• Professionally assembled in the USA • Modern 5.0-litre Ford V8 engine • Five-speed manual transmission • Circa 6,300 miles from new • Possibly the only one of its kind registered in the UK Without doubt the car that sparked the post-WWII hot-rod boom was Ford's ubiquitous V8 of pre-war days.

Rugged and tunable, the immortal 'flathead' motor would remained the hot-rodder's choice and undisputed king of both road and track until deposed by the small-block Chevy in the mid 1950s.

Defined by Ken Gross as "a car that's been stripped down, souped up and made to go much faster" (8 Heroes of American Hot Rodding), hot-rods first appeared in the late 1930s in Southern California where they were raced on dried-up lake beds.

Engine swaps were a popular way to achieve increased performance, typically involving the shoehorning of a larger-than-standard motor into a chassis it was never intended for, a practice that remains popular today.

Offered here is a 21st Century take on the perennially ...