90 Years in 16 Minutes: Henry Ford's Forged Letter and the V8 Engine | John Dillinger

90 Years in 16 Minutes: Henry Ford's Forged Letter and the V8 Engine | John Dillinger In 1934, Ford Motor Company received a handwritten letter — allegedly signed by John Dillinger, America's most wanted man — praising the Ford V8 as the ultimate getaway car. Ford used it for decades as marketing gold. V8 Engine / John Dillinger There's just one problem: federal handwriting experts concluded the signature was a forgery. And buried deep in Henry Ford's FBI files was a second, more incriminating letter — one Ford clearly didn't want the public to find. V8 Engine / John Dillinger This video digs into the full story: how a desperate Henry Ford bet everything on a revolutionary V8 engine during the Great Depression, how that same engine became the weapon of choice for Dillinger, Bonnie & Clyde, and the most dangerous criminals of the era, and how Ford quietly buried the truth and promoted a fake letter to build one of the most powerful brand mythologies in automotive history. / John Dillinger From the Crown Point jailbreak to the Biograph Theater ambush, from a wooden gun carved in a jail cell to a stolen police car that sold for $150,000 in 2023 — this is the real story of the Ford flathead V8. The parts Detroit hoped you'd never find. V8 Engine 20 Tags: Ford V8, John Dillinger, Ford flathead V8, Great Depression cars, automotive history, Henry Ford, 1932 Ford V8, gangster history, Bonnie and Clyde, Crown Point jailbreak, FBI history, J Edgar Hoover, vintage Ford, getaway car, American history, car history documentary, Ford marketing scandal, 1930s America, classic American cars, muscle car history, V8 engine