The second crop’s last year was the start of making them more than just work trucks. The owner’s was repainted with ...

Although the flathead design is now largely considered obsolete, it had an advantage over overhead valve ... and that year Ford also introduced a 300 cubic inch straight six engine.

Ford's first Flathead—a 3.6-liter 221 cubic-inch unit—was known ... the system works far simpler than an overhead-valve (OHV) design or an overhead cam design that requires additional parts ...