Using the original aluminum big-block patterns, the program was started, and the first nonsleeved Rat motor Chevy engine was cast. The new aluminum-cylinder-wall 430-to-510-cubic-inch Chevy was a ...

The article was about Chevrolet's upcoming aluminum, 427ci Rat motor that was to appear on the 1969 Corvette's option list as regular production option (RPO) ZL1. Chevy's public-relations ...

Completing the assembly is a set of Competition Cams aluminum roller rockers at the stock 1.7:1 ratio. This is the original 502 iron oval-port head test from the "Max Rat" story in the January '93 ...

LOS ANGELES -- -- Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, 69, a sign painter turned car designer whose outrageous automotive creations and grungy cartoon alter ego, Rat Fink, made him an icon of Southern California ...

Remember Ed Roth's Rat Fink art? You don't see it around as much as you used to, but it used to be inescapable at every classic car show. Every Nova and GTO would have a sticker in its window ...