The Elephant sounds like an odd name for an engine, but it's one that's well deserved in this case. Even better, it inspired ...
The late 1960s and early 1970s were the golden age of muscle cars. Packed with charisma, outrageous power, and ostentatious design, they thrived during the muscle car wars of the mid-1960s. Chrysler ...
The pony car segment was split unevenly between seven monikers, and Dodge was the last one to drop in a model, and this ...
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Mecum Auctions is set to offer a 1966 Hemi Plymouth Satellite at its Kissimmee auction with a six-figure estimate. The 426 Hemi first appeared in 1964 as a race-only engine and immediately made ...
Few engines in American history carry the weight that the Chrysler 426 HEMI does. Born for NASCAR in 1964, the seven-liter V8 was sidelined for the 1965 season because it was not yet available in ...
Nineteen seventy was the peak of muscle’s golden era, an era that was ended by crippling insurance rates, tightening emissions regulations and performance-unfriendly low-lead gas. But Detroit didn’t ...
When it comes to Mopars, the 440 is mainly remembered as the displacement of a high-performance big-block V8 engine. Some may ...
Can a Sacks play taps? It can if the musician is a talented '68 426 Chrysler Hemi stuffed in an Olds 442 of the same year. Yup, there are plenty of surprised Fords and Chevys that have been taken in ...
While the original Chrysler 426 cubic inch HEMI rampaged through drag strips and NASCAR tracks during the 1960s, obliterating the competition, the engine itself had its own share of problems. It was ...
Hemi engines aren't perfect. Sorry. Half-grapefruit-shaped combustion chambers sure do let designers increase valve sizes, and in the larger displacement Hemis, these valves could probably pass golf ...