I was born in the WRONG time in history. Would have been an Amazing time to be an American, SO FREE!!! It is So so sad seeing our beloved America being absolutely gutted by scum.😔
Ford was never in the same "game" as Chevrolet because everything Chevy did made it the "anti-Ford". EVERY Chevrolet engine ever produced began as a "truck engine" first and a car engine second. That's still the case today for Chevy "proprietary" engines. Every Chevrolet engine was OHV with distributor ignition and a pressurized fuel system with a mechanical pump. Every Chevrolet engine was "high compression" and "high speed". Every Chevrolet had electric starting and lights as standard equipment. Every Chevrolet had a "live" rear axle and front axle. Every Chevrolet had "juice brakes" as well as hydraulic shock absorbers. Chevy wanted "more cylinders" because its trucks - not cars - had "outgrown" the "Chevy 4" that was essentially unchanged from "day 1" while Ford flathead 4-cylinders went through many "generations" during those "20 million Fords". And Chevy had "been there and done that" with a MODERN OHV DISTRIBUTOR IGNITION DOWNDRAFT-CARBURETED PRESSURIZED COOLING SYSTEM V8 "RUNABOUT" IN 1915. IN MASS PRODUCTION BEFORE THE "WAR EFFORT" - WHICH WAS KIND OF IMPORTANT TO "1ST GENERATION AMERICAN" LOUIS CHEVROLET - PUSHED CHEVROLET TO "SHUT DOWN" CIVILIAN VEHICLE PRODUCTION AND START PRODUCING "MILITARY" VEHICLES AND COMPONENTS. "POST-WAR" THERE WAS NO "MARKET" FOR WHAT WAS BY THEN AN "OBSOLETE" V8 AND ONE THAT COST FAR MORE THAN "TWO FOUR CYLINDERS SHARING A CRANKSHAFT" TO PRODUCE. BECAUSE A V8 IS THE FARTHEST THING FROM "TWO FOUR CYLINDERS SHARING A CRANKSHAFT" AND CHEVY KNEW THAT ON "DAY ONE:. HENRY FORD DIED NOT KNOWING THAT AND WENT "BROKE" TRYING TO PROVE OTHERWISE TO THE "AUTO INDUSTRY" AND THE "COMPETITION". JUST LIKE HE "WENT BROKE" TRYING TO "COMPETE" WITH FLATHEAD FOURS AND THREE "GENERATIONS" OF THEM IN THE MODEL A ALONE. WHICH WAS THE REAL REASON HE "SHUT DOWN" 80% OF "HIS" PLANTS AND SEVERAL OTHERS WERE "SHUT DOWN" BEFORE THEY EVER MADE A SINGLE "AUTO". HE RAN OUT OF OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY ADMITTEDLY SELLING VEHICLES "AT A LOSS" AND HAD TO "INVEST" HIS VAST "PERSONAL FORTUNE" IN HIS NEW "INVENTION" FLATHEAD V8. WHICH ALSO EVENTUALLY WENT THROUGH SEVERAL "GENERATIONS" AND THE FIRST "GENERATION" - THE "V8-60" FOR "60 HORSEPOWER" WAS "RETIRED WITHIN TWO OR THREE "YEARS" AFTER "INTRODUCTION" WHICH HAPPENED TO BE IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE "CHEVY 6" BECAME THE STANDARD ENGINE IN ALL CHEVROLETS AND THE "CHEVY 4" WAS COMPLETELY "RETIRED" OTHER THAN "SERVICE REPLACEMENT ENGINES". CHEVY'S FOUR-CYLINDER ENGINES MADE