It was big news back in 1969 when Ford Motor Company unveiled a new V-8 for 1970. Although it featured the same displacement as another new V-8 introduced just one year prior, the 351 Cleveland was an all-new design, and its “big small-block” features, like canted valves and large-port heads, made it appealing to performance […]

Image courtesy oldcarbrochures.com The clamor for a Jeep-branded compact pickup nowadays – and especially since Jeep released the Gladiator concept truck a few years back – is high, and reasonably so. Full-size pickup trucks – even those from Japanese manufacturers – have ballooned to mammoth proportions,and compact pickups are fast becoming an extinct species. Meanwhile, […]

Looking forward to seeing the full length version of Brian Darwas‘s “Sweet Sickness,” his next look at the world of contemporary hot rodding, this time based on the integral role the flathead Ford V-8 has played in hot rodding from the very beginning. Points for interviewing flathead aficionado Paul Howard, as well as for getting […]