FOUND!! V8-60 sedan

[compyello]

I like it, I just got mine a few weeks ago. Not as nice as yours, or as original, and sat for many years but not 53 years (only around 40). Mine does have a long family history.

[compyello]

Could you take a picture of the left inside door panel for me? I am wondering what it should look like

[cmbrucew]

Originally Posted by JSeery

Not a SBC fan, so that wouldn't work!!! You can put a Small Block Ford in about anything if you really want to, I have put two in a Focus, one a 5.0 and the other one a 351W.

One I saw had a mustang IFS The sbf was in, but no room for exhaust manifold. Steering gearbox in the way
Bruce

[milo]

Sure compyello.. Did yours come without the side and grille stainless???

[32 ford barn]

Great car! The stainless looks amazing. It's very hard to find 38 std. stainless. It took my friend 4 years to gather his. Great find. Jim

[40 Deluxe]

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Originally Posted by robert dick

that car is just begging for a 392 chrysler and auto transmission.

Someone needs that 392 hemi dropped on his foot!

[Y-Blockhead]

Originally Posted by milo

Ah, the 50's....

If you want an engine from the 50's how about Ford's OHV that replaced the flattie, a Y-Block, one of Ford's best looking engines (IMO) when dressed out (close second to the Flat Head itself... again IMO)

My 312" Y-Block/C-4

[milo]

I agree the Y-block is a good choice and yours^^^ is great looking but at first glance, I thought it was a SBC.. My bad....

[Y-Blockhead]

Originally Posted by milo

...I thought it was a SBC.. My bad....

HEY, HEY, HEY!!!

[scooder]

A hot rod has a flathead in front and tools out back!
A street rod has a f¥*%ing Chevy in front and a can o polish in back!
Please don't put a bloody monkey motion engine in it. You'll kill the poor thing. If you want comfy mile eating easy going torque, build a nice 276 flathead with an isky 1007 or 1007b or L100 cam pair of heads and two carbs on regular dual inlet. Include a correctly curved, key word being correctly here, that red capped aftermarket stuff ain't anywhere near correctly curved ( it has a sbc curve! ) ignition. Msd one is better. Use that bloody sbc Delco points distributor and get Charlie NY to curve it to flathead spec. Only usefull part on that engine.
You can slap a C4 Auto on the back of any year engine, and this auto is the slenderist trans, slides in with least amount of cutting. A later flathead can be fitted on the front of a later AOD trans. If you feel the need for a slush box.
You may already know this stuff I spec, but if I didn't say it here I would not be doing my duty to your car.
Martin.




PLEASE PLEASE don't kill the car. Mild hot rodding as I've described I'd be ok with. Just don't turn it into a another sbc powerd street rod. If you want to do that, do it to a shitter, your car is too good for that.
This comes from a hot rodder born an bread.

[milo]

Hey scooder, if you want to buy the car, you can do what you want with it, otherwise, STFU....

[TonyM]

Originally Posted by milo

Hey scooder, if you want to buy the car, you can do what you want with it, otherwise, STFU....

You don't have to be like that.

It would be a travesty to put a chevy engine in that car.

[milo]

You know, this thread isn't about flatheads, if you don't like what I'm doing to my car I understand.. I don't particularly like flatheads and I think most were replaced when the overheads came out.. I'm old enough to remember when flatheads were King but I also remember them being replaced because they were to slow.. If you guys want to run flatheads I respect that but in the mid 50's I also remember Chevys, Cadillacs and Olds overheads replacing a lot of the flatheads and that's the era of hot rodding I'm shooting for.. My build will not have tilt, air, a console or other street rod items but it will have an overhead and probably an automatic.. Sorry if some of you don't like it....

[39topless]

Originally Posted by milo

Hey scooder, if you want to buy the car, you can do what you want with it, otherwise, STFU....

Wow! Someone needs to take their meds.

[milo]

This is how I would like my 38 to sit...

[JSeery]

I think the issue may be that this is a flathead site. Lots of us have had experience with many type of engines in Hot Rods (including Scooder) and respect them all, but this is a flathead site so you are going to get inputs on flatheads. The HAMB is geared toward a variety of engines. I am first and for most a Hot Rodder, but my personal leanings are I will not mess with a restorable car. All of my cars (the Hot Rod ones) are ex-dirt track cars that are not candidates for restoration. I enjoy and take pride in bringing these lost causes back to life.

[milo]

JSeery, you are exactly right.. Silly me bad mouthing flatheads in the flathead section of the Ford Barn.. I didn't mean to offend anyone and I apologize.. Flatheads ARE cool and it's good that there are people who keep them running...

[41panelmark]

Originally Posted by milo

As stated , had not seen the light of day for 53 years...

Wow!!!! I like it a lot.

[scooder]

Milo,
Did you really just tell me to shut the f##k up!!??!!??
"didn't mean to offend" ??
Gota remember, you showed us Ford flathead V8 guys a really sweet car in very tidy condition, you then told us Ford flathead V8 guys your gonna hook the engine and put a brand X engine in it! I think we were very polite in our opinions. What reaction did you expect?
I certainly didn't expect your reaction to my post.
Martin.

[milo]

Scooder, please read post #37...