It’s 2026, and while the streets buzz with silent electric crossovers and autonomous pods, I still get goosebumps at the sound of a high-strung V8 winding up to redline. The big-block legends always grab the headlines, but the true revolution of the late 1950s and 1960s came from Chevrolet’s — and later everyone else’s — small-block V8. Compact, lightweight, and...