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 ...

Lucky us! We happened to get our paws on a crate Hemi-and the green light to run it to within an inch of its life on the dyno. Even better, we had a chance to bolt on a selection of go-fast goodies to ...

After more than two decades of flogging muscle motors on the dyno, Nick Panaritis thought he’d seen it all. But when a 472-cubic-inch Hemi arrived at his garage with a history as troubled as a street ...

Historic. Legendary. Unbeatable. These—and many other descriptive words have been used to describe the 426 Hemi since its public introduction in 1964, but how did we get there? It was December of 1962 ...