The Ford Motor Company has branches in many countries with distinct product lines and in the past that also included France. Here they merged with the French company Mathis under the name Matford and one of their later models became the Matford Vedette with the 60 hp Ford Flathead V8. In the beginning of the fifties Simca bought it all, so an almost identical Simca Vedette came the following year. It's an odd end that Simca made the Vedette for several years, and the very last of them were made in Brazil in the early seventies after Chrysler had taken over Simca. So the last of these legendary Ford flathead V8 engines for civilian use were made by the rival Chrysler in Brazil!
Long story short, Chrysler made the last Ford Flathead V8s.
P.G.
