August 22, 2010

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1963 Chevrolet Corvan

BlogBy webmin August 22, 2010

Ever since this year’s New England Concours d’Elegance, I’ve had a jonesing fora Corvan, and this 1963 Chevrolet Corvan for sale on Hemmings.com isn’t helping much to alleviate that jonesing. Thing is, other than drive it around during the summer, I’m not sure what I’d end up doing with it. Put the stock wheels back […]

SIA Flashback – Flying on the Ground: Curtiss’ Wild Conversions

BlogBy webmin August 22, 2010

Many engine builders pursued customers in both the automotive and aviation fields, Lycoming perhaps the best known among them. It wasn’t for lack of trying that Glenn Curtiss is omitted from that list today, as we see in Keith Marvin’s story in SIA #76, August 1983, recording Curtiss’s efforts to place the OX-5 V-8 in […]