When people start talking about the early days of hot rod competition, they usually don't stray too far from the subject of dry lakes and, occasionally, early drag racing. Even though track roadsters ...

Tough-looking Fox and Williams '32 coupe runs a 311 12-port GMC inline six. Lakes racer Keith Young displayed two beautiful Wayne 12-ports (a Chevy and a Jimmy). Dave Lukkari bolted a set of rare ...

It was considered a major breakthrough when Ford launched its Flathead V8 engine in 1932. Up until that point, V8 engines were expensive and limited to just luxury cars, but Henry Ford wanted one that ...

It's not uncommon for cars that are in one way or another important for the automotive industry to pop up on the auction block from time to time. Whether they marked the beginning of an important ...

When talking about vintage dragsters, we often think about truly iconic quarter-mile runners driven by the likes of Don Garlits, Don Prudhomme, and Bill "Grumpy" Jenkins. We often tend to forget about ...

The Ford flathead V-8 engine changed hot-rodding forever. When introduced in 1932, the 221ci engine put out only 65 bhp, and even at the end of its production life in 1953 the larger Ford 239ci ...

On the leading edge of the supercharger industry, you'll find Magnuson Products and its MagnaCharger lineup. With many bolt- on blower systems on the market, and new ones coming out daily, the focus ...

Making its debut in 1932 and lasting for two decades on the market before being replaced, Ford’s flathead V8 family of ...

Ford Flathead V8s are of archetypal importance to the hot-rodding community, even though they were never that powerful by today’s standards. They gave Regular Joes access to relatively high ...