The Chevrolet big-block is the workhorse racing engine of the muscle-car era. The 427 W first showed up midyear as a stroked 409 for the 1963 Chevrolet Impala SS. However, a year before, ...

Chevy has one of the richest engine back catalogs in automotive history, but this V8 is easily the rarest the brand has ever ...

The Chevrolet 409 V8 had a significant, but brief moment in the history of American big-block, high-performance engines. While the 409 V8 may be best known as the title of a popular Beach Boys song ...

Before the Street Hemi thundered into Detroit’s horsepower wars, the cannon fire had already begun. Chevrolet lobbed its Z11 Impala into the fray in 1963, a short-lived unicorn packing a bored-out 427 ...

As one of the 15,019 409-powered Chevrolets produced for 1962, Gary Anderson's immaculately restored Super Sport Impala convertible is an exceptional example of the '60s Super Stock street car breed.