comment & ponder this practice.
As an old car guy, nothing beats the sound of an old flathead Ford.
I agree!
The reason they (Ford flatheads) sounded different = 8 cylinders exhausted out of 6 ports!
Absolutely 💯%
I hate 😒 when people put Chevrolet V8s in 30's & 40's FORDS 💙 A well built performance Flathead V8 can make up to 350HP with a SCOT Blower & Aluminum Ardon HEMI Cylinder Heads 😊
The Ford flathead V8 made the more powerful Chevy OHV 6 look good!
I disagree, have you ever been in a Ferrari? I have, and I use to be a hotrodder in my youth, '32 Ford roadster chopped and channeled, w/ a Ford V8, triple Stromberg carbs, Edelbrock three qtr cam, the works. My friend's Ferrari sounds better, trust me.
I did my mech.apprentice-ship at the "Ford-Homebush-assembly-plant"-in Sydney Australia in 1962-we were working on Falcons,-but they had a bay set up for "flatheads" with torque tube removal & delco timing devices,-a lot of the "old blokes"worked on them I had to "learn the ropes"on the mighty "flathead"--I've owned 32's--but my "favorite-ford"is the beautiful 1936 line--of witch I own a 5 window Coup'e !!
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Thanks for the great storytelling! The first V-8 in a low-priced car was an engineering triumph... as Henry Ford detested the concept of the 6-cylinder engine. However, in the 1930s both Chevrolet and Plymouth eroded Ford's once dominant market share with their 6-cylinder engines. The V-8 engine was a niche player in the overall low-priced market... as more buyers in that price class were looking for economy and relative comfort rather than higher speed performance. General Motors took over from the Ford Motor Company as the dominant player in the American auto industry at that time. Opposite to Henry Ford's domineering and "by the seat of your pants" style of management, GM perfected collaborative management, mass-scale manufacturing accounting/payroll, the annual model year changes, a hierarchical pricing strategy spread over multiple makes and models, and a smooth planning/execution of phasing out one model and phasing in its successor. Rather than concentrating on the V-8, engineering resources could have been better spent by Henry Ford in more quickly phasing in an independent front suspension (introduced with the 1949 Ford), hydraulic brakes (introduced with the 1939 Ford), and a modern 6-cylinder (introduced with the 1941 Ford). Despite the lingering Great Depression, there was still a need for a new car to satisfy the large price gap between the Ford Deluxe and Lincoln Zephyr (introduction of the 1939 Mercury).
All good talking points. Thanks for watching and commenting!
V8 Model A cars were not exactly affordable. Then and Now, Factory Delivered very pricey Model As V8s to Dealerships; nearly impossible to get an affordable Base Model A then, reason majority were sold with an improved and more powerful version of Model T; because they were within consumers budgets.
@@dmcnamara9859 Prices ranged from USD $495 for the roadster, $490 for the coupés, and $650 for the convertible sedan. Production totals numbered from 12,597 for the roadster to 124,101 for the two-door sedan. Ford sold 298,647 V8-powered Model 18s in 1932, and except for the fact Ford could not keep up with V-8 demand, the essentially identical 4-cylinder Model B would have been a sales disaster: dealers switched customers to them from the V8, and even then sold only 133,539, in part because the V8 cost just USD $10 more. [Wikipedia]
In 1941 what was modern about a flat head six. Also the flathead v8 was a very bad design the exhaust went under the intake manifold then between the cylinders before exiting the engine block. The first flat heads had a lot of problems and many were returned pin holes in the casting cracked blocks. All the problems were never completely worked out. The thing I don't like about ford products if you have a warranty problem the fight is on. You can have something that is obvious to anyone with any mechanical knowledge is on its way out. Ford's philosophy is it still moving when it completely broke we will fix it. You can state that the car is going to stop soon their response is we have dealers all over the country.
What are you a GM executive ?
Clyde Barrow was big fan of the Ford V-8 and the Browning automatic rifle.
Sad but true... Thanks for watching!
Of course he was. The Browning allows him to outgun the Feds and the Ford flathead permitted him to outrun the Feds. He fully understood his role in society
I have been a Ford man for 70 years, My dad loved flat head fords I now know why, wow is all I can say,
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One of the best automotive videos I have seen in a very long time.
