Before American cars had officially "gone muscle" with the Pontiac GTO, the 1961 Chevy Impala Super Sport captured the formula nicely: upgrade a regular passenger car with the biggest engine the ...

Chevrolet enjoyed a banner year in 1962. The celebration of that golden anniversary year not only saw strong sales, but Chevrolet witnessed wildly popular acceptance of the newly introduced 409ci ...

Muscle car fans will still be arguing about who got there first long after the world’s oil wells have finally run dry. Was it Olds with its Rocket 88, Chrysler’s letter-series cars, or the Pontiac GTO ...

American muscle cars were typically rated by how fast they were in a straight line. This meant completing a quarter-mile run to boast impressive times. Most of these cars packed massive engines that ...

Like many full-size nameplates that debuted in the 1950s, the Chevrolet Impala went racing in the early 1960s. Introduced in 1963, the Z11 lightweight drag racer is arguably the meanest and rarest ...

In the long and rich history books of Chevrolet, 1958 is one of those years written in block capitals, and most gearheads tend to associate it with one of the most glorious names ever to adorn a ...

Let's clear it up right here. The Chevy 409 is no more of a truck engine than the Chevy small-block 350 or big-block 454. Just because GM used each of these engines in heavy-duty commercial ...

The Chevy Impala bowed for the 1958 model year. General Motors was celebrating its fiftieth year of production with anniversary models introduced for each brand. Chevrolet‘s anniversary model was the ...

Legendary 409 V8-powered Bel Air in pristine Tuxedo Black to cross the block at Mecum Indianapolis, Lot #F257. A stunning, collector-grade 1963 Chevrolet Bel Air 2-Door Coupe equipped with the iconic ...