Don’t listen to him! Trust me girls, we can get 142 bhp @ 7,600 rpm out of this V8 ’60’ Flattie on methanol!…
The chief mechanic trying to reassure her team she can take on Doug Whiteford’s Ford V8 Special ‘Black Bess’ post-war with a combination of Edelbrock manifold, two Stromberg 2-barrel carbs, Offy heads, Jahns pistons to suit the .030 overbore, a Claysmith crank and Isky cam. Not to forget the hand fabricated extractors.
The first shot was taken during World War 2 at Ford’s Geelong factory in Victoria, Australia. The ladies of the Womens Emergency League, VAD Transport Services and Red Cross are learning how to maintain a Ford V8.
I am interested to know exactly which variant of the venerable Ford Flathead V8 this is, and the car to which it is fitted!
Henry Ford and his ‘flathead’ V8 creation in 1932 (FoMoCo)
Credit…
State Libraries of Victoria/South Australia, FoMoCo
Tailpiece: Doug Whiteford’s ‘Black Bess’ leads the ‘Woodside Handicap’ at Woodside, South Australia on 10 October 1949…
(SLSA)
Click here for an article about Doug Whiteford’s 1950 Australian Grand Prix winning Ford V8 Spl ‘Black Bess’;
https://primotipo.com/2015/05/05/doug-whiteford-black-bess-woodside-south-australia-1949/
Finito…
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