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 ...

Q: Greg, you’ve mentioned the Mystery 427 Chevy engine in previous columns and I’m still confused. What really was the Mystery 427, and was it the same as the Z-11 that the drag racers ran? Is this ...

The 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle COPO did not start life as a showroom hero. It was a quiet corporate workaround that let a ...

More than 40 years have passed since Chevrolet labeled a Corvette with a 427 badge. But beginning this summer for a limited run, the legendary nameplate will return on a convertible model ...

A funny thing happened in 1964 when Pontiac introduced the GTO: the performance market shifted towards mid-sized vehicles. By 1966, Chevrolet was selling tens of thousands of Chevelle SS 396 models ...

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 ...

In 1965, GM introduced entirely new fullsize cars in the Buick, Cadillac, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, and Chevrolet brands. At the time, hard as it is to believe now, GM controlled more than 50 percent of ...

Photo (above) Mike Clements, whose father built the '63 Chevy Mystery Motor cars driven by Johnny Rutherford and Rex White, sent this information in our the photo we ran a few months ago. In the photo ...

Q: Greg, you’ve mentioned the Mystery 427 Chevy engine in previous columns and I’m still confused. What really was the Mystery 427, and was it the same as the Z-11 that the drag racers ran? Is this ...

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