Chrysler's HEMI engine design dates back to the first-generation Hemi produced in the early 1950s. The Trenton Engine Plant, located in Trenton, Michigan, built U.S. production hemispherical ...
During the Second World War, the U.S. Government contracted Chrysler to develop a 2,000-horsepower airplane engine that could ... the second-generation 426 Hemi, but an early Hemi is a feisty ...
Chrysler and its Mopar performance parts division first introduced the original Hemi (so named for its hemispherical combustion chambers) back in 1951, celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2011.