[quote FC61U77U4YX0B4FV]Fords flathead V8 started it all as david said and what came after that engine it just got better and better long live the V8 engine[/quote] Yes, MoParlover, long live the V8! One of the ironies of the Flathead is that Ford was planning to replace it with their six for the new 1949 model because that's what the ex-GM manager (who HFII had hired to help him run Ford after WWII) believed ought to happen. A young statistician, Chase Morsey, did some market research and convinced HFII that it was a bad idea and the V8 was saved. Morsey went onto to plan the T-Bird and it was his market research that convinced Lee Iaccoca that there was a market for the Mustang. In 2013 he wrote a wonderful book called "The Man Who Saved the V8". Worth the read