The 1965 Impala SS 409 sits at the intersection of mass-market success and true rarity, a high performance option tucked inside one of the most common American cars of its era. Understanding how ...

Only 2,828 409s were made in 1965, and 82 of those were Impala station wagons; this survivor was not touched after the ...

The 427 Z11 V-8 dominated the drag strip and could have owned the classic muscle car era had GM allowed it.

Let's define "small-block" so no one will get mad (people will still get mad). General Motors may call the Gen-III to Gen-V LS and LT V8s "small-blocks" in marketing materials, but even Chevrolet's ...

The Camaro, rest in peace (for now), usually got hand-me-downs from the Corvette, if it got anything unique at all. There were no production Camaros powered by the double overhead-cam LT5 from the C4 ...

The second-gen Chevy Corvette, also known as the C2 or “Sting Ray,” changed the game between 1963 and 1967. It gave us pop-up headlights, a sharper profile, and a legendary look that’s become ...

The 1965 model year brought a number of aesthetic and functional changes for the Chevy Corvette Sting Ray. The depressions at the hood’s leading edge were nixed, the horizontally oriented faux front ...

Bowing for the 1960 model year, the Chevy Corvair was Chevrolet’s new economy car. The Corvair name, a contraction of the Corvette and Bel Air monikers, had previously been used for a 1954 GM Motorama ...

The world of super Chevys wouldn’t be nearly as fascinating without the legendary engines that bring them to life. Prior to 1955, Chevy engines weren’t given much attention in the hot-rod scene. Their ...

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 ...

1965 was THE year for the Impala. Chevrolet sold over 1 million examples, and the Impala became the first car to go that high in just one year. Follow us: It was a milestone that nobody expected in ...

The iconic Chevrolet Impala, a symbol of American automotive excellence, achieved a monumental milestone in 1965, surpassing the one million sales mark. This remarkable feat was part of a broader ...