So glad you enjoyed it!
My first car war was a 53 merc' with a flathead V8 ... best engine I ever drove .Bar none ... dependable / bulletproof and economical
So cool!
The more you learn about Henry Ford, the more people should respect him. The head of the 3rd largest company in the US and working on the design and manufacture of his products components.
Were the products perfect, no. Where they a revolutionary compromise between cost, manufacture, and design, yes.
Great points! Thanks for commenting and for watching.
You know he had a book made called the international jew where he had research on jews through history in europe and it didnt paint them in a good light
@@deadend85 Ahh, poor baby. A bronie weeb, like youself, should go to Penn, Columbia, or Harvard to fight antisemitism instead of accusing people who have been dead decades and there is no confirmed case of them discriminating.
My father put the old flathead in his beachcombing and log salvage boat. It ran like a top and parts were a plenty. This was in the 1960s.
That's awesome! Thanks for sharing!
This is a fine history video of the Ford motor company Flat head V8 engine and thanks very much.....
Old F-4 Shoe🇺🇸
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
When everything is fitted properly and adjusted to specs., the only noise a flathead V-8 makes at idle is the ignition points closing!!
Wow nice!
Helped a friend rebuilt one of these for small engine hs class in the mid seventies,everyone else worked on lawn mower engines. One of only two “a”s I got in high school to go into one of two five window coupes he and his father were restoring. Missing you rusty
What a great story! Thanks for sharing!
It cannot be done.
Until it is.
Imagine, doing something that no one had ever done before. Such heady days back then! The discoveries and implementation of new tech nowadays is usually not world changing. But back then? Wow! Good video! Where ever do you find such? Keep 'em coming!
Thanks my friend. Ford's film library is truly awesome. Narrating and editing with a bit of foresight can be a bit unnerving, but I think I am getting better at it. What Ford Did with the V8 development in Edison's workshop is truly amazing.
Thank you for the old Ford movie clips. 👍
Glad you like them!
Enjoyed seeing the videos of the 20 million car and the 400A used as a camera car. As an owner of a 400A and an original survival 35 Tudor V8 with 31K miles. The difference between the 4 and 8 cylinder is impressive, great video of automotive history. Ken in Kentucky.
Hi Ken from Kentucky! Thanks for commenting and watching!
Hang on to that A 400. They are so pretty!!
Can't beat a Ford V8!
Agree! Thanks for watching!
“… can’t beat that engine for getting there, oil burner or no…”
@@dennisyoung4631 Agreed!
Late in the vid, when the 32’s came out, they at first were known for *burning oil.*
Which one? They be lots of ‘em.
After about 15 years the old flathead four just was not cutting the mustard anymore, more power/speed was needed to compete, the flathead Ford V8 was the first mass produced V8, there were others But not mass produced!! I have always liked the shape of the Model A, a coupe V8 in dark green with black fenders would me!! 👍👍
That would be a nice color combo!
Not true...
Cadillac had the first mass produced V8 was introduced in 1914 with the
Cadillac Type 51. 13,000 were sold...
@@granddukeofmecklenburg with respect that is an incorrect comparison. 13K Caddy's is not a mass produced car. That same year 200K Model T's were produced. When Ford rolled out is V8 in 32, you could by a new car for as low as $500.00 I doubt you could have purchased a V8 Caddy for that price point. Yes, there were other V8 engines on the scene before Ford's but as the video states, not for the average consumer and not for the intention of it being mass produced at such a low price point. Thanks for watching and commenting!
the oldschool assembly line vid is awesome. i love the sob that picks up the cast tranny turns it and installs it to the block by hand. ive pulled one of these before. had to use knees to hold up on reinstall. i cant imagine doing that all day. people were tougher back then.
The sure were tough back then. Thanks for watching!
@alanprather8399 Asinine comment. They were dying at 63 years old 😆. It was also during the great depression, if you didn't or couldn't do a job, somebeody else would. After all, if Henry had no problems with his security shooting four workers, what would he care if somebody was injured on the job? Not tougher, desperate.
