When most enthusiasts talk about Chevrolet’s V8 legacy, the story usually begins in 1955 with the legendary small-block. That engine earned its reputation honestly—it was affordable, powerful, and ...

For most enthusiasts, the word “Hemi” belongs to Chrysler, yet Chevrolet quietly touched hemispherical combustion chamber design long before and after the muscle car wars. From an early luxury V8 to ...

The 1960s were a time that saw muscle cars with the best names and automakers racing for horsepower supremacy. While drag racers often turned to large displacement big-block engines for power, others ...

Introduced in 1953 as one of the first American-built sports cars, the Chevrolet Corvette was almost cancelled a year later due to slow sales and numerous quality issues. In 1955, however, the sports ...

Chrysler may have trademarked HEMI, but the Detroit carmaker did not invent hemispherical engines, which appear in numerous cars from Europe and the U.S.

This 1971 Chevrolet Nova took ages to complete, but look at it now. It features a hardtop, which took 900 hours to engineer and weld onto the car, a front end that took 600 hours to design and install ...