In the golden era of the American "Horsepower Wars," few machines commanded as much respect on the asphalt as the 1963½ Ford Galaxie 500 Fastback and its 426-cube 427 big-block engine that would ...

Before the Street Hemi thundered into Detroit’s horsepower wars, the cannon fire had already begun. Chevrolet lobbed its Z11 Impala into the fray in 1963, a short-lived unicorn packing a bored-out 427 ...