The 1960s are littered with a plethora of high-performance powerplants, often with overlapping names and terms. The 426 is a victim of such naming conventions, with two prominent engines boasting the ...
Let's pretend it's May 1962 and you're a diehard Chrysler loyalist who loves drag racing. You could search for a used 392 Hemi, but good luck keeping the bottom end from grenading after slapping on an ...
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 ...
Ahhh, the Holley 4150. Released in the late '50s and made available to the aftermarket in the '60s, it has been the gold standard for performance carburetion ever since. It has an enormous range of ...
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 ...
If you've been watching Bill Goldberg, you already know he has a thing for Mopars. He owns quite a few muscle cars from the golden era, including an all-original 1969 Dodge HEMI Charger and a 1968 ...
Introduced in production models for the 1966 model year, the 426-cubic-inch (7.0-liter) HEMI V8 is arguably the most iconic Chrysler engine from the golden muscle car era. However, it wasn't the ...
During the mid-1960s, many Americans were obsessed with automobiles. Teenagers cruised the main drag through countless small towns on warm summer evenings. Families loaded up in their cars to attend ...
Some of Tom Cotter’s tremendous barn finds have come by way of association, word of mouth from someone who knows the kind of things Tom is looking for. Other times Tom stumbles upon the treasures ...
Ask most muscle car enthusiasts to identify the car that kicked off the muscle car era, and they will most likely say it was the 1964 Pontiac GTO and not the 1962 Plymouth Fury Max Wedge. Why? Because ...
Chrysler’s 426 Hemi is the corporation’s most famous engine of the classic muscle era, but it’s far from the only one. Before the Hemi became available for street duty in 1966 the top-performing ...
Should the USGA stretch out the par-3 seventh and 11th at Los Angeles Country Club’s North Course to their full scorecard yardages, they’ll be among the longest par 3s in U.S. Open history. Yet in the ...