If you stop and think about it, one engine has made motorsports in the United States for nearly 50 years. The Offy was a great engine, as was the four-cam Ford. Who can forget the mighty Mopar hemis?

Bart Jenson, via email:A friend showed me a small-block Chevy engine block with the number 327 cast into the outer wall. He says it came out of a 1961 Corvette and has plans to sell it online. I had ...

Few mechanical creations have shaped American car culture as profoundly as Chevrolet’s small-block V8. Introduced in 1955, it arrived at the perfect intersection of postwar optimism, mass mobility, ...