The Mercury Eight series holds the uncanny honor of being the debut line for the upscale Ford division. It was manufactured between 1939 and 1959 over a total of three generations and sat in between ...

The Ford Flathead V8 was the first mass-market V8 and the starting point for uniquely American performance. What's interesting about it is exactly what made it possible—simple and cheap to build—is ...

The last generation of the Mercury Eight Coupe had just three years’ worth of production between 1949 and 1951, and one of the latest examples made it to 2023 with a chest of memories and gorgeous ...

For the first few decades of the 20th century, V8 engines were finicky, expensive things reserved for low-production luxury cars. Fancy pants Cadillacs and LaSalles were powered by V8s, while more ...

Q: Hello Greg! I am an old ‘51 Mercury customized flat-head man and sure remember those wonderful cars from the 1950s and then also from the 1960s. The pictures in your recent columns have brought ...

The Ford Flathead V8 wasn't the first V8, but when it debuted in the 1932 Model 18, it brought this brilliant engine configuration to the American masses. With a simple design featuring a flat ...

V8s are about as close as you can get to a "default" American engine. The Chevy Small Block V8 is one of the most versatile engines ever produced and it's been swapped into cars and trucks practically ...

Ardun is a name that has created more interest in the minds of performance-minded car enthusiasts than any other engine to come along in this country since the Offenhausen The air of respect for this ...

Editor's Note: Looking for a low-buck purely fun project for your street/strip or whatever machine? Nostalgia is the vogue, so why not build a fathead? Sounds silly at first, perhaps, but think about ...

Flathead V8 engines were the first mass-produced V8 engines sold in production cars, with Ford’s first example dating back to 1932. The flathead design is very simple; as the name implies, the ...

Sydney Herbert Allard's most famous creation, the J2, was the product of a British spin on a very American formula: hot rodding. Allard crafted a lightweight two-seat chassis, clothed it in a ...