AN HONEST 10 HP PER CYLINDER REGARDLESS OF FUEL, ALTITUDE OR "CLIMATE" FROM THE FACTORY AND GOT "STRONGER" WITH BREAK-IN. THE 6S HAD "MORE POWER" PER CYLINDER BUT "SMOOTHNESS" WAS THE MAJOR IMPROVEMENT AND THEY "PULLED" FAR HARDER AND LONGER THAN THE FOUR-CYLINDER "PLUS TWO CYLINDERS". AND OF COURSE 6S ARE "PERFECTLY BALANCED" OF COURSE. OHV SIXES THAT IS. FLATHEAD 6S WITH LESS VALVETRAIN "COUNTERBALANCE" NOT SO MUCH. THE FORD "V8-60" WHICH WAS THE STANDARD ENGINE IN FORD "RUNABOUTS" COULD BARELY "OUTRUN" AN "OBSOLETE" CHEVY 4 IN THE "LOW PRICE CLASS" AND IT TOOK A FEW YEARS FOR THE 6 TO FULLY "REPLACE" THE 4 ACROSS ALL CHEVY VEHICLES - WHICH WAS 100% THE PLAN FROM "DAY ONE" IN PART BECAUSE CHEVY ALREADY HAD THE "SALES LEAD" AND WAS INVESTING IN A FULL-SERVICE DEALER NETWORK INSTEAD OF JUST HAVING "AGENTS" LIKE FORD AND WAS FOCUSING 100 ON PRIVATE BUYERS AND ALSO FINANCED DEALERS AND CUSTOMERS WHILE FORD SOLD "AT A LOSS" OVERWHELMINGLY TO "GOVERNMENT AGENCIES" AND WAS 100% "COD". ONCE IT BECAME CLEAR THE CHEVY 6 WAS GOING TO BE ALL THE "COMPETITION" AND THE ENGINE HAD "WAY MORE LEFT IN IT" AND V8-60S OBVIOUSLY HAD. NOWHERE TWICE AS MUCH "POWER" AS THE MODEL A 4-CYLINDER MUCH LESS THE "MODEL B" AND "MODEL C" FORD HAD TO "DEVELOP" TO "KEEP UP WITH THE COMPETITION" STILL ALSO RUNNING FLAT 4S, HENRY HAD TO "INVENT" ANOTHER "FORD V8" THAT WASN'T TWO FOUR CYLINDERS SHARING A WATER PUMP AS WELL AS A CRANKCASE.AND THE CAM-DRIVEN "DISTRIBUTOR" HAD TO GO. AND IT NEEDED ANOTHER MAIN BEARING. AND MORE DISPLACEMENT. AND COMPRESSION. AND A 2-BARREL CARB AND "DUAL PLANE" INTAKE MANIFOLD. AND MORE HEAD STUDS. AND...THE LIST GOES ON AND ON. AND OF COURSE BY THEN HENRY HAD MOVED ON TO OTHER "BRILLIANT PLANS" AND PRETTY MUCH DUMPED "REINVENTING" THE "FORD V8" ON HIS IN-HOUSE TRAINED "ENGINEERS" AND LEFT THEM WITH THE ORIGINAL CASE OF HAVING TO POLISH A TURD AND MAKE THE "2ND GENERATION" FORD V8 EVERYTHING THE ORIGINAL WAS PROMISED TO BE. AND THEN SOME SINCE ALL THE "COMPETITION" AT CHEVY WAS "UNDERRATED" AND "DETUNED" OHV 6-CYLINDERS IN ALL CHEVYS "RUNABOUT" TO MEDIUM-DUTY 1.5-TON "FARM TRUCKS" FORD HAD NOTHING TO "COMPETE WITH" BESIDES FORD"AA" TRUCKS FORD HADN'T "UPGRADED" WITH V8S.
Fantastic video, thanks for sharing. Amazing quantity of tech breakthroughs for the time, setting out pretty much the template for the next eighty years.
YEAH people think EINSTIEN greatest genius of 20 century... it was FORD ... HE just started with a 2cyi. engine in 1890... built one of the biggest car factory of the world... Next to USS. STEEL;( and the GOV. gonna sell it to JAPAN... WTF!!!!) And the first ONE to build a single V8 Engine Block; and the Grandfather of MFG. /INDUSTRIAL ENG.....
