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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 ...

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 ...

History is funny sometimes - it has a wicked sense of humor, which occasionally rolls over several generations before being fully understood and appreciated. The Chevrolet Corvair is – or instead was ...

Corvair engine viewed from the upper side shows how the aluminum crankcase is split down the center line. Case must be split to remove crank, bearings or the camshaft. Cutaway top view reveals angular ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Concept cars are exactly what they are called—just a “concept.” Don’t look too closely at the details of how producible the car is because it’s just a concept of a car. What typically survives from ...

Time stood still for this 1962 Chevy Corvair 95 Greenbrier, thanks to the loving care of its previous owners. Refurbished and refinished, the Greenbrier is trying to lure a new owner at an auction on ...

It would be another month before we'd know the verdict on the engine, and I'm not gonna lie, that made me nervous as hell. I'll let you know how the engine held up in a couple of weeks. But for now, ...