The Ford Boss 429 Mustang was never just another high-performance muscle car—it was a homologation special shaped as much by ...

Imagine for a moment you're in charge of a major motorcycle manufacturer and are looking to siphon customers away from the Harley-Davidson Softail. You'd want to capture that classic cruiser look and ...

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. Don’t get too excited, fellows, ...

Think Hemis are just for Dodges? Think again!

Charting 70 years of Chrysler Hemi dominance at the track and on the street. While many manufacturers have toyed with building engines with hemispherical combustion chambers, only Chrysler (now ...

The 1960s are littered with a plethora of high-performance powerplants, often with overlapping names and terms. The 426 is a victim of such naming conventions, with two prominent engines boasting the ...

The Chrysler Hemi motor is a 90-degree pushrod V8, ranging in capacity from 3.9L to 6.4L, and with either natural aspiration or supercharging. The name “Hemi” has been applied to this family of ...

The history of the first Hemi engine from Dodge is pretty straightforward, but it turns out that the tale behind the first engines with hemispherical combustion chambers requires going down a much ...

Thanks to the original Mopar muscle cars from the ‘60s and ‘70s, as well as the Hellcat-powered beasts of today, the HEMI moniker has become almost synonymous with the American V8 engine all across ...

Close-up of valve covers on a Ford 427 "Cammer" engine - The Throttlestop/YouTube "HEMI" and "Chrysler" go together like a horse and carriage. Whether it's the early, first-generation FirePower HEMI ...

Fantastic sound. The smell of burnt rubber. Ridiculous power. Chrysler's HEMI V8 family had all of these traits since the first 331-cid (5.4-liter) FirePower unit entered production in 1951. The ...