The Chevrolet Corvair remains one of the most fascinating and tragically misunderstood automobiles in American history, an ambitious experiment from a company typically defined by V8 orthodoxy. A ...

When you spend much time in the Ewe Pullets of this land, as I do, you'll encounter many examples of innovative backyard engineering. The easiest vehicles to shorten are ones in which the entire ...

The Chevrolet Corvair, one of the strangest Chevrolets ever built, was an American take on the Volkswagen Beetle. Like the Beetle, it had an air-cooled engine in the rear. Unlike the Beetle, it ...

Since World War II, there has only been one new American car that was a huge leap forward from what had been built before its debut in 1959, and that car was the 1960 Chevrolet Corvair. No other car ...

The Chevy Corvair bowed for the 1960 model year as the Bowtie brand’s air-cooled economy offering. The name came from a contraction of the Corvette and Bel Air nameplates. The Corvair story began when ...

A performance-oriented compact equipped with a turbocharged flat-six, the Corvair Corsa Turbo was by no means a muscle car, yet it became an icon of the era. During the mid-1960s, the American ...