Although Plymouth sold over 80,000 Road Runners in 1969, only 787 rolled off the assembly line with the 426 Hemi engine.

Welcome to Graded.Here, we discuss legendary marques, models, or trim packages and affix a letter grade to a selection of ...

For reasons that will never be truly understood in full, Chrysler Corporation decided to keep the 426 Hemi motor away from its 'A' and 'C' platforms (think Duster, Demon, Dart, Barracuda, Valiant, ...

The story of the legendary 426 Hemi doesn’t begin with the 1966 model year. Rather, it starts in 1963, when Chrysler Corporation found itself far off the podium at both oval tracks and drag strips. In ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...

The Chrysler Hemi engine was one of the most powerful engines you could find in a Chrysler car in the late '60s and early '70s. Its distinctive dome-shaped cylinders and large 426-cubic-inch (nearly 7 ...

Outside of avid classic muscle enthusiasts, not many people know that the 1964.5 Ford Mustang didn't invent the pony car segment that came to define the American enthusiast car market in the late ...

What if Chrysler had offered the 426 Hemi as a factory option on the Plymouth Barracuda before 1970? That's the idea behind the 100-point restification of Tom Skjonsberg's '69 Barracuda convertible.