I know what you mean Vortek about the flatties. I had a 41 ford truck with a 53 merc flathead and at first it was stock and had alot of fun with it. Then the oil burning started(over 80,000 miles on it) and decided to do some minor engine building. Had it bored .040 added a 3'4 cam with dual 97's and then worked on the body and channeled it about 4" and cut the box back 12" , put open driveshafts along the cab for exhaust and a 55 gallon drum in back for gas(never had enough to put more than a $1:00 worth) back in the early 60's gas was 28-30 cents/gal, primed the whole truck with gray primer from about a dozen cans(would have to touch it up every week incase some rust spots came through, and had a hot little truck back then which really moved out. Gotta love those flatties