About 30 years ago, a neighbor buddy had a '~'35 rumble seat convertible, all steel, plain dark green, total stock V8 club winner....:surrender: tough to find much of that activity anymore...they all have OHV engines today....
The Ford flathead V8 was licensed to other producers. It was used by Simca in France until 1961 and in Brazil until 1964 for cars and until 1990 in the Simca Unic Marmon Bocquet military truck.[4] In the United States, the flathead V8 was replaced by the more modern overhead-valve Ford Y-block engine in 1954.
Today there are companies that reproduce or rebuild them to fill the needs of street rodders and vintage car restorers.
I have always liked them from the 1940 Ford pickup I drove when I was 19.