Ok, I'm sold, I want one, built by these guys. A top trim 4dr please, colour can be "dealer's choice". Rhd ofc & I'll fit aftermarket rubber. 🎉 Thanks. 🇦🇺
I came across an industry record showing that Henry was so obsessed with the one piece V8 that he came close to bankrupting his company in his struggle for production. It also stated that at one point he owned interest in the manufacture of every part used in his car. Iron mines, steel mills, railroads, rubber plants, Everything.
Ford would be great to back to the good Old days not the high tech car with little or no customer support team after your signature is ony the form is now you're problem
As I recall Mr Ford was told by his engineers a V8 couldn't be done and he stuck with it regardless goes to show what can be done if you believe in what you're doing!!!!
Ford began marketing a v8 in '32 but they sure as hell didn't invent it as your headline says. The earliest v8 engine that I am aware of was made in 1908 for a series of racing cars. It's also true that Chevrolet made one in 1917 as a concept car but then decided to stick with the straight 6 as it was more powerful than the average 4 cylinder engines that most other cars were using.
Wait wait wait!?!? I thought it didn't get hot back then, I thought it only got hot today because of climate change. You telling me it got up to 110° back then too?
It seems like almost everything was an option on a ‘54 Ford. Even turn signals were still optional. Evidently, my mom drove a 2 door, V8 in maroon. I wouldn’t be born for another 3 years.
I had a 1981 VW Scirocco. I truly loved that car. It was the best driving car I have ever owned. I am presently driving a VW Jetta Sportwagen. I like it lots. I have been driving, repairing, and modifying VW's since my family bought a Beetle in 1963. The Scirocco had an AC problem from brand new. The thing you learn about VW is you will have at least one problem from the start. You don't know what the problem will be, but there will be a problem. The Scirocco AC was controlled by a crazy system of levers and wires. Supposedly, the temperature would be controlled by this Mickey Mouse system. After 2 visits to the dealer, I decided I had enough. Went into dash and was shocked at what I saw. This Rube Godberg system would not stay in alignment. I went back to the parts counter at the VW dealer and got a lighted switch that matched the other rocker switches in the car. I bypassed the microswitch that controller the compressor clutch. So I ended up with a "desert only" AC system. Even though I usually had high humidity, I never had a problem.
43:53 radio cruiser parade narrator says it's in Detroit it's actually in Dearborn Mi at Michigan and Schaefer, building is still there. I think some of the footage is around Greenfield Village.
Notice they mentioned the straight six engine had 95HP, but they didn’t mention the HP of the V8? That’s because the bigger V8 had 95HP, only 5HP more then the “economy” six. Ford would finally replace the Aging flathead V8 with a new overhead valve “Y Block” V8 in 1954.
Take it from a Ford guy, sure those were good times, 👍 but don't expect to get by today with old technology, that's just the way it is now, I drive my 98l Lincoln Town car Cartier edition once a month 😀 a blast from the past unfortunately the V8 is good for racing life's a gas at 6 bucks a gallon ,those were the days, in 1964 my dad filled the tank in his Lincoln for 18 cents a gallon in Anaheim California 2 bucks went a long way Disneyland was only 3 miles away 😀 👍
you can't stop the American dream. That's something only a generation can do to itself. And we've been witnessing that since the 60s with the last three generations. They offer no future. They just walk around crying like babies. If America had to depend on the Genzie millennial 1960s generation, we still be sitting in the mud farting. I even have a proof of that. see the LIFE magazine cover emulating Woodstock that entire generation was sitting in the mud like pigs, stoned, high and laughing. That picture is a perfect representation of these present last three generations they don't build they don't they just destroy. Sorry 60s generation millennial generation and Genzie generation.you're a Moot generation that will be replaced. Thank you God for giving Americans short lifespans. We won't have to put up with this shit much longer.
