The Dodge Challenger debuted in 1970 as the division’s first pony car ever – some seven model years after the corporate sibling, the A-body Plymouth Barracuda, inaugurated the genre on April 1, 1964.

Based on the bones of Chrysler’s first-generation Hemi engine from 1951 to 1958, HOT ROD had a pretty good sense that the new version from 1964 was going to kick ass. Today’s muscle car aficionado is ...

If you think aluminum engine components—especially cylinder heads or cylinder blocks—are a new arrival on the scene or are strictly for racing, you're probably still waiting for the postman to deliver ...

The 426 Hemi engine arrived in 1966, and when the curtain fell over the 1971 production season, the nefarious V8 entered legendhood. Six years and 9,955 units were enough to set the hemispherical ...

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 ...