When I was looking for my first car in the late 1970s, I took an interest in the Corvair because it was a Bill Mitchell design with an air-cooled rear engine at a price I could afford. I bought my ...

Before becoming famous worldwide for stuffing obscenely powerful big-block V8s into the engine bays of Camaros or Novas, Don Yenko transformed Chevy's compact Corvair into a legitimate sports car. In ...

We don’t remember the Corvair as a compact car for price-sensitive customers, but for the legal fallout spurred by Ralph Nader with his 1965 book Unsafe at Any Speed. Something that is often ...

The story of Yenko Chevrolet and its factory-style performance cars is one of innovation, ambition, and a touch of madness.

Stinger. That vehicle name has special meaning to most supercar performance historians. It was the moniker selected by Don Yenko to create a batch of SCCA-legal road racing Corvairs in late 1965 for ...

The name Don Yenko is legendary in the muscle car world. But before the Canonsburg, PA, Chevy dealer built Yenko Camaros, Yenko Novas, or Yenko Chevelles, they made the Corvair-based Yenko Stinger.

The classic muscle car era of the 1960s certainly saw a fair number of fire-breathing factory-built muscle machines. Cars like the Pontiac Catalina Super Duty, Ford Fairlane Thunderbolt, and the Dodge ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Why the hell do people buy old-ass cars from the 1960s? They cost too much, for one thing. They're unreliable to operate as a daily, with ...

Never in a million years would we have believed it had we not seen it with our own eyes. Close to 40 COPO, Yenko, Motion, Fred Gibb, and Dick Harrell supercars were vying to claim the Super Car ...

Don Yenko, a second-generation Pennsylvania Chevrolet dealer, was also a serious racer who loved to make his company’s products go faster. After winning in Corvettes between 1961 and 1963, Yenko ...

Muscle car and SCCA legend Don Yenko built incredible performance cars from Chevy stock, out of the Yenko family’s Canonsburg, Pennsylvania Chevy dealership. However, Yenko didn’t start with Camaros; ...