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.

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 ...

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 Galaxie ... thanks to the big-block mills that had joined the lineup. When equipped with the 406- and 427-cubic-inch (6.6 ...