V8 Engines | Great Eight American V8's | Part 2 | Visit Detroit | Detroit Michigan

A hot rodder's perspective on the Great American V8 engines, with emphasis on Ohio George's SOHC Cammer, the LeMans winning big block that Foyt and Gurney beat Ferrari with and the quad 426 Hemis in the Goldenrod. The car reigns supreme in metro Detroit with numerous events, cruises, museums and attractions to see year-round, including all the summertime fun of Autopalooza. For more information, go to http://www.visitdetroit.com.

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[Dogurasu]

Nice bit of history..

He should have included the Ford Boss motors. The 302 Boss and 429 Boss were amazing.

Skip forward and Ford is the only domestic brand that is truly leading the field in innovation and technology.

Chrysler is struggling under foreign ownership and reliability issues and GM hasn't built a reliable, innovative automobile in more than 40 years.

At least we still have one domestic auto maker we can be proud of.

Go Ford!

[rkd350z]

Thank you for history lesson.

[igotgame1000]

Gas cars are a joke. Non progressive pieces of waste

[MrRonnieG]

Let me qualify EVERYTHING I am about to comment on by saying that my first car (1964) was a 1957 Chevy and that I have been a Chevy guy ever since. That having been said ~ the 427 SOHC hemi Ford is my all-time favorite motor. I watched Kalitta win Top Fuel @ the '67 Winternationals with his 427 Ford "cammer." The 7 litre (427 cubic inch) Ford was blowing its' nose on Ferrari AND Porsche at LeMans during the middle 60's and only Europe's ban on 7 litre motors ended Ford's domination.

[raginroadrunner]

Ford beat GM in overhead valve engines by about 15 years..look up the ford "GAA"......then you will know...

[YouGotsTheRabies]

Ford: If you can't join-em, beat-em!

[FTBoogie]

@vexviper Im not sure about that, but I do know that it was Ford basically building a "Ferrari Killer" after they failed at purchasing Ferrari in the mid 60s. It ended up dominating Lemans for several years.

[tittypuller13]

yes it did

[vexviper]

Awesome!! Did the Ford GT have some british engineering influence?