Today is April 13, or 413, which HOT ROD proclaims as 413 Max Wedge Day. Although the 413ci version of Mopar's tall-deck big-block saw use in everything from Dodge dump trucks to Plymouth sedans, the ...

Beginning in the early 1960s, Chrysler began producing a tuned, drag-ready V8 called the Max Wedge. It was only around for a ...

In the early 1960s, Detroit turned every boulevard into a proving ground. Chevy had the 409, Ford had the 406, and Dodge rolled out the Polara to keep pace. Buyers could pick from a healthy mix of V8s ...

Unlike the other factory lightweight muscle cars, this 1964 Plymouth Savoy has been a drag car all its life. Currently owned by Gene Mosbek and powered by a Stage III Max Wedge V-8, it shows just 10.9 ...

Produced between 1960 and 1973, mostly as a full-size automobile, the Dodge Polara is rarely associated with high performance. That's mainly because it spent much of the golden era in the full-size ...

Arguably the most iconic engine ever built by Chrysler, the 426-cubic-inch (7.0-liter) Hemi V8 arrived in 1964 in race-spec form. Two years later, Chrysler unleashed the Street Hemi for homologation ...