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Daves55Sedan · 06-30-2012, 11:41 PM

When I was a kid, my parents had a '51 Merc. It was a flathead V8 and had an automatic transmission. In the early '60's, the flathead wore out, so my dad just went to a junkyard and got a Y-Block V8 out of a later year Ford car and dumped it in there. He used an adaptor plate to mate the Y-Block to the air-cooled bellhousing.
Don't know if you can still buy them now. Might be best to ask some of our freinds in the early V8 forum.

06-30-2012, 11:41 PM	#4
Daves55Sedan Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Granite City, Illinois Posts: 3,008	Re: will a ford-o-matic off a yblock bolt onto a flathead?? When I was a kid, my parents had a '51 Merc. It was a flathead V8 and had an automatic transmission. In the early '60's, the flathead wore out, so my dad just went to a junkyard and got a Y-Block V8 out of a later year Ford car and dumped it in there. He used an adaptor plate to mate the Y-Block to the air-cooled bellhousing. Don't know if you can still buy them now. Might be best to ask some of our freinds in the early V8 forum.