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 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 ...

A 1961 Impala bubble top was this close to returning to the road, but the owner who started the restoration of this beautiful car stopped along the way. The reason is simple. "I lost interest," he ...

The Impala isn't the first Chevy you think of when discussing classic high-performance rigs from the GM brand. But that's not to say that the iconic full-size car didn't have proper oomph. When ...

Although Chevrolet developed a V8 engine as early as 1917, the company really made its mark with the small block V8 in 1955. Just three years later the automaker introduced the powerful 348 ci engine ...