The 426 Hemi is remembered today as one of the most feared engines in muscle car history, but its path to production was far ...

The 1970 Plymouth Hemi ’Cuda arrived at the height of the muscle car era with performance so extreme that it quickly drew ...

The iconic 426-cubic-inch (7.0-liter) Hemi V8 engine was born in 1964 as a race-spec unit. It was first raced in a Plymouth Belvedere and then banned due to its unavailability in production vehicles.

Mecum Auctions is set to offer a 1966 Hemi Plymouth Satellite at its Kissimmee auction with a six-figure estimate. The 426 Hemi first appeared in 1964 as a race-only engine and immediately made ...

I've mentioned a couple of times how confusing Plymouth's vintage lineup of muscle cars can be if you weren't following each launch as it happened back in the '60s. With so many famous names, 'Cuda, ...

For some, bragging rights might be made up of horsepower numbers or elapsed times, but for Milburn Varner, it consists of gloriously unrestored Mopars and lots of parts to go with them. While his age ...

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 ...

Mecum is holding its 2026 Indianapolis auction from May 8-16, and naturally for events of this sort, there will be plenty of rare muscle cars from the pre-EPA era. One of the rarest of the rare is ...

Few engines in American history carry the weight that the Chrysler 426 HEMI does. Born for NASCAR in 1964, the seven-liter V8 was sidelined for the 1965 season because it was not yet available in ...

It was December of 1962 when Lynn Townsend set the wheels in motion by authorizing the build of a new engine for the sole purpose of being a race-ready engine that could go to the 1964 Daytona 500—and ...