That's the October, 1952 cover of Hot Rod Magazine... It features the FoMoCo produced aluminum block flathead. According to the article inside, ten of these blocks...<P><P>To read the rest of this blog entry from The Jalopy Journal, click here.
I'd love to see something like that pop up. I can't imagine how all 10 would ever be recovered and I suppose that at least a few were trashed in the testing process, so that makes these some of the coolest and rarest things around. Wouldn't that just be the bee's knees to have one resurface because of the HAMB though. Wishful thinking no doubt, but crazier things have happened.... This reminds me of the Pontiac "Hemi".
Ive always wondered what happened to them . kinda holly grail like , I remember reading that hot rod when I was a kid.
BILL Smith (Speedway Motors Lincoln NE) if anybody would have / know where one was, it would be him. In his museum they have an air cooled flathead (no water jackets). This was a pet project of Mr. Ford.
Didn't TRJ run an article about these years ago? ( I sold all my TRJs to make a house payment so I can't check...)
http://www.museumofamericanspeed.com/ I didn't see an aluminum block here but still some killer flat heads.The speedway complex is big like a walmart warehouse,if anyone has one I'd think it would be Speedy Bill.
I saw one here,forget the guys name.Old collector in denver. It was in a shitty old building,offered him $10K for the engine. And he never gave us an answer. I'm sure it's still sitting there.
I have that same mag. in front of me right now. The one in the article at the time was owned by Raymond W. Schlachter of Lexington,KY. The Oct. 1952 article also says, " The guess of the Ford Motor Company is that Schlachter is the possessor of the only Ford V-8 aluminum block now in existence."
Yes,issue #18.Probably the best place to look would be airplane museums,if they have a Ford Trimotor,since that is what they were actually built for.
didn't someone post a pic of one a few months back.....it was sitting on the bed of a truck.... might have been a new one, though
What a bout the Simca Vedette( Ford) V8 .weren't they alloy block too?.I know they were seriously popular down here in 3/4 midget dirt racers.
Yes I recall it said a guy in socal has the one from the HOT ROD cover and plans to run it in a deuce p/u. GRANCOR got them from ford and was selling em back in th. .... Here's the new one (OHV only)
A little O/T but I just bought the Tony Thatcher book '75th Anniversary of the Deuce". He goes into tremendous detail about the '32 and specifically about the flatheads. I highly recommend it for you flathead fans.
Well, if you're lucky enough to find that elusive aluminum flathead block, then you're gonna need an aluminum oil pan to go on it. And I just so happen to know where one is.... *cough* (Ebay) *cough*
One of the "Complete Book of Ford "published by Peterson Publishing in the early 70s featured a complete original all Aluminum Flathead Ford V8 engine including the original factory packing crate.this was a ready to run engine and they said that although the engine could be started the owner refused to run it because he didn't want to risk lowering it's value as at the time it was the only one known to exist.Supposedly 10 engines were built as test motors for use in Ford manufactured aircraft
There is indeed still one of the aluminum blocks in denver owned by the same person mentioned above... pretty cool.
My Blown Ardun has a new aluminum blocK. Don's been making them for a couple years. In fact I don't think there's anything old in the motor since I switched to one of his blowers Also got a crank with Chevy flange and snout Simca motors are iron they just come with aluminum heads and a two piece pan..... upper part's aluminum Stock
Well it has been some time since I have seen one of these....back in the '60s..... It was in a Simca. It was the aluminum version of the Ford V8 60 and not the full size Ford engine. At the time I was running a 3/8 X 3/8 '51 Flathead in my '35 Ford PU and wasn't much interested in the little engine. .... I was having to much fun dusting the new corvettes on Bayshore Freeway.
I remember that pic as well, it may have been a video because I seem to remember that he started it up in the back of the truck on the engine stand. .
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