The Chevrolet Corvair is a rear-engined, air-cooled compact car manufactured and marketed by Chevrolet over two generations between 1960 and 1969. A response...
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the late 1950s for use in the rear-engined Chevrolet Corvair of the 1960s. It was used in the entire Corvair line, as well as a wide variety of other applications...
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Chevrolet used the name Chevrolet Greenbrier for two distinct vehicles. The first was a six-to-nine-passenger window van version of the Corvair "95" panel...
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The Chevrolet Corvair Monza GT (XP-777) is an experimental mid-engined prototype automobile built by General Motors in 1962. Based on the early model...
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based in Caledonia, Ontario Chevrolet Corvair, a compact car manufactured by Chevrolet for model years 1960–1969 Chevrolet Corvair Monza GT, a mid-engined...
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(1962) Corvair Monza SS (1962) Corvair Sebring Spyder (1961) Corvair Super Spyder (1962) Chevrolet Testudo (1963) Corvette (concept) (1953) Corvette C2 (concept)...
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Corvette, the Corvair fastback variant never went into production, and the two-door Nomad station wagon was eventually built as the Chevrolet Nomad. Corvette...
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the Volkswagen Type 3 Squareback, but power came from the Corvair's rear-mounted Chevrolet Turbo-Air 6 engine with 145 cu.in. displacement which developed...
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Monza nameplate originated in mid-1960 for the sport version of the Chevrolet Corvair. The Monza 2+2 debuted as a single-model 2+2 hatchback. The Monza...
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General Motors Z platform (section Chevrolet Corvair)
rear-drive/rear-engine Z-body include: 1960–1969 Chevrolet Corvair 500 1960–1969 Chevrolet Corvair Monza 1965–1966 Chevrolet Corvair Corsa The second was the Corvette...
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The Chevrolet Testudo is a concept car built by Bertone on a modified Chevrolet Corvair Monza platform. The name comes from the Latin word for "Turtle"...
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models. All 1969s were Super Cars. Don Yenko Yenko Camaro Chevrolet Corvair: Yenko Stinger Chevrolet Vega Bill Holder & Phil Kunz; forewords by Dick Brannan...
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Chevrolet Corvair Powerglide is a two-speed automatic transmission designed specially for the then all-new 1960 Chevrolet Corvair compact car that emerged...
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said the Corvair was 'unsafe' and a 'terrible' car in his book, Iacocca: An Autobiography. Dan Neil wrote, "Chevrolet execs knew the Corvair was a handful...
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1961 domestic sales charts to third-place behind Chevrolet and Ford. The innovative Chevrolet Corvair, and the Chevy II, which was designed to compete...
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compact cars, resulting in the introduction of the Studebaker Lark, Chevrolet Corvair, Ford Falcon, and Plymouth Valiant. These models also gave rise to...
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Falcon Ranchero). After the rear-engine Chevrolet Corvair was outsold by the conventional Ford Falcon in 1960, Chevrolet completed work on a more conventional...
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The Chevrolet Vega is a subcompact automobile that was manufactured and marketed by GM's Chevrolet division from 1970 to 1977. Available in two-door hatchback...
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range of trucks that was manufactured by General Motors. Marketed by the Chevrolet and GMC brands from the 1988 to the 2002 model years, this is the final...
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successor for the rear-engine Corvair Corvan/Greenbrier, the model line also replaced the panel van configuration of the Chevrolet Suburban. The vehicle was...
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(moth), a genus of moth Chevrolet Corsa, sports variant of the US Chevrolet Corvair automobile Toyota Corsa, alternate name of the Japanese Toyota Tercel...
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projects for General Motors, including development of the Chevrolet Corvair and Chevrolet Vega; developing GM's Small Block V8 and its rotary engine...
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marketed by the Big Three American manufacturers. In contrast to its Chevrolet Corvair and (Plymouth) Valiant competitors, the Falcon was developed as a...
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the 1960–1969 Chevrolet Corvair (air-cooled). Both are rear-engined cars with rear-wheel drive. Chevrolet produced over 1.8 million Corvairs of various types...
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Tom McCahill (section On the Chevrolet Corvair)
the first road test of the Chevrolet Corvair in 1959. In the presence of Zora Arkus-Duntov, chief engineer of the Corvair project, McCahill ran the car...
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independent rear suspension was successfully adapted for the new-for-1965 Chevrolet Corvair, which solved the quirky handling problems of that unique rear-engine...
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designation XP-836, with a name that Chevrolet chose in keeping with other car names beginning with the letter C such as the Corvair, Chevelle, Chevy II, and Corvette...
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the RR layout included the Tucker, Volkswagen Beetle, Porsche 356, Chevrolet Corvair, NSU Prinz, ZAZ Zaporozhets and Hino Contessa. Many modern electric...
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the pre-facelift Volkswagen Beetle and most of its derivatives, the Chevrolet Corvair, and the roll-over prone M151 jeep amongst others. Many later automobile...
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the 1964 Chevrolet Corvair (which is rear-engined with rear-wheel drive), the flat-ten version was fitted to an experimental 1962 Chevrolet Impala (a...
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