In the muscle car arena, few words carry quite as much weight as Hemi. That word is, of course, short for ‘hemispherical,’ and in the context of engines, it denotes an engine with a hemispherical combustion chamber. Though the engine’s origins can be traced back to the early 1900s, the Hemi, as modern drivers have come to know it, resulted from the work of Chrysler’s engineering team, who debuted their own hemispherical engine in 1951. Known as much for
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