The 1960s are littered with a plethora of high-performance powerplants, often with overlapping names and terms. The 426 is a victim of such naming conventions, with two prominent engines boasting the ...

Hemi engines aren't perfect. Sorry. Half-grapefruit-shaped combustion chambers sure do let designers increase valve sizes, and in the larger displacement Hemis, these valves could probably pass golf ...

The HEMI engine is named after the engine's hemispherical shaped piston heads. While Chrysler brands popularized and trademarked the name, HEMI-style engines were developed in the early 1900s. The ...

The compact yet fire-breathing LO23 Hemi Dart is one of the landmark models from '60s-era Dodge. It's an A-body drag-racing special that began life as a 1968 Dart GTS hardtop, already an incredible ...

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 ...

Passenger car engines are not racing engines. Some were allegedly designed for that purpose and a few are doing quite well at it; but the majority of engines from Detroit were designed to be grocery ...