The Ford and Chevy 427 big blocks sit at the center of one of performance history’s fiercest rivalries, yet the two engines followed very different paths from the dyno cell to the winner’s circle. I ...

The Chevrolet big-block is the workhorse racing engine of the muscle-car era. The 427 W first showed up midyear as a stroked 409 for the 1963 Chevrolet Impala SS. However, a year before, ...

It all began in 1965 ... well, 1961. At that time, Chevrolet called it the Z-11. Some people called it the "Mystery Engine," and later they called it the offshoot that produced the 348 "truck" engine.

Dim’s fascination with cars began when he was just six. Born into a family of car enthusiasts and racing drivers, he started learning basic mechanics and driving from an early age. While he loves ...

In 1967, the first year of the Camaro, a gentleman by the name of Donald Frank Yenko replaced the 6.5-liter V8 of the SS with a 7.0-liter V8. Of course, Don Yenko’s dealership in Pennsylvania further ...

Starting with the 2011 model year, General Motors built 69 Chevy Camaro COPOs (Central Office Production Order) per year to be used for NHRA Stock Eliminator and Super Stock Drag Racing programs.

As a salute to classic big-block 427 Corvettes from the late 1960s, Chevrolet is releasing the 2008 Corvette 427 Limited Edition Z06. The limited-edition models will be painted Crystal Red. The ...

Back in the ol’ days of trucking, U.S. customers bought pickups mostly for work instead of daily driving and leisure driving. The Chevrolet Advance Design was the best-selling workhorse in the late ...

The 1967 Chevy Camaro debuted on September 26th, 1966. The Camaro was the Bow Tie division’s answer to the success of the Ford Mustang. The Camaro had a more streamlined appearance than the Mustang, ...

There are quite a few rare Chevy V8s. I could go on about '56 Corvette dual-quad 265s with Duntov cams, ZL-1s, L88s, L89 aluminum-headed 396s, and L84 fuel-injected 327s. Rarer still is the Z-11 427 W ...

American carmakers in the 1960s chased trends like Metallica cutting their hair. Seemingly, every brand had to have a large displacement V8, even producing ...