While there is some contention surrounding who produced the first muscle car, we can all agree that Chevrolet was certainly in the mix of it all during America's earliest muscle car days. In an effort ...

How fast you want to go is most often directly proportional to how thick your wallet is. The truth is, big, reliable power costs big bucks. Sure, you can toss a cheapo China turbo on a junkyard LS ...

Chevrolet has had many accomplishments over the years, from being the winningest brand in NASCAR Cup Series history to producing the world's first affordable fully automatic transmission. However, one ...

The big-block V-8 is so synonymous with classic Chevrolet performance that it seems kind of weird that it wasn't introduced until almost the 1960s. Chevy had the D-Series for a brief period of time in ...

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 ...

Introduced in 1970, the Chevy 454 — affectionately known as the Rat Motor – was the largest displacement Chevrolet engine to enter the big-block engine showdown of the muscle car era. At 454 cubic ...

In this episode of Engine Masters presented by AMSOIL, you’ll learn a simple combination for a 600hp big-block Chevy. Many people building engines like this are torn between the streetability of a ...

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

In the '60s, America developed some cool, advanced engines, such as Pontiac's overhead cam inline-6 or the jet-turbine in the Chrysler Turbine Car. Still, when push comes to shove, our first love is a ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...