"I've got a '69 Chevy with a 396 ... in opposition to the small block "mouse motors." This is where the 396 comes into play, which aimed to take the power of that original 427 and put it into ...
"The small-block Chevy is unquestionably the dominant domestic ... By mid-1965, the 327 played second-fiddle to the 396-cubic-inch big-block that debuted in the Corvette. It soldiered on as ...