Chevy big-block V8 engines, affectionately known as “Rat Motors,” have left an indelible mark on the automotive world with ...

Bowing for the 1950 model year, the two-door Chevy Bel Air Sports Coupe took its name from the wealthy Los Angeles, California, suburb. The Bel Air could only be had in the Deluxe trim. The 1953 model ...

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 Bel Air was a long-lasting staple of the Bowtie division of General Motors, lasting for just over three decades. However, the general consensus would regard 1955 as the first year of the ...

Denny Terzich is at it again. Last year, we featured his beautiful orange and white '55 with a DFI-injected, big-block Chevy ("105-Day Wonder," October '96), but that wasn't good enough for Denny. The ...

Chevy's Vortec 8100 — AKA the L18, AKA the Vortec 8.1 — was the last of The General's big block V8s, a line of engines that traced its lineage clear back to the fire-breathing muscle cars of the '60s ...

The convertible-style roof is the easiest way to tell a 1962 Impala apart from its predecessors, but the new model year also brought big changes under the hood. The base engine remained the same as in ...