A Sweet Sickness: The Flathead Movie | Documentary | Full Movie | The Ford Hot Rod

[@trevorcalhoun4530]

The best sounding engine ever made!

[@misterhipster9509]

That's subjective @ best.

[@jarvislarson6864]

Unique yes,best hardly

[@RalphSampson...]

@@jarvislarson6864 I guess depends on what you like. If you like a loud obnoxious 427 Side Oiler well, the flattie isn't for you. Personally, I love both. I have a bone stock flattie in my '53 F100. My brother has the 427 side Oiler in his '65 F100. They are both great. What I HATE are these kid's Japanese cars that sound like bumble bees in a can and loud as Hell. Oh, wait...Also I can't stand the guys with the loud as Hell new Mustangs and Chargers. "Let's see how loud can I make it"? Yeah, I'm old...58 YO. "Now, get off my lawn"!

[@BillyG869]

I’m 77 and I started tearing into Flatheads when I was 12 years old. I know or know of most of these guys. These guys are the core of true Hot Rodding. I live about 20 minutes from Vern Tardell’s Shop, but there are so many guys around the country still going strong. God Bless all those who are no longer with us…

[@speedfreak8200]

Why did God kill them good people and not the bad ones..he likes to make us hurt

[@beeenn649]

@@speedfreak8200 Why don't you lay off your anti-religion crap?

[@misterhipster9509]

Interesting. I'm a year younger, hung with older car guys from pre teen years, learned right away flattys don't have any top end power. Great movie but I'm a fan of the Big Block Chevy, and the 385 Ford is pretty good too.

[@middleclassretiree]

@@misterhipster9509it’s funny how each generation or even a closer age grouping can differ so much on engine preferences I started messing with engines during the energy crisis so I am an early fan of turbocharged inline 4 cylinder engines and we get no respect until race day and I show the big blocks a set of tail lights 😂😂

[@misterhipster9509]

@@middleclassretiree You are aware that many boost their big blocks, right?

[@brianhdueck3372]

A blast from the past. Love to keep the hot rod tradition alive. Great movie with cool cars

[@robertwells6454]

Blown Flathead is the ultimate Hot Rod IMO. Flatheads Forever! 🤟😎

[@susyforfa]

Thank you. My husband found this Easter Sunday. Wonderful

[@freddog5218]

love them flatheads first car 49 merc in 1960 then 47 ford vert. 53 merc Monterey 60 years later I have 27 t coupe with 53 merc 2/4 race vintage aluminum heads two 2s and lots of old Mooneys stuff. I'm 80 and still love can't wait for spring.

[@lelandrogers1078]

I enjoyed watching this movie. I helped my cousin rebuild the Mercury flathead in his '41 Ford when I was in junior high school. It was stock, but loads of fun. I was amused how everyone in the movie called them motors. I was taught that motors ran on electricity and engines ran on fuel.

[@Mr-er6fg]

Detroit is Motor City. Not engine town.

[@middleclassretiree]

I had to chuckle when the first scene was someone beating on a ford with a hammer 😂😂😂

[@Hotrodford]

Agreed. Engines run on fuel and motors run on electricity that’s always been the correct description.

[@Hotrodford]

I could do without the stupid music.

[@chaseman113]

I mean… Mercury Outboard Motors, and Mercury Engines both being similar ,but different things. Certainly makes the terminology funny.

[@dandahermitseals5582]

Im 80 and grew up with these motors and cars and Harleys n Indians Dandahermit

[@michaelmeuser7763]

When I was in the salvage business I used to do a lot of farm cleanups. One of my best finds was a lincoln v16 motor. 2 flathead v8s connected. Got a pretty penny for that.

[@Charles-qq7vf]

I can't believe it's been out this many years andI've never seen this!!! Awesome stuff, and great music,too.

[@dougwebb6193]

I met this guy that made this documentary at a car show and bought a CD from him when it first came out he was a really good guy for sure and I think you did a really good job on this documentary

[@Mercmad]

When I was running my Flattie ,no one else was interested in them any more ,because it was all SBC's. Mine was a grenade,3/8 x 3/8 bored (!) and stroked with a Isky cam ,triple twos and a 36 straight cut gears trans. Great fun when your're 19 and invincible.

[@malakiblunt]

"my most favourite explosion - im pretty proud of this" - LEGEND

[@michaelmeuser7763]

I had a 53 ford coupe with a flathead. Also a 62 ford pu with flathead. 54 was the first year of overhead valve engines. Loved my flatheads.

[@discerningmind]

I enjoyed this from the moment it started and right through the ending credits. I could have watched two more hours of it. All of these guys are excellent. I learned things about the flathead Ford that I never knew.

