> asked if I liked MGs? I said I did and he led me to a corner of the shop
> where he had a '20s or '30s Ford flathead V8 with an MG octogon on it.
> Around the perimeter of the octogon read something like "Made by Ford for
> the Morris Garages Car Company, 192*." Does anyone know anything about
> these? Did MG make a car with a V8 before the BGT V8 of the '70s?
>
This would be interesting since the first US Ford (flathead) V8
wasn't introduced in this country until the mid '30s (1934 perhaps?)
Hard to believe Ford would have been manufacturing V8s for MGs and
putting flathead 4s in there own production cars, i.e., Model Ts.
Roland
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