The Chevrolet Corvair was a rear-engine car manufactured between 1960 and 1969, becoming GM's first vehicle powered by an all-aluminum, air-cooled, flat-six engine. It also happened to be the first ...

At the end of the 1950s, American cars were getting longer and longer. In fact, some models like the Buick Electra and the Lincoln Continental were so long, they didn't fit in some residential garages ...

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 ...

Bowing for the 1960 model year, the Chevy Corvair was Chevrolet’s new economy car. The Corvair name, a contraction of the Corvette and Bel Air monikers, had previously been used for a 1954 GM Motorama ...

This is an excerpt from Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars, opens new tab,published this month by Simon & Schuster. The historic events, however, were set in motion 40 ...

The Chevy Corvair, a blending of the Corvette and Bel Air names, story begins at the 1954 GM Motorama where the Corvair concept bowed as a fastback version of the Corvette. The concept was well ...