You might look at a 1963 Pontiac Tempest LeMans and see a tidy compact with clean lines and bucket seats. Engineers of the period saw something stranger: a small car hiding big, risky ideas that did ...

The early years of the 1960s were time-stamped with the mark of the dinosaurs—behemoth 1962 406 Galaxies, 421 Pontiac Catalinas, and 409 Chevrolet Impalas stomped the earth. On the dragstrip, these ...