flathead v860

someone can tells me more about this engine,it's looks like a v8 60 ford ,a friend of mine tells me that it comes from little ford truck from 1948.....!
here's the pix




thanks

 

40 was the last year
tk

 

There is 17 bolts head so it is a V8 60
They were used on Ford (Simca) Vedette on the late 50's

 

You are from France so it are from a france made Ford

 

Yes absolutly 50s vedette
maby they used the engine in some
frech truck but transmission is
also Vedette probably the 84 hp
version can be 66 hp

Looked on the pics some more
its the older version with integrated
bellhousing came in the vedette
that look like a small 49-50 mercury
66 hp i think

 

I had two (Ford) Vedette engines and on on the left next to the intake manfold there is the engineno. and both started with * F 472 ......*

 

looking at the transmission and the pull rods I' guess it's not taken from an open drive car
so I'd say pre-war Matford (F472) rather than post-war Vedette
the F472 was continued under the SAF Ford brand post 1945 for some time and there was a commercial off this chassis

Vedette had four bolt (not three bolt) Solex carbs as far as I know

 

I dont think matford had that distributor
but not sure
iwe seen both 3 and 4 bolt vedette carbs

 

First ones came out as optional in 1937 Ford cars, the little V860, or the larger std. V8 85 (horsepower).-------Don

 

Front mount dist., exhaust manifolds, look like my Vedette engine. Can't see bottom of the block. For sure its not American.
Went back and looked, mine has freeze plug in each head. Had a 4 speed columm shift open drive. It was in a 59 Vedeette.

 

Yes deuce daddy i know the 37-40 werry well
but this engine is a French Ford.

Later Simca bougt the French Ford factory they made the
60 hp based engine i france to about 1960.

Then they continued the production in south
america, they even made them with hemi heads(120 hp)
as Chrysler...esplanada i think they was caled
around 66-67 i think it was