Great story. Seeing the tolerance he used, most lawnmower engines use tighter 90 years later!
Great point!
I consider the 32 Ford two door coupe the first true American muscle car. It checks off all the correct boxes. Put a powerful V8 in a lightweight car give it some fancy styling and a reasonable cheap price that most people can afford. It was speedy and gave the average American a fast car.
Absolutely! I so wish I had one!
Man I thoroughly enjoyed this and appreciate it !
I consider myself a half ass Ford historian and I learned a couple of things I had never heard about.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I am by no means an expert about Ford. I learn something new each time I make one of these videos and honestly, I enjoy learning probably more than I enjoy making them!
@@kensmithgallery4432 Yeah I can see that,, the research is fun !!
The 1932 Ford was also unique in that it used a transitional 106-inch wheelbase. A longer 112-inch wheelbase chassis would be introduced in 1933 and last through 1940. Henry Ford believed that a design should last for several years... so it was a bitter pill for him that the 1932 Ford had both a one year old body and chassis. Ford had to quickly introduce a longer car in 1933 to remain competitive. The profitability of FoMoCo at that time is hard to determine because they did not use general accounting principles. When grandson Henry II took over in 1943 he later had the company audited only to find that FoMoCo was losing money. The 1949 Ford, Ernest Breech (accounting genius with both General Motors and Bendix), and the "Whiz Kids" (included Robert McNamara) saved the company from bankruptcy.
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And then McNamara became the new problem for them.
I grew up driving Fords and credit them with turning me into a master shade tree mechanic. It was the only way I could keep them running. 😊
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heal soon sparky
Oh yeah well we grew up owning chevrolets so we just walked everywhere 😂
"Coo-pay" is actually the "right" way to say it, as it means "cut" in French, as in, the body was shortened compared to a 4-door sedan. Americans soon gave up the "ay" and shortened the word to "coop". So just like the body style, the word got shortened too!
That's pretty cool to know that! Thanks for sharing!
I love saying that when I get in my 91 2 door Jetta diesel 🤣
Wonderfully done!Iindeed, the 32 roadster was an icon to the Greatest Generation -
Glad you enjoyed it!
The amount of metal they shaved off that piston made me think the casting process needs fixing, lol, wow. So much future refinement yet to come.
Yes, and it eventually did. Thanks for watching and commenting!
The Ford flathead V8 used a cross-plane crankshaft rather than a flat plane. Unlike an inline engine where the piston weight only needs to be matched to the other pistons, the pistons in a flathead (and all other cross plane V8's) must be matched to the weight of the crankshaft counterweights. Therefore the pistons needed to be made with plenty of extra material which would ensure they could be machined down to the appropriate weight. Production variability in the crankshafts made this necessary.
So much refinement yet to come is a bit of an understatement. Imagine producing a V8 in the modern day that only produces 65HP. You'd be fired.
@@KenFullmanFit for a dodge.
HI, my father was working for New Jersy machine at that time, he had told me that Henery Ford was frustrated with the engineering people telling him the casting the one-piece V8 was impossible.
while walking through the factory he spotted a young man sweeping and asked him if he wanted to go to metallurgy school and he would send him if he could cast the engine. as the story goes the young man did just that. I've always wondered if it was true, my dad sure thought so.
Rich
Hi and welcome to the channel. That sounds like a wonderful story that your dad shared. I don't know if it's true or not, but it sure makes for a wonderful story none the less! Thanks for sharing!
Wow, that sure sounds like something Henry Ford might do. Who knows for sure! Still, that's a pretty cool story. Thanks for watching and for sharing!
My auntie, a large woman, bought a 32 Victoria. The family called it the TB, for tremendous behind. That bothered aumtie so much that she sold it. We had a 49 Ford with the flathead V8. What a gas hog!!!
Thank you for this fascinating presentation!!!
Thanks for sharing your story and thanks for watching!
Seen this documentary! This was a little more detailed on the engine and the whole car.Thanks for sharing!
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Hope you enjoyed it!
Deigned and built with no CAD or CNC assistance. No computers in sight.
So true!
