Under the hood is a potent iteration of Ford's venerable 427 FE big block. The Ford FE Series of V8 engines have undergone multiple iterations before debuting the 427 cubic inch (7.0-liter ...

The automaker's answer was a 7.0-liter, 426-cubic-inch displacement engine. It used the same block as Ford's earlier 427 FE V8 but incorporated numerous performance upgrades to improve power output.

Monster motors were the order of the day in the late 1960s, and GM's 427 was a part of that class. The drawback to a big-block's burly output was, and still is, the increased weight of the engine.

Introduced for the 1959 model year as a range-topping model, the Ford ... big-block mills that had joined the lineup. When equipped with the 406- and 427-cubic-inch (6.6- and 7.0-liter) FE V8 ...