The 1962 Monza Spyder package introduced the world to an aluminum, air-cooled, 145-CID, 150-hp turbo flat-six engine (which ...

For the vast majority of gearheads, ask them to name a turbocharged flat-six vehicle, and they'll likely snap back with some form of Porsche. The German marque has been mating turbos to the engine ...

In the 50s, post-war America was swarming with restless men and women who embraced the prospect of doing more, having more, and living more than their parents. That’s what spurred the economic boom ...

Corvair. Say that word even softly in the presence of off-road enthusiasts and you can bet a week's pay that some sort of argument will follow. The engine's use and misuse off the road is second only ...

Tim Gippert, a native of Cartersville, Georgia, got interested in the rear-engine Chevrolet Corvair when he served as a judge at a show for Corvairs only in Helen, Georgia, in 1997. "A friend asked ...

My grandfather, nicknamed Popeye because of his huge forearms, was a wheeler dealer decades before Mike ran off Edd (allegedly). As a kid, he and I got up at the crack of dawn, and scoured the ...

With the publishing of Unsafe at any Speed in 1965, Ralph Nader made Corvairs like today's Nice Price or No Dice 95 Van, the unwitting poster child for dangerous car design. Today, we're way past that ...

Bracket racer, highway cruiser, or show car. Mike Meyers’ LS1-powered Corvair is all this and more. It’s reliable, fast and gets outstanding fuel economy. As a bonus, in a sea of first-gen Camaros and ...