Thank you for the reply you forgot to mention Clyde Barrons love of the car and his legendary long distance escapes .
As a kid in late 60s/70s the ford was a car to own in Uk
I didn't know how popular it was in the UK! Thanks for sharing!
Great video! Thanks for sharing!
You bet!
Thanks So much for this video ❤
My pleasure!
My dad had a '39 ford V8 PU. It was rough, welded fenders, etc, but it always started, always cold or not. Little squirrely in the rear end as it was light
Great memories!
Well done and interesting. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
General Motors had a straight eight flathead! The Pineys in New Jersey had them in there tunnel Garveys for clammers.They could REALLY HAUL ASS.I am proud to say i am related to Piney people who were hard working people and vetrons of WW2 and KOREA.My uncle William Benjamin Groff of PORT REPUBLIC made a mill saw from the rear drive of a junked automobile.
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Interesing to me. Twenty years ago I owned a 1948 Ford V8 Pilot - a US style car produced by Ford of England. It had a 3.6 litre V8 engine. Its worst feature was that to set the contact points, you had to drain the cooling system and remove the radiator.
Oh wow!
The narrator in the early footage of this film sounds very much like Groucho Marx....What Say You?
Early Ford V8 distributors were driven off the camshaft directly behind the radiator as stated. They had dual points and two caps and normally didn’t require much servicing. But, if service was needed they were very difficult to service.
I met a man once who was on Okinawa near the end of WW2. He told me this story. “We found an abandoned Japanese 1939 Ford truck that wouldn’t start. After some checking we discovered the reason it wouldn’t start was a cracked distributor cap. One of the boys was a crack mechanic and wood worker who understood those old engines. He removed the cracked cap and carved a new one out of hardwood. After inserting the center coil and four metal wire contacts he put the homemade cap on the distributor and the engine started right up. ‘We drove that old truck all over the island.’ “
Wonderful video and info. I never had a Model B, but as a kid in the 1960's I had a 1930 Model A rumble seat coupe.
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Great video. Although Best playback speed is at 1.25.
Thanks for watching! I appreciate your feedback too!
I will see your 1.25 and raise to 1.50 , fast but listenable.a fine documentary tho,very good .
I'll fold. But this is the first time I've heard a human voice imitate AI word mistakes :D (kidding, kidding) Good documentary.
Thank you for making this video, you just got a new subscriber!
Awesome, thank you!
@@kensmithgallery4432 thank you!
Very well done!
Thanks so much!
Using a small group of people (engineers) keeps the number of 'loose lips' to a minimum. Corporate espionage was alive and well back then too!
It sure was alive back then!
Neither Chevrolet nor Plymouth had a V-8 engine until 1955...so secrecy around the development of the Ford V-8 was irrelevant.
@SpockvsMcCoy It is relevant. Maybe without secrecy, the other companies would have a V-8 a year or 2 earlier. You can BUY a smaller company with the 2 years of revenue.
The reason they (Ford flatheads) sounded different = 8 cylinders exhausted out of 6 ports!
That would do it!
Excellent review
Glad you liked it!
Well done. Fun Ford history.
Thanks so much and for watching!
A very interesting piece of automotive history.
Thanks for watching!
You're making great progress. Hope to see you in September.
I hope so too! I don't see why it won't be ready. The hardest parts of this build is the sub frame (now done) and the doors, (have not started on yet). Finished the B pillars and have the A pillars angle planed and ready to cut. Going to test fit the sub-frame next week.
Great video, thanks
Glad you liked it!
Clyde Barrow gave it 2 thumbs up.
Yes he did!
I love t h e flathead ford. Im using my 1949 ford 8n in the garden. Love hearing it plug along. Its therapy.
I bet it is!
2:11 yes Ford is great love them. Henry Ford was one more engineer. Smart man.
He sure was!
excellent
Thanks so much for watching!
What a great video 👍
Have you got any more like that? 😃
Yes I have! Check out my channel!
Well done Sir.
Thanks so much!
All that handy work that went into one car. Wow nice.
WHAT A FINE CAR.
A stock Victoria,,,,,
I know!
Fantastic video
Thanks for watching!
Thanks 😊
You're welcome!
