As hot rodders, most of us have that one car ... The only body modification he had to do was cut out the firewall to clear the '37 Cadillac flathead engine and to make the engine's vintage speed ...

Late models of L-head Cadillac engines have been used in hot rods but few have been outstanding performers. They make good road engines, for, as the saying goes, “there is no economical substitu ...

The 1934 Ford Flathead V8 engine was topped with a Burns dual-carburetor intake manifold. Like Grabowski's Model T and other L.A. area hot rods at the ... The 1950 Cadillac engine (from a junkyard ...

Flathead-powered hot rods continued to be popular throughout the 20th century. Even with the rise of the arguably superior small block Chevy and Ford 351 mills, hot rodders kept shoving flatheads ...

They were cheap to buy and easy to fix, most had Ford flathead V-8 engines but they almost always sounded faster than they were. They were called hot rods ... from a Cadillac, seats from a ...

Petersen, "The Magazine for a Motoring World" declared the 1949 Cadillac its first Car of the ... The old 346-cubic-inch flathead V-8 was heavy, and none too efficient. The new 331-cubic-inch ...