Richard Bartrop Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 http://www.vanpeltsales.com/FH_web/flathead_partsdrawings_links.htm A gold mine of reference material on flathead Ford V-8s and chassis parts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 EXCELLENT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MINIARE DELUXE Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 Thank You Great Find!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carsntrucks4you Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 Not only for reference. If you own a flathead this is the Company were you can get everything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afx Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 (edited) Mods: this should be pinned under the 1:1 Reference Photo forum. Edited July 20, 2020 by afx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeatMan Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 Thanks! I have two and I'm clueless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Bartrop Posted July 21, 2020 Author Share Posted July 21, 2020 (edited) 16 hours ago, afx said: Mods: this should be pinned under the 1:1 Reference Photo forum. Whatever works. I put it in the Links section because I thought the 1:1 Section was for reference pics that you took yourself. Edited July 21, 2020 by Richard Bartrop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 Watched this and found it both informative and interesting: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carsntrucks4you Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 Another great source is Van Pelts Flathead homepage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Bartrop Posted July 27, 2021 Author Share Posted July 27, 2021 1 hour ago, carsntrucks4you said: Another great source is Van Pelts Flathead homepage I totally agree. In fact, it's the site at the top of the page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carsntrucks4you Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 15 hours ago, Richard Bartrop said: I totally agree. In fact, it's the site at the top of the page. Not only for modellers also for owner of a Flathead engine like myself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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1930fordpickup Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 The above photos all are from the Early Ford V-8 Foundation Museum facebook page. The museum is in Auburn Indiana. 2181 Rotunda Drive, Auburn, IN 46706 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afx Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 That is an interesting setup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ea0863 Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 On 1/6/2019 at 11:19 AM, Richard Bartrop said: http://www.vanpeltsales.com/FH_web/flathead_partsdrawings_links.htm A gold mine of reference material on flathead Ford V-8s and chassis parts. Thank you Richard. I'm learning a lot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redzed Posted January 28, 2023 Share Posted January 28, 2023 nice post, i needed that-but here is a pic of a not so stock flathead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redzed Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 more flathead info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rattlecan Dan Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 Thank You Richard. I will be referring to this information continuously during my current 34 Ford(model)build. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W Humble Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 You can still drive one, too! New acquisition; '51 Crestliner (older restoration, pretty much rebuilt stock but: 12V and alternator, Pertronix conversion, Red's Headers and duals, Fatman/Shoebox Central f&r sway bars, etc.) My high-school '51's were Deluxe and Custom models, and lots of fun/ez to work on! Only 12 years old, then, and seemed ancient -- wierd, huh? Funny Ford did this elite trim model on the 2-dr. sedan body; club coupe was so much more sleek. Did anyone mention the Frank Oddo engine book on CA BIll's Automotive Handbooks? Good photos, esp of mod engines. Ole' Wick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
espo Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 17 minutes ago, W Humble said: You can still drive one, too! New acquisition; '51 Crestliner (older restoration, pretty much rebuilt stock but: 12V and alternator, Pertronix conversion, Red's Headers and duals, Fatman/Shoebox Central f&r sway bars, etc.) My high-school '51's were Deluxe and Custom models, and lots of fun/ez to work on! Only 12 years old, then, and seemed ancient -- wierd, huh? Funny Ford did this elite trim model on the 2-dr. sedan body; club coupe was so much more sleek. Did anyone mention the Frank Oddo engine book on CA BIll's Automotive Handbooks? Good photos, esp of mod engines. Ole' Wick I also owned a few '51 Fords in my youth and one in fact was this same color but a regular custom model. The story I was told long ago pertaining to your resent acquisition was that Ford had not yet developed their two-door hardtop and Chevrolet was selling a lot of their Bel Air hardtops at the time. The Crestliner you have was a stop gap, a very good looking one for sure, until they could work out the production issues on the hardtop that they did bring to market during the '51 model run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W Humble Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 That's the story, all right. The Victoria could have been created by Ford earlier, but they were selling everything but the plant fork lifts in 1949. The Vicky 2-door hardtop coupe was just a lid grafted onto the convertible body; all the ragtop hardware attachment holes are there! I love the look, but could never afford a Vicky; the club coupe was my best '51! Honduras Maroon Custom, black wheels with baby-moons, and wide w/w's -- all on the cheap for a college freshman with the draft hanging over his head. A year later, the Ford was wrecked (snowstorm, vs. '57 Dodge; I got the coupe back on the road, but the frame was tweaked; the Dodge never turn another wheel!) and I was back in a '55 Chevy B-A hardtop. The 'shoebox' (don't like that tag; we never called the 1949-51 cars that, back in the day) was fun, easy to fix, and the V-8 sounded 'real' even tho a Chevy six could give it a run for it's money. My actual first '51 Ford was a $50 rust-bucket 2-dr sedan from MI -- disassembled itself in a sideswipe collision -- not my fault. I did save the drive train, though, and it ran for another year in my coupe. GM and Chrysler figured out the convertible-to-hardtop gimmick right away; Ford hesitated with the Crestliner, a name that lasted as a top-line model until the Fairlane was introduced in '55. I'm pretty ancient, obviously, and I swear I never beheld a Crestliner until I started going to car shows and swaps. I have a decal sheet for a Crestliner, origin unknown, that includes the lower paint portion of the cove, but ivory white. The only Crestliner kit bodies I'm aware of were resin creations, right? I made a model of my club coupe for nostalgia sake, along with my first car, a '55 Chevy Delray post hotrod (c'mon, lakes pipes?!), and my old love, the '65 Pontiac Tempest Custom hardtop (326/stick) which I had to sell when the draft finally caught up with me! I'm sure Ford might have been more motivated to do a true hardtop if they could have amortized the tooling against both Ford and Mercury, but oc Merc was the little Lincoln body mate until '52. The '52-54 cars are nice enough and tasteful, but neither has the panache of the '49-51 bodies for either, I M Humble O! The '51's were a mixed blessing, but I was prompted to buy this C-liner bec of a comment my younger bros made at our last family reunion: "We sure had a lot of fun in your Ford!" True; but now I wonder what they did in it!! For some good teenage adventures with lots of danger, rock n' roll, and cars, read A PLACE ON MARS series on Kindle, by yours truly. :-<) [Not Sci-Fi] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoMoCo66 Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 (edited) This might be off topic so I will take it down if needed. A flathead in a camaro!? Some oddball thing I found well surfing the web. This automatically made me laugh (it would be even funnier if this was a big block car). Edited February 11 by FoMoCo66 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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