I like the yellow!
What color did a flathead v8 come in from the factory in 1950?

 

Great looking engine. You have to love those youtube videos. You watch one and then there are a bunch of other interesting ones come up on the screen after.

Like this one.

and this one

and this one

or just for something OT and different, if you like the sound of 16 glorious V12 engines and planes, you may like this

 

but i sure don't like the fuel line that close to the headers..
guaranteed smoke test failure..

 

Depends on what flathead you are talking about. The car engines were bronze, the truck engines were red, and I think the Mercury car engines were green.

 

Thanks to this thread, I just spent an hour watching people start flatheads. I'm starting to get ideas that aren't healthy for my pocketbook.

 

I have admired a number of good looking flatheads over the years without having a great interest in having one. I figured they are old stuff, unreliable and not powerful enough for a tough street motor and apparently cost a lot of money to build and a bit fragile in use nowadays.

However recently I considered buying a local old school style A roadster with flattie, (pictured below). I find myself wondering what it would be like to have such a car. Probably never happen but I think it would be a blast. The main disappointment I think I would have had with this car is I have always had it in my head it would be on a set of Deuce rails, and this is on an Austin chassis.



My dream car I missed out on when I was in America. Not a flattie but I have loved this look since I was a kid and I hope to buy one yet (not capable of building one, but at my age I will enjoy the heck out of it)

 

Just look at that "chick magnet" in action, Neville!

 

Yeah I can just see chicks flocking to it with this old geezer sitting in it (and do I need more trouble than I usually am in around here). I already have a great chick I would love to go cruising in my rod with. I reckon this video would be a blast, first ride in A roadster rod.

https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&r...62577051,d.dGI

Now I can't post a video, it was a piece of cake before.