❤😊love learning about engineering
Me too!
I have 2 1936 fords humpback v8 flathead love the sound
Such a beautiful sound too!
The Universal Carriers of WW2, British troop carriers, all had Ford Flathead V8s.
They build 113,000.
That's a pretty cool bit of info!
@@kensmithgallery4432
They rode them into battle with M2s, BRENs and 3" mortars.
The original versatile support vehicle, adored by commonwealth troops.
Picture a large 4 seat armoured skidoo with 4 guys full of machine guns and a V8.
@@MostlyPennyCat Those sound awesome!
The flat head turned the USA on to V8s and bigger displacements but the rival Chevy Stovebolt 6 in various sizes was a huge influence worldwide inspiring a great many manufacturers 4 and 6. cylinder designs of all sizes even diesels
Yep, I could not agree more! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Ironically, the Dodge/Plymouth FLATHEAD 6 made more power than the last Ford flathead V8, 115 hp vs. 110.
All cylinders are not created as equal! 😉
@@JeffKopis The 53 Mercury
flathead made a 125 horsepower.
I wonder what Henry would think of EVs, if he were still alive today……
And that IS the question!
His wife drove one actually
Coupé pronounced 'coop' is a relatively modern thing. In the 1930's it was almost universally pronounced 'coo-pay' and given the accent on the 'e' like Beyoncé or café. .
Cool! Thanks for watching!
Wow, some of the '32 V-8 issues still exist in my 5.0 V8 Coyote engine on my F-150 ;-p
Oh no!
Henry was very hard on his employees and his Son !
A business vehicle had a flathead V 8 , in the summer you better not shut it off or you would wait an hour before it would start again !
I heard about vapor lock issues with the flathead V8.
The early Ford V8 also served in midget race cars until about 1960.
I've actually seen one of those too. Way cool!
That was the 60 HP Ford V8. Too weak for full size Fords. Actually
designed for the European market that taxed automobiles by the size of their engines.
It’s unfortunate that Ford developed a V8 instead of an inline 6.
An inline 6 has perfect first and secondary order balance and therefore runs smoothly while needing less counterweights and only has one cilinder head which makes more efficient to build and to maintain.
Thanks for watching!
That is amazing...about 100 years ago...
And it still is!
Since the flathead V8 was known for vapor lock and overheating problems that really were never totally solved, not even towards last years when they used that engine. I'd sure like to know how many vapor locks and overheating issues they suffered in that Mojave desert torture test.
In the book Ford in the '30s they talk extensively about the development of the Flathead V8. The engineers knew when they designed it that it was going to have overheating problems. Due to the fact that the exhaust ports ran right through the block. So naturally that heat was going to be transferred into the The cooling system.
In fact the designers wanted more time to refine it but Henry Ford was having none of that. He wanted that engine and he wanted it now.
To Ford's credit They did keep after the cooling issues and people easily put up with the vapor lock and overheating because a Ford with a V8 was a FAST car.
Awesome notes that you shared!
@@kensmithgallery4432 Thanks. When you think about it it actually is amazing that they were able to figure out how to cast a whole complete engine block at one time. Then when you consider how many decades Ford used that engine to power all of their vehicles it's pretty incredible.
My older brother RIP had a 51 Ford flathead with the ford-O-matic tranny. We lived in Phoenix Arizona at the time and we would drive that car up to Prescott, Jerome, Sedona and the Verde Valley area. Sometimes in the summer it would overheat going up that long haul to Prescott from the valley. We would have to pull over and let her cool down a little bit. But it always started right back up again when it cooled down off we'd go. I miss that 51 Ford but I miss my older brother a lot more.
Actually, OHV had problems frying the cylinder heads when the exhaust wasn't cooled.
If there was a good cooling system, Flatheads were very reliable.
Vapor lock was due too high fuel pump location. A better flow of coolant might have been enough.
They had two water pumps,two radiator hoses to the heads, very large radiators and they still ran hot. Racers used to remove half the impellers from the water pumps to pump “less”
water through the radiator for better cooling.
Weren’t many pilots or v8 however fords were and are popular
Cool!
