a high school was tearing down the storage sheds for the auto body shop, from back in the day, and called the right guy to save this 50s Merc 255 with a 3 spd overdrive

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1188541599956916&set=pcb.2589845058028956

it's not whether you win or loose, it's how you look when you play the game.

 

looks like a v12 flathead

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10232962652402465&set=gm.1961705857898195&idorvanity=218971585504973

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/front-drive-blown-reverse-flow-flathead.762532/page-3

https://www.facebook.com/groups/218971585504973/posts/1946993842702730/

there has to be a reason I've never seen this before

 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=706173561542657&set=a.590140826479265

Damn, some lucky local guy is going to SCORE cheap flatheads, and a sweet F4! Why? Cause I sure as hell can't travel to go buy these

 

https://bid.aumannauctions.com/auctions/catalog/id/32311/

Twin Flat head V8's one drove the front rear the other the rear rear, 2 transmissions 2 drive shafts 1 driver. Built to haul bomber parts during WW II

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by-part-2.1154030/page-1011#post-13927444flath

20 minute flathead rebuild in an engine shop video... skip the first two minutes

Great googly moogly

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1614905241995596&id=100004284075892

Dan at Hemmings found something unusual and cool... an Ford flathead powered magnetic coil carrying airplane minesweeper used to clear paths for ships in the English Channel and Suez Canal during World War II.

the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force began working on ways to counter the German aquatic magnetic mines. The RAF decided to detonate them from the air.

the German mines used dip needle detonators that worked “on the same principle as a compass,”
to detect the passing disruption in the earth’s magnetic field caused by a metallic ship.

RAF engineers had Vickers equip a Wellington twin-engine long-range bomber with a 51-foot-diameter balsa wood ring that housed an aluminum coil.

Inside nestled a Ford flathead V-8 engine hooked up to a 35-kilowatt Mawdsley generator that in turn energized the aluminum coil to create a magnetic field that would trigger the dip needle detonators.

The aerial minesweeper had to fly at between 60 feet and 35 feet to to trigger but avoid damage from the mines.

The RAF ordered construction of another three before replacing the Ford flathead with a lighter and more powerful DeHavilland Gipsy engine to turn a 95-kilowatt generator that powered a smaller 48-foot coil

Among other accomplishments, the plane was used to clearing a lane for aiding the escape of the Dutch royal family to England in May 1940.

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2019/06/17/how-fords-flathead-v-8-helped-save-lives-as-an-aerial-minesweeper-during-world-war-ii/#comments-block

thanks Gary!

nothing to see here, move along

Clarence Everett and his 1968 396SS Camaro, a theft recovery car

he ran G or H/G, he was a flathead legend in Oregon, ran often at Woodburn dragstrip, and Bonneville

rumor has it it was the world's fastest flathead 0 to 60 in 3.5 seconds, a 1950 Merc block

Clarence took his one-year old ‘68 Camaro SS, yanked out the V8, and replaced it with a Flathead Ford. Everett apparently raced in a class that only allowed Flathead engines, as well as inline six-and-eight cylinder engines. It is an odd, odd combination, Flathead Ford and Camaro SS, but Everett reportedly saw a lot of success with this car.

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/unusual-engine-photos.1123661/#post-12758572
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=825419161144108&set=gm.2059190357532156&type=3&permPage=1&ifg=1

I don't remember ever seeing this bike before

http://bikeintheshop.tumblr.com/page/76

time lapse removal, tear down, rebuild, and reinstall of a falthead in the Hagerty Swapmeet to Street ol Ford truck from last fall's event

The swap meet challenge truck was covered in http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/10/a-four-day-ford-in-time-lapse-build-or.html

the Stephens overhead valve conversion heads, 3 or 4 sets exist

one set is in Speedy Bill's Nebraska museum of speed, one is on Gene Palmer's hot rod



top image from https://www.flickr.com/photos/hugo90/1718058628/

H&H (Mike Herman's flathead engine company) has grown by acquiring two other historic companies

He started by buying Navarro

Now Mike has added McCulloch Superchargers and Sharp Speed Equipment

That is pretty cool

Learned about this in Rod and Custom Magazine

a speed parts collector sent in a couple photos to Rodders Journal... wow, what a stash!

a set of Ardun heads... man.. that's hard to guess how long he waited to find a set for sale

intakes on either side of quick change center sections

instrument panels, flatheads, banjo steering wheels...

and more intakes and carbs... wow. This is not just a great collection, but a great presentation.

Thanks to Carl Tregler in Erie Pennsylvania! Link to source with a bit more info: http://www.roddersjournal.com/portfolio-item/garage-scene-pennsylvania-gold-mine/?utm_source=TRJ+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=76172f4c7a-Garage+Scene%3A_1_15_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_016fd74f35-76172f4c7a-85734653

cool prints by Max Grundy, selling on his website http://www.maxgrundy.com/

 

 

http://www.maxgrundy.com/

A Sweet Sickness ... flathead fords

Found on http://lostliver.blogspot.com

Paul Gommi's incredible 32 Fords... the delivery/panel truck is nearly untouched from the late 60's, and the Deluxe V-8 Phaeton is so rare... one of maybe 50 left in the world, and the only SCOT supercharged 21 stud ever built

 in the above, check out the cool coin holder at the right of the pencil holder

 I love this... the guy stole a drive in movie theater speaker for his radio!

 cool turn signal

 I think that is a motorcycle exhaust cooling fin. Damn good idea, but might be doing a lot more for appearances than cooling exhaust this far from the engine

 I dig that radio dial

 Another drive in movie theater speaker

Some of the cool stuff in timmytimow.tumblr.com

from timmytimow.tumblr.com but beware, it's NSFW

21 Studs, you awe me, this incredible artwork is made by, Nik, the guy I've admired for all his work on Carros Antigos!

These pinups are based on Gil Evgren's pin up girl paintings http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/01/pinups-by-gil-elvgren.html and that post has the original of this 3rd piece









tell me these aren't the coolest thing you've seen all day. Click on them to get the full size version, and thank http://21studs.tumblr.com for creating them.