Thread: Flathead V6

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Please help!! I have read a few posts here ( Club Rod ) as well
as seen a few cause for sale ( plymouths ) stating the engine
as being a "Flathead V6"..Is this bigfoot!! a Unicorn?? or what??
Do/did they ever exist?

Never existed, Mopar had flathead inline 6's but no V6's, no V6's at all in that time period.

Ford had the small version of the flathead, the V-60, from 37-40 or 41, but it was 8 cylinders. Just 2/3 the size of their regular V-8. Interestingly I found out recently that it was continued in production until around 1956, with quite a few improvements, powering Simcas. It was manufactured in France and/or Brazil. In 1957 or 58 when Chrysler bought into Simca they gave the little V-60 an overhead valve hemi conversion. These were cool looking little motors.