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 ...

The Chevrolet Corvair was about as close to making a European-like car an American manufacturer was going to get in the 60’s. Often referred to as the ‘poor man’s Porsche’, the Corvair was lauded for ...

The Chevrolet Corvair was never recognized as a prominent performance machine, but that didn’t stop Don Yenko from wanting to go racing with it. Yenko entered it in SCCA racing events, but in order ...

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 ...

While not quite as expensive as the 1969 Yenko Super Nova, this SS 396 L78 is the priciest Nova built on Chevrolet's assembly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mention "Yenko" in GM circles and most will think of the Camaro Yenko. But Don Yenko is also known for another model, based on the Corvair--the Yenko Stinger. MUST SEE: The Story Behind The World's ...

Mark McNabb was a contributor at TopSpeed from 2013 to 2018. Growing up, Mark always had a mind for tinkering on random items throughout his home and dad’s garage, including a 1953 Ford Mainline and ...