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History Channel's "American Pickers" Mike Wolfe picked Flathead City to rebuild his 60 hp Ford Flathead from a picked 1932 5-window coupe. After the 60 hp engine was disassembled Mike and I decided it would be better to go with a 59AB to insure better reliability and to generate 200 hp. Progress Start to Finish!

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Specializing in Ford Flathead Engines 1932 through 1953

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Brief Flathead Engine Hisory:

The Flathead was the first independently designed and built V8 engine produced by the Ford Motor Company for mass production and ranks as one of the company's most important developments. Before the 1932 introduction of this engine (and the accompanying Ford V-8 automobile), almost all production cars aimed at the average consumer used straight-4 and straight-6 engines. "Multi-cylinder" engines (like V-8s and even V-16s) were produced, but were not intended for mass-production. In the United States the Flathead was replaced by the Ford Y-block engine in 1954. The Flathead was licensed to other producers, including car and truck manufacturers in the Soviet Union. It was used by Simca in France until 1961 for cars and even later on the Simca V8 military truck.

Modern performance FORD FLATHEAD ENGINES are still hot rodded today, with a special land speed record class for flathead engines. The current record holder achieves 700 hp (525 kW) and 300 mph (483 km/h).[2] Note that on one pass the car broke 300 mph (480 km/h) but did not set a record. Two passes have to be made in order to break the record.

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