Not to sound like a parody of Jerry Seinfeld here, but what's the deal with all these identical-displacement V8s from different manufacturers? We've talked about the Ford 427 vs. the Chevy 427 before, ...
The term "outlaw" is often used in the Porsche modding communities, describing machines that sacrifice everything in the name of a strong personality. And while we are now looking at a Dodge, this ...
Visiting automotive museums, scrutinizing thick coffee table books about muscle cars, and watching movies revolving around car culture could make you think that every other car in the '60s had a 426 ...
In the late 1950s, Chrysler decided to cease production on its FirePower V8 engines. These were massive, hemispherical engines that would be revived in the mid-1960s and be rebranded to what we now ...
The difference between a stroker engine and a regular engine lies primarily in the choice of crankshaft. In the case of the 383-cubic inch stroker, engine builders would modify crankshafts designed ...
When he was building his automotive empire, Walter P. Chrysler used the General Motors blueprint to diversify the automaker’s portfolio beyond Dodge and the Chrysler brand. However, many nameplates ...
Last month we built a mild street engine using a factory Chrysler 383 block, crankshaft, rods, and cylinder heads combined with some aftermarket goodies from Comp Cams and Summit Racing Equipment, and ...
Hint:It pays to go to garage sales. Just ask Chris Findlay. His wife found a used sewing machine at one, but it wouldn't fit in her car. So Chris drove over with his pickup truck to transport the ...
Not all stories of classic cars committed to long-term storage end happily. Some aren’t ever rediscovered and end up turning into piles of scrap metal. Today’s story about a 1968 Dodge Charger is ...