While many run-of-the-mill Ford 427s used the standard Top-Oiler FE blocks, the 427 SOHC used a Side-Oiler FE block designed in 1965. From the engine's name, you might guess that the 427 SOHC is a ...

And that’s exactly what Ford did when it released the 1966 Fairlane 500 427. Blue Oval’s fabled ... the mid-size brawlers with the trusty Side Oiler and announced a lightweight variant for ...

Harr Ford bought a factory Dragonsnake two years later, this one with a side-oiler, 12.5:1-compression Ford 427 engine, ...

See All 23 Photos The famed Essex Wire 1965 427 Competition ... it was green with white side stripes but dropped to third overall in A Production. For 1973, renowned Ford engine tuner Al Joniec ...

Under the hood is Ford’s thundering 427-cubic-inch big-block, side-oiler V-8. The simple, no-frills racing livery was limited to just a single Raven Black stripe with orange borders and “Essex ...