The 1963 Ford Galaxie 500 XL arrived at the height of the space race, with a name that promised orbit and a body that looked ready to slip through the atmosphere. It was a full-size American coupe ...

Before the Street Hemi thundered into Detroit’s horsepower wars, the cannon fire had already begun. Chevrolet lobbed its Z11 Impala into the fray in 1963, a short-lived unicorn packing a bored-out 427 ...