[@jempoof]

The good thing back then was everyone dragging was running the ford flathead pretty much, so any little improvements you could find won you the race.

[@dennisjanes1611]

Thank you for making this available! It is awesome!

[@ervingoertzen7233]

Wow ! I just love nostalgia the early Ford flathead’s forever

[@timken4648]

FANTASTIC ! I myself have a 37 Ford 2 1/2 truck stored in a barn here in Brazil

[@Harley.Davidson]

Nothing sounds like a full house flathead! 😎

[@gregskelton2505]

So cool. Always been my favorite V 8

[@andrewlevine8816]

Brilliant. Oh to have people with knowledge near by. I just have to read books and have ago.

[@gurneyforpresident2836]

My kind of movie! Thanks for doing this.

[@HLife719]

Great video! Thanks for making and posting it.

[@Satellite-Man_521]

Man its awesome to see someone from Massachusetts lol

[@jasonbrown7258]

What's interesting is that these car's with just a few modern upgrades are fully capable of running right along with modern traffic on a daily basis without all the big tech and still cheaper to maintain.

[@chaseman113]

That flathead sound is wonderful, despite the sound being a result of a design compromise. Still wicked!

[@speedfreak8200]

32's are sweet, but my fave has always been 33' - 34' Ford Coupes. I thought the Main Cap Bolts were supposed to be dipped in motor oil before being torqued. Thanks,and keep them coming

[@mrkeopele]

that was a good film for me... i never built or ran a flathead, they seem real nice. thank you.

[@bradobrien3737]

Thank you for uploading this.. awesome.. wow

[@ez6301]

Awesome, I was looking for this movie, so time ago. Thank you man!

[@JDWorkshop-wn9tt]

Great film!

[@windhund1989]

Great!!!! Thank you❤

[@timvandenbrink4461]

I’m currently restoring a 1950 Ford F1 with my son.

[@track1219]

The flatheads I work on are only one cylinder; Briggs and Stratton, Tecumseh, etc!

[@Mach1bud]

Awesome movie. I liked the music.

[@mikakari9498]

Great document! 👍

[@peterstraub567]

A great film! Thanks!

[@knutbkristiansen]

Awesome film

[@markmccabe934]

I always loved the Looks and sound of the Flatheads but I was longing for more horsepower so then I was the guy tearing the flatheads out of Hotrods in favor of any engine with overhead valves SBCs... Y Blocks... Cadillacs... Oldsmobile's and DeSoto's. Now that I'm nearing 67 I went back to the simplicity and the sound of Fatheads! So now I have a 47 flathead powered T Roadster I helped a friend build 30 plus years ago... go figure.... I went full circle!

[@UncaDave]

I had a flathead 1939 9N Ford tractor. Sadly sold it 5 years ago but the new owner loves it, takes good care of it and it is still running fine, mowing his fields. Solid engine! Yes, have to find another one! 😅

[@robertwells6454]

Love the Music. 🤟😎

[@carlyleporter5388]

Damn professional well done video. Hope you'all make some money off it.

[@dougwiest9318]

THANKS FOR THE GREAT VIDEO!!!

[@jimburig7064]

Thought I'd get a good look at the valves of an Ardun head so I tuned in.

[@TheEZGZ]

Nothing like the sound of a flathead V8 with a pair of smitty's mufflers...👍

[@huskerite2]

The old Chevy 216 Stovebolts were generally better starting engines in cold weather that flathead V8's. Compression difference was a key.

[@jack002tuber]

I thought I'd heard of a head that converts these to overhead valves? Is that right?

[@slick-px4pq]

Ardun

[@helpfullhand-ub3hc]

Well done

[@BKbellytank]

Great tech!

[@thekillercapricorn6334]

Very cool. 👍👍👍

[@bodarville2510]

I REALLY want to know about the cam in Ryan Cochran’s ‘30 at the 19:20 mark. Don’t need a radio in a rod like that!

[@shadetreemechanicracing22]

I've been collecting parts and next year I'm building one.

[@Timothy-lb2vr]

I’m 80 years old❤. My first car was a 1931 ford coup. I paid $50.00. I bought it from a lady whose husband worked for Southern pacific railroad and had been killed

[@davidmiller3263]

Bad ass!

[@johnperun232]

Very Impressive at the Footage Thanx For Sharing Your Experience with the Family of Flatheads, All the Great Videos and Content of your Friends and Family of the Dedicated People who want to not see The Iconic Flathead Continue to be a Great place Have a Great Day 👍 God Bless America 🇺🇸🙏🇺🇸 And all the Great 👍

[@atleeriksen8514]

Great video about the greatest engine ever!! Too bad you used copyrighted music scores so they where muted.

[@papasmodelcarroom8450]

I've only seen this movie/documentary 4 times and this probably won't be the last....lol

[@nzsaltflatsracer8054]

Cool! This was obviously filmed a few years ago.

