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White body, white power top, lipstick-red interior with boy-racer gauges in aluminum dash, four-on-the-floor, turbocharger. Babe-magnet-wise, its only allure in an era when convertibles were ...
Tony Penz of Kingston has had a love affair with the Corvair since his youth. In the '60s he owned a 1962 and a 1967 convertible. "It was the most fun I ever had in a car," Tony said. On May 5, at ...
On this day in 1972, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released the results of a two-year study that concluded that Chevrolet's 1960-63 Corvair models were at least as safe as ...
Ralph Nader dinged the Corvair in his 1965 book, but the NHTSA cleared it of all accusations seven years later. More recently, fans have flocked the classic American model. (It's not a death trap.) ...
AThe writer’s ’63 convertible Corvair leaks transmission fluid whenever the car sits in her carport. She wants to know what she can do to prevent this mess. Unfortunately, these cars ca… ...
But when it came to bodywork, painting, and interior, John stepped up. First he lowered its lid four inches, then frenched in the taillights, built his own pickup bed, louvered the tailgate, and ...