Ford had some brilliant engineers v8 was a good size engine to fit the engine bay of smai or largy
It sure was!
Ford made the flathead V8 in two different models one was a 65 horsepower and the other was 85 horsepower back in the thirtys and went from flathead to overhead valves in 1954.We use to drag race and the overhead won every time.They used flathead V8 in stock car racing untill it slowly evoved out they were very ruggette engines.How you could tell the difference between a 65 horsepower and 85 horsepower is one had the distributator in the front engine and the other had the distributor in the rear of the engine.
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My dad and his 2 brothers had a 49 stub nose for truck with the flat head V8..it had torque and a unique sound .....love that truck but thier were a couple of engine block in the corner of the shed as a reminder of its weak points...any that motors flat head is my favorite...
Great story! Thanks for sharing and watching!
Gotta love those cylinder heads that were so simple you could almost make your own with hand tools. As long as you had 1 flat surface you were set.
Pretty amazing when you think about it!
Low cost,reliable,powerful car that is fast and stylish. That car is beautiful.
Yes indeed!
My grandfather bought the model B. I never saw it, but I heard her fond stories of riding in the rumble seat behind the cab. We forget that the typical highway speed in the 1930s was 35 miles an hour. (57 kph)
Sounds like some great memories you have!
Interesting that both grams and ounces were used for tolerances
For sure!
this could be the inspiration for the gigacastings of model 3 and model y of tesla
Could be. Thanks for watching!
God bless
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What's going to save ford this time?
Who knows for sure...
We take the assembly line for granted now but Ford's was the most efficient and unique, so much so Ferdinand Porsche visited and used it as his later model.
He really was efficient!
Very nice documentary, Ken, but work on your narration timing. You could speed it up by 20% or so to improve things.
Thanks for the tip and for watching the video!
*Engine. Unless you mean the starter motor. That was a big help too!
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You might want to run that by General Motors and Ford Motor Co.
Duce coup ...Ford flatheads are still hot rodded today, with a special land speed record class for flathead engines.
Yes they are!
And now the electric motor may plunge Ford into bankruptcy.
It sure could!
Was this the same engine as used in the UK ford v8 pilot
basically, yes it was. Thanks for watching!
Poor Henry Ford wouldn't know what to do now that they want to get rid of The V-8 Engine and do Turbo 4 Cylinder Engines that won't Last!!!!
You could be right!
Well I don’t know about that. I drove my 2012 Kia Optima 2.0L turbo 98K miles before trading with no problems. 274 HP if needed with great economy and comfort on regular fuel. 5/30W synthetic oil with changes of oil and filter at 5000 miles. I miss that immediate turbo boost on my newer 3.3L Kia V6.
Imagine 274 hp in that 32 ford. The world wouldn’t have been ready at all
Bronco sports tutbo 3 cylinder.
Have you missed the last 40 years of automotive engineering? Take your head out of your butt sometime and look around.
Having grown up on small block fords, I had always heard about the legendary flathead v8’s . Later in years I had an opportunity to rebuild one and was amazed by the 1 piece casting block. So incredibly complex to have the block, valve train and intake and exhaust runners all built into one chunk of iron. Making that happen in one casting really was an engineering triumph. If you’ve never seen one up close, go see one if you ever have the opportunity.
Thanks for sharing and for watching!
One of the reasons for the success was C.E. Johansson’s gauge blocks.
Great point!
All the parts were still available at that time
Ands they still are!
I remember being a kid it the 80s and wanting to get a flathead to rebuild. I never actually made even the slightest attempt at doing so.
I wish I did too!
These cars were so fast that criminals drove them -- um, er, they probably stole them -- especially Bonnie and Clyde.
That's true!
Be interesting to see what 16 to 24 yr. Old citizens would like to see take over the personal transportation solution. A single wheel hexaprop hybrid flyer would be my guess. Who has time to pave roads?
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Old-time Ford narrator dude said "CHASS-ISS" 😆
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Saved Bonnie and Clyde several times too!
It certainly did until the very end.
The gangsters loved it
Sad but true... Thanks for watching!
Ameal Snacbahro’ expert in car grill’s.
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We saw shultz in the other video
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