While V6 and V8 engines are often associated with muscle cars, the origin of the "V" orientation engine actually didn't start ...

The Chrysler 426 Hemi V-8 dominated the streets during the Golden Age and radically transformed the muscle car and American ...

One will have to go back to the early 1900s for the first-ever V8 engine, though it did take a few more years for the idea to truly take off.

Yet, despite a deep, seven-decade history of building engines for everything from small lawn tools to aircraft, the marque has long been just as well-known for a common engine it didn't build: the V8.