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, ...

The 1967 Chevrolet Corvette 427 arrived as a street car that behaved like a pit-lane escapee, a machine engineered less for ...

Chevrolet General Manager Ed Cole was always “looking over the horizon” for new technology. In 1957, Cole commanded his engineers to start working on a line of 1960 Chevrolets that would all use a ...

When it comes to vintage Chevrolet engines, the L88 is near the top of the epic performance pyramid. For those out of the loop, the L88 is a 427-inch big-block V-8 engine that was originally factory ...

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 ...

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 ...

1967 marked the final year of the second-generation Chevy Corvette. Known as the Mid Year Corvette, the second generation spanned from 1963 to 1967, and had seen the Corvette transition from a ...

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 ...

This 1966 Chevrolet was faster than the Chevelle SS and GTO but looked like an unmarked taxi.

The Chevy Corvette received a full redesign for the 1963 model year. The all new ‘Vette, aka the Sting Ray, was one of Bill Mitchell’s first projects after replacing Harley J. Earl as GM Styling ...

Nelson Racing builds a 427-inch stroker for a customer’s 1955 Chevy show car. With a solid-roller valvetrain, and the right parts, this big-inch small-block Chevy made over 600 hp on Westech’s dyno.

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 ...