The Chevrolet L79 327 cubic inch V-8 did something unusual in the muscle era. It delivered big-block punch in a small-block package, and it did it in cars that people actually drove to work, to the ...

American automotive performance in the 1950s was a simple recipe. If you wanted to go faster, you didn't optimize what you had; you just added more to it. More displacement, more iron, more horsepower ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While there have been some iconic big-block engines over the last few decades, it's difficult to argue with the success of the small-block engine. Small-block engines not only weigh less — allowing ...

The 1965 model year brought a host of mechanical and aesthetic changes for the Chevy Corvette Sting Ray. Standard power came by way of a 327 cube Small Block and a three-speed manual gearbox. Other ...