Since World War II, there has only been one new American car that was a huge leap forward from what had been built before its debut in 1959, and that car was the 1960 Chevrolet Corvair. No other car ...
General Motors sold more than two million Chevrolet Corvairs from the 1960 through 1969 model years, and the Corvair's combination of "interesting car" and "not worth very much" means that many of ...
This is an excerpt from Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars, opens new tab,published this month by Simon & Schuster. The historic events, however, were set in motion 40 ...