now providing a temporary bunk for my friend’s bitchin’ 29 Model A phaeton project at Dave’s Shelter For Homeless Hot Rods 
when complete will look something like this
A comment made of ignorance and prejudice. Small block Chevys have been dropped in Ford hot rods for as long as there've been small block Chevys (1955), and no true hot rodder has any objection to this practice
historically, prior to 1955 or so, hot rod Fords ran hopped up flathead V8s and 4 bangers; very cool, but difficult and expensive to squeeze more than 150 hp out of one. The have tendency to overheat, especially with high compression heads.
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after '55 or so it became common practice (see car magazines of the time) to replace flatheads in Ford hot rods with the new OHV engines from Detroit- Chevy, Olds, Buick, Cadillac, Chrysler, DeSoto, even Studebaker OHVs
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Oddly, neither the "Y block" Ford OHV V8 (new in 1954) nor the big block Ford FE (new in 1958) were often chosen as a hot rod engine, due to weight and lack of aftermarket speed equipment.
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The small block Ford (260/289/302/351) is a dandy hot rod engine but didn't appear till early 60s, and didn't show up in hot rods till mid-late 60s. As a result, if you're building a 50s style hot rod, it's far more period correct to use a SB Chevy than a SB Ford.
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For my money, the coolest 1950s SBC-powered Ford hot rod was Duffy Livingstone's 'Eliminator,' a Model T roadster with a beefed up Chevy 283 that regularly smoked brand new Ferarris on road courses
that's the spirit of hot rodding distilled: one guy with a garage, ingenuity, ambition, and a pile of junk parts beating the pants off some rich boy's store-bought Spaghetti GTO
