I see a lot of modern engines, such as the new Hemi or the LS-series, getting custom big-bore sleeves. Can a similar process be done to, say, a flathead Ford? Everyone I ask about this says you can't ...

Shades of HRM's April 1956 cover, except this is H. Bob McKray and not Sonny Francisco's husband, Don. Last month we compared the internal and external elements that constitute a snull-block Choy with ...

The Pinetree Jamboree resurrects nostalgic heads-up flathead racing at one of New England’s oldest surviving historic drag strips.

“The flathead ruled,” says automotive historian Ken Gross, who owns two hot rods motivated by venerable Ford V-8s. “I mean, it was the motor for hot-rodding.” Yet as much as the flathead spawned ...