It seems an entire junkyard out in Maxwell, Nebraska, is shutting down and liquidating its inventory. Fortunately, they’re sending their 50-year collection of 1940s to 1970s cars to auction July 17, 2011. Unfortunately, these are the kinds of auctions at which the recyclers clean up unless classic car enthusiasts outbid them. We see mostly American […]

Though we have little background on the circumstances that led the Volo Auto Museum to purchase these four air-cooled Chevrolet utility vehicles, it’s probably safe to assume that they (along with a handful of Corvair passenger cars) came from the collection of a dedicated Corvair enthusiast who simply couldn’t get around to restoring them all. […]

The fields at Hershey are lousy with go-karts and mini-bikes every year, but this one in particular caught my eye last fall, with its orange fiberglass body sculptured to look like the 1962 Corvair Monza SS concept car, complete with the turbine-look wheels and concave tail panel. It even had a rear-mounted engine for maximum […]