Hot Rod may be celebrating its 65th anniversary, but Ford's flathead V8, the engine that birthed the entire hot rod hobby (and, in due course, this magazine) first rolled off the production line ...

It sounds like an old cliché by now, right? Just do a four-barrel intake and carb swap, and wake up your old, lazy 289ci sloth. But it can’t be quite that simple, can it? Turns out that it may be just ...