Hemmings Find of the Day – 1963 Chevrolet Corvan

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 – Corvairs for the ’70s

When did Corvair development stop? Before Richard Langworth’s article on the topic in SIA #68, April 1982, many people considered that date to be sometime in 1965, just before the second generation ‘Vair was released. But with a bevy of documentation on a series of sketches, renderings and clays, all provided by Chuck Jordan (along […]

SIA Flashback – The Long and Short of It

My love for the shorty-type cars is not unprecedented, as we see from Ray Scroggins’s article on shortened and lengthened cars from SIA #66, December 1981. Less a rigorous examination of the causes for shortening and lengthening cars, Scroggins’s article is more a stab at a compendium, showcasing some of the various types of cars […]