1949 ford flathead start up

49 ford flathead v8 started up on the floor of the shop

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Autos & Vehicles

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• 1949
• ford
• flathead
• v8

[musky70]

Best mechanic in the world right there! I wish we still shared the garage in HB. Good old days

[larry309]

@musky70 Yes he is! I miss that bastard!

[65f100352]

WAIT!! This is impossible!!! A running engine without a computer, O2 sensor? TPS? Pressure feedback? NO CATS?? INCONCEIVABLE!!!! There's NO way those old timers could get something to run without a CAD/CAM designer!! I'm blown away....:) Great sounding, bud.

[normanplombe]

our grandfathers knew how to build shit, didn't they?

[ford9572]

@mschiffwl1000 You got THAT right Baby!!! Any rodder who lets someone else build their car for them is a 100% FLAT OUT WUSS!!!! That old Flatty sounds REAALLLLY SWEET!!!! I have a Custom '36 Flatty Pickup with a '49 Flatty, Hurst 4 speed tranny & 2 & 1/2 inch Lake Pipes that I built myself, That Baby is AWESOME!!!! I have a custom Clarion AM/FM CD player in there & whenever I'm listening to an Oldies station & The Beach Boys's "Little Deuce Coupe" comes on, I crank that sucker up full blast as

[mschiffel1000]

boyd coddington and all of his over the top and stupidly expensive cars broke away from the grass roots of hotrodding....real rodders scrounged parts and improvised and rarely bought expensive things to build their cars...chrome and billet sucks....and that old flatty sounds nice!...real hotrodders build their own cars...they don't have someone build one for them !!!

[Brikkyz]

I used to have alot of respect for Boyd Coddington, but then he canned Flat heads and called them dead. A true rodder appreciates all aspects of it. Long live the flat head!!!!!!!!!

[Awesomeguy6271]

Me and my dad got a 48 f2 for our project truck all chrome is intact and there truck is great little rust and few minor dents and it's got 42,334 miles we Had her runnin the other day she got some minor issues but it still runs after ten years of sitting in our barn hopin our motor purrs like urs u got a keeper

[john6218att]

I ordered a fuel pump kit from Dennis Carpenter Ford restoration and no fuel pump diaphram gaskets so I made my own and had to change the shaft that the diaphram is mounted to because the replacement was shorter than the old one, I was in a hurry and didn't want to wait to get another one, and it works fine, have to replace the two bottom radiator hoses and get it registered , what a sweet running v-8.

[fireburst102]

@john6218att we have a 1949 ford f5 graintruck that was converted from a firetruck. those flat head v8's r awesome. they never stop running.

[john6218att]

just fired up a 48 f-6 fire truck that sat for about 10 yrs in the woods, purred like a kitten, couldn't believe it usually they will sieze if not turned over after a while, 28,555 miles, cab is solid,no rot, minor rust.

[Twangabilly]

My Dad's friend's Hudson has a 47 Ford flattie with short straight pipes coming out near the front wheel.

Has to be my favourite sounding car.

[grubblesnert]

yea!!! I noticed I was grinnin as big as that guy in the video....... 49-53 the best flatheads. It's been a while since I heard that sweet sound and copied it well. My motor was a 52 8BA sold it in '77 I'm hoping to buy it back here real soon! Biggest kicker is it's in an uncut 49 Merc Coupe!

[billmorse]

None of that aluminum shit on that block!