[@barryobler9491]

Says 2011 in the credits

[@jempoof]

I had the Mercury one with the extra headbolts.

[@amoruzz]

Love it! Whose the Punk band? 👍👍

[@paulbriggs3072]

Did not know the blocks were still being cast somewhere and that you could still build them from aftermarket parts.

[@Wayne-Kj]

Loved the video but the volume of music was very annoying. Thanks for making it, although it should be about the flatheads and their fans, not the music.

[@SanDiego_VDubLife]

I know nothing about these engines or traditions but it is so cool. Growing up in America I’ve always loved the hot rod scene but have never got into it. But the 40s and 50s style is iconic Americana and has stayed cool after all these years. It’s funny because Chicanos chose to go in the opposite direction with low and slow cars. I wonder if race had anything to do with why Chicanos chose the opposite of what White hot rodders were doing?

[@rodneygolden2796]

Where and from what is that ominous opening footage from??? Again a cool doomsday feel of what's sometimes called a Fascinating Horror by now on KZbin. There's a channel called that actually. Cool.

[@edwardwerick2420]

Lots of great info this video. I had to turn the volume down to almost nothing before I could stand it. I would have much rather heard the sounds of good running flatheads than that head banger shit.

[@AcidGambit419]

That's punk rock not even close lol

[@davidholmes6333]

Who chose the "music" for this thing??

[@Schlipperschlopper]

Leider werden bald alle Verbrennerautos in der EU und den USA verboten! In Frankreich gibt es ein neues Verbotsgesetz für Verbrennungsmotoren namens SCHLABOUBVE und in der Schweiz das HESCHLAVVO-Gesetz!

[@enriquelopez9124]

When you think of the engines how they went from flathead to computerized now you have have a computer degree in order to work on those engines that have all kinds of sensors not like when those flathead were popular.

[@williamcarey6592]

I’m 78 and have had early Fords for 60 years. I drive a 39 Deluxe coupe that I have had for 57 years now. I never has a flathead driver why because I could build a SBC for a lot less and go faster.

[@landiahillfarm6590]

too bad these old rods have become pretty much "unobtanium" for your average joe [cost wise]

[@jimronayne1719]

Really enjoyed this, but the music seems so out of place.

[@streetk14]

I’ve always thought punk rock and hot rodding go together well. But maybe that’s just me.

[@rodneygolden2796]

Ultra cool opening footage of the industrial 'Frankenstein' behemoth known as the American auto manu- factory complex in the USA, and industries in general if you ask me. Hello to some causes of the global warming we are at the door of horror of today. In less than 200 years we have bent and dented our planet's character.

[@Mr-er6fg]

Calm down. Enjoy.

[@altacat9702]

: )

[@stevephillips1867]

I don't think anyone but congress can change our money system.

[@JimErvin-i8s]

Great information but the music is just all wrong, coming from a guy who knows rockabilly.

[@rosssuderno1290]

GREAT GREAT movie, TERRIBLE MUSIC. I'm 75 and don't dig people screaming at me. I muted most of the movie.......too bad. Maybe make an adult version.

[@davidday4443]

i believe that your intentions were sincere id rather hear the flathead on a rpm/torque test thats music to me i know it takes work to get a guitar to do what you want it to do so kudos but that is not why im here my taste in music is so much different than yours no longer interested in your vid heavy metal is all to do with weight under the hood ...cheers

[@northstar32v8]

Do Hot Roders actually like overly loud, irritating music? - Or do you purposely intend to force them to adjust the volume in case you have something worthwhile to say? - OR do you want to FORCE us away from your channel ? - Bye, bye

[@Baker504]

Awe! Bye bye 👋🏻🤡

[@jimenz6548]

You just have to ruin a great film with that LOUD HEADBANG music.....REALLY!!!!!

[@Baker504]

Awe !

[@claycoates5056]

TOO MANY ADDS

[@BKbellytank]

Thata not rock music! its carp

[@Mr-er6fg]

Carp is a fish. Not a desirable one, either!

[@Baker504]

@@Mr-er6fg 😂

[@slowlearner984]

Amazing to see such terrible designs last so long and do so well. Rather like the BMC A series I guess.

[@tracylemme1375]

Never had a flathead,but have had several Sprites and Midgets. I must be a gluten for punishment. But were they ever fun.

[@jenniferwagner-rl6sr]

Music on this video is lousy

[@timothylines631]

EDSOL would love it. he died 1944.

[@joseruiztagle7628]

Tengo un Ford coupe Convertible 1938, lo vendo en 10.000 dolares un regalo recibos oferta prudentes. Jose

[@claycoates5056]

TOO MANY ADDs