Rats! They seem to be everywhere, infesting the streets with their special brand of colossal big-block horsepower and torque. Yet despite all their power and evil reputation, there's always been one ...

Unlike most of its competitors, the Chevrolet Mark IV Rat motor was designed from the beginning to be a high-performance race engine, with the initial Daytona "Mystery Motor" configuration merely ...

Honest-to-goodness aluminum heads for the small-block Chevy? For years you've probably heard rumors about these mysterious super-trick heads. You may even have seen some of the very rare aluminum ...

Although it's more than half a century old, the L88 remains one of the mightiest V8s that ever powered a Corvette. For most people, there's nothing more American than apple pie, but for gearheads, ...

Purpose-built factory drag cars with COPO badging are a rarity even among auctions of desirable special-edition vehicles, but a 2023 Chevy COPO Camaro Big Block will soon be up for grabs in a ...

While there is some contention surrounding who produced the first muscle car, we can all agree that Chevrolet was certainly in the mix of it all during America's earliest muscle car days. In an effort ...

I worked as a machinist in an automotive machine shop in the early 1980s before my career took me into the aerospace sector.