A race-bred V8 makes this one of the craziest sleepers America produced in the '60s.

The small-block Chevy engine has long been a cornerstone of American automotive performance, quietly powering some of the ...

The Chevy 454 Big Block V8 is one of the most legendary powerplants in American automotive history. Known for its massive ...

The U.S. is known as the land of excess for many reasons. Take the automotive landscape, for example. You have big SUVs and even bigger engines. However, there was a time when engines in American cars ...

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 ...

Could the small-block Chevy be the most popular engine-build that HOT ROD has covered over its 77-year history? We don’t have a running tally, but in our expert guesstimate, that is probably true. So ...

Since 1955, the entry-level division of General Motors has been producing cars powered by a low-cost and reliable V8. Available in a range of sizes, the small-block Chevy gained legendary status ...

However, Ford was thinking in another direction, deciding to focus on efficiency and balance. The result was the small-block V8, a compact, lightweight engine that proved you didn't need massive ...

While intermediates were the first to receive big-block V8s during the 1960s, the market's appetite for performance saw the smaller pony cars get the same treatment. The pony car segment emerged in ...

Ford’s small-block Windsor V-8 first appeared in 1962 as a 221-cubic-inch workhorse designed to power smaller cars and trucks but quickly became the darling of Ford-centric hot rodders. Its ...