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This 1970 Chevrolet Nova wears a modern LS swap and carbon fiber accents, but the platform underneath was already capable of serious performance straight from the factory — Chevrolet’s own 396-badged, actually 402-cubic-inch, big block was available for just $475 that year. Read on to find out what Chevrolet’s engineers offered buyers before anyone thought to drop in an LS.
SpeedKore built this 1970 Dodge Charger around an engine that was never intended for a road: a 9.0-liter, quad-cam racing V8 from Mercury Racing’s boat program, twin-turbocharged to 1,650 horsepower on race fuel. It debuted at SEMA, appeared in a Fast & Furious film, was gifted to Vin Diesel, and has been offered at $699,000. Here is how a marine engine ended up in a muscle car body.