The Ford Galaxie nameplate first appeared in 1959, meant to crown the full-size range above the Fairlane. Its name reflected America's space-age obsession, a marketing nod to rockets and satellites ...

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 ...