Finding rare engines can be more difficult for this reason though, so HotCars scoured the archives to find the 12 most exclusive powerplants ever found under the hood of a muscle car. How we made ...

Packing large displacements and enormous power, these V8 engines are the reason the '60s are touted as the golden era of muscle cars. Production Year 1969 Displacement 427 ci Specific Power Output ...

The Pontiac GTO changed the auto world in the 1960s and with its return in the early 2000s, it certainly raised some eyebrows, but was it a good idea?

Unfortunately, the Tempest engine never made it into muscle cars of the mid-to-late 1960s. A new V8 landed in 1963, but this one didn't increase the engine's size. The 326 looked much like the 389 ...

However, only a few years before the Mustang made its grand entrance, another model arrived on the market that ticked all the muscle car boxes, but slipped by without gaining much fame: the 1962 ...