The Chevy Biscayne 427 sleeper occupies a strange sweet spot in muscle car history, hiding brutal big block performance ...

It was nicknamed the Mystery Motor and the Porcupine. Whatever you call it, the 1963 427 Mark-IIS is so rare that only nine ...

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, ...

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

Allegedly capable of spitting out over 600 naturally aspirated horses, this experimental big-block V8 never got a proper chance to shine but still became an American engineering legend. During the ...

A standard Malibu built when GM's self-imposed 400-ci (6.5-liter) limit on intermediate V8s was still in effect, this 427 L72-powered, non-SS Chevelle became a reality through clever manipulation of a ...

The 1963 Chevrolet Impala Z11 was a lightweight version of the Impala that packed a 430-hp 427 under the hood and dominated ...

Like any good cliff-hanger, when we left you last month, our Anti-LS small-block engine was well underway at Dart Machinery. But would we be able to do what we set out to? Could we build a Gen I small ...

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 ...

Chevrolet at the 2021 SEMA show in Las Vegas unveiled a monster of a crate engine in the form of the 1,004-hp 10.4-liter ZZ632/1000 V-8. Chevy even called it at the time the “biggest, baddest crate ...