As the Depression-ravaged 1930s drew to a close, Ford Motor Company offered its best cars ever, but sales lagged behind Chevrolet. Ford's powerful flathead V8s were plagued with cooling and vaporlock ...

Back in the 1950s a teenager couldn't go wrong with a flathead V-8 Ford. Dave Blum drove a very well worn 1939 Ford to high school, though he would much rather have had a Deluxe convertible coupe.

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