It's also the most expensive Coronet ever sold at public auction and pricier than all but two second-generation Dodge HEMI Chargers.

Mopar rides were the quickest accelerating vehicles of the classic muscle car era, but some had a little more zip than others ...

Meanwhile on the drag strip, the Gen II 426 Race Hemi propelled Don Garlits past 200 miles per hour and down the quarter-mile in 7.78 seconds. Changes in NASCAR regulations meant that Chrysler ...

The Pennsylvania man who owns the cars has his Plymouth Road Runner Superbird under restoration, and wants to revive a former drag racer 1967 Coronet R/T ...

One of the major reasons why it isn't as highly regarded as its Mopar brethren is that it never had a 426 Street Hemi engine option like the rest of the lineup. Heck, even the Plymouth Barracuda ...

Well, in the mid-1960s, Chrysler debuted two different engines that were designed to fulfill this hunger for America's gearheads. In 1964, the company started producing the 426 Hemi V8 engine ...

During the mid-1960s, many Americans were obsessed with automobiles. Teenagers cruised the main drag through countless small towns on warm summer evenings. Families loaded up in their cars to ...

The race-HEMI was adapted to create the 426 Street-HEMI, Chrysler's second generation of the HEMI V8. The 426 HEMI powered some legendary vehicles until its demise after the 1971 model year.

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20181030 Sema28 / Steve Marcus, for USA TODAY Mopar, the renowned global brand ... significantly outperforms the retiring 6.4-liter HEMI V8 and the Pentastar V6. Its impressive capabilities ...

In this episode of 'Shift: NASCAR’s evolution through the eyes of The King,' Richard Petty dives into the engine war in the 1960s and the battle between Ford and Chrysler over the 426 Hemi.

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