If we had to choose one word to summarize American car design in the 1950s it very well might be “excess.” Automotive ...

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

Chevy's Corvair is a six too, but with horizontally opposed banks of three cylinders each. Shown here without accessories and cooling ducts, ingenious air-cooled 140-incher is mostly aluminum and ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...

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 ...

In the late 1950s, General Motors' engineering department became enticed by mid-engine vehicles and developed the CERV I experimental vehicle. The automaker continued toying with the idea through the ...

Prior to Ralph Nader's book panning the Corvair, Unsafe at Any Speed, Chevrolet already had a plan to help make Corvairs unsafe, by placing them in contexts where they'd be shot at: war. Yes, in 1963, ...

Most pickup trucks follow a familiar template: engine in the front, bed in the back. That isn't the case with this 1961 Chevrolet Corvair pickup, featured on a recent episode of "Jay Leno's Garage." ...