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 Chevy Biscayne 427 sleeper occupies a strange sweet spot in muscle car history, hiding brutal big block performance inside one of the most unassuming full-size bodies Detroit ever stamped. I am ...

Even in the golden age of hot-rodding, the mid-'60s and early '70s, sometimes what GM was churning out, although cool, wasn't enough for the die-hard gearhead. They wanted more, and that pent-up ...

From the March 1965 issue of HOT ROD: The 396ci big-block Chevy had just dropped, and we were justifiably excited by its big valves, high-flow ports, and 425 horsepower. Chevrolet’s 427 engine that ...

During the era when muscle cars reigned supreme, GM's Chevrolet division developed some of the greatest big-block V8s of all time. Follow us: Since the early 1960s, American carmakers started offering ...

If you're a fan of early Camaros, or muscle cars in general, then some of your favorites have to be the Yenko-modified examples, built for those who wanted more than what Chevrolet was willing to ...

To discuss the rat, we must first discuss the mouse. In 1954, Ford squeaked past Chevrolet in sales by a 2% margin (1,165,942 vs. 1,143,561), a reversal of the previous year when Chevy beat Ford by 7% ...

Before the 1968 Chevrolet SS 427 ever rumbled onto American streets, it was already something of an oddity—a secret muscle car hidden inside a full-size suit. Produced only from 1967 to 1969 as the ...