Parts Price List V-8 and 4-Cylinder Cars 1928-1932

San Francisco, CA: Polyprints. Very Good. 0. Reprint. Stapled wraps. This is a trade paperback book with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The covers have sunning to the spine, spine joints and edges. The text pages are clean and bright. This is a reprint of the original - not exactly a facsimile edition, but close. "The Ford flathead V8 (often called simply the Ford flathead, flathead Ford, or flatty when the context is implicit, such as in hot-rodding) is a V8 engine with a flat cylinder head designed by the Ford Motor Company and built by Ford and various licensees. During the engine's first decade of production, when overhead-valve engines were used by only a small minority of makes, it was usually known simply as the Ford V-8, and the first car model in which it was installed, the Model 18, was (and still is) often called simply the "Ford V-8", after its new engine. Although the V8 configuration was not new when the Ford V8 was introduced in 1932, the latter was a market first in the respect that it made an 8-cylinder affordable and a V engine affordable to the emerging mass market consumer for the first time. It was the first independently designed and built V8 engine produced by Ford for mass production, and it ranks as one of the company's most important developments. A fascination with ever-more-powerful engines was perhaps the most salient aspect of the American car and truck market for a half century, from 1923 until 1973." (from Wikipedia) .