The Chevrolet Corvair was a rear-engined automobile produced by General Motors from 1960 to 1969. The Corvair was offered in a wide range of body styles (such as a four-door sedan, coupe, convertible, station wagon, pickup, a van called the Greenbrier) and featured an air-cooled engine, which was unusual for American cars at the time. The Corvair remains one of GMs most unusual creations. Design began in 1956 under the auspices of Ed Cole, and the first vehicles rolled off the assembly line in late 1959 as part of the 1960 model year (in which it w ...

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Chevrolet Corvair - History
Chevrolet Corvair - 1961 Chevrolet Corvair - 1962 – 1963 Chevrolet Corvair - 1964 Chevrolet Corvair - 1965 Chevrolet Corvair - 1966 – 1969
Chevrolet Corvair - Engineering Chevrolet Corvair - Modifications
Chevrolet Corvair - Yenko Stinger Chevrolet Corvair - John Fitch Corvair Sprint Chevrolet Corvair - V8 Corvairs

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Chevrolet Corvair, Chevrolet Corvair - History, Chevrolet Corvair - 1961, Chevrolet Corvair - 1962 – 1963, Chevrolet Corvair - 1964, Chevrolet Corvair - 1965, Chevrolet Corvair - 1966 – 1969, Chevrolet Corvair - Engineering, Chevrolet Corvair - Modifications, Chevrolet Corvair - Yenko Stinger, Chevrolet Corvair - John Fitch Corvair Sprint, Chevrolet Corvair - V8 Corvairs

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Hippie (also hippy) is a term originally used to describe some of the rebellious youth of the 1960s and 1970s. The word hippie was popularized by the late San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen. Caen's articles were always written with the help of notes and letters from his San Francisco fan base. He is also credited as among the first to include the words beatnik and yuppie in his column. Though not a cohesive cultural movement with manifestos and leaders, some hippies expressed their desire for change with ...

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Hippie - Origins Hippie - Politics Hippie - Drugs Hippie - Legacy Hippie - Characteristics Hippie - Pejorative connotations Hippie - Hippy
Hippie - European countercultures after WW2
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The Corvair engine design was so unique that good dealer service and maintenance was spotty. Mechanics, unused to the aluminum head and crankcase, would frequently overtighten threaded fasteners and spark plugs, stripping the threads out of the aluminum, requiring extensive repair. Due to the greater thermal expansion of aluminum, valve clearances had to be measured at operating temperature. When they were measured on a cold engine, engines frequently and incorrectly were diagnosed as needing "valve jobs" early in their life. In fact, the valve train in most engines usua ...

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The engine was stroked out to 164 in&sup3 (2.7 L) for 1964. Power output was boosted to 95 hp (70 kW) for the base model and 110 hp (80 kW) in the high performance normally aspirated engine, while the Turbocharged engine remained rated at 150 hp for this year. This increase in stroke was the maximum the engine could tolerate, to the point that the bottoms of the cylinder barrels had to be notched to clear the big end of the connecting rods, while the bottom piston rings at the lowest point of the piston trav ...

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Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile by Ralph Nader, published in 1965, is a book detailing his claims of resistance by car manufacturers to the introduction of safety features, like seat belts, and their general reluctance to spend money on improving safety. One of the examples of the book was General Motors' Chevrolet Corvair, although the criticisms against the Corvair were out of date by the time the book was published. The 1960–63 Corvairs did indeed have a suspension design which requi ...

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Many Corvair engine fans acquired a second life after the demise of their engines, mounted bottom side out on the outside of the wheels of Corvettes involved in road-racing, in order to pull air through the brakes and keep them cool. Lightweight and cheap, they were perfectly sized. The single carburetor on each head of the two carburetor engine was not mounted symmetrically in the center of the intake manifold, where it might be intuitively placed, but offset from the center, between the middle and end cylinders. Although sometimes e ...

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Chevrolet Corvair engine, Chevrolet Corvair engine - 140, Chevrolet Corvair engine - 145, Chevrolet Corvair engine - 164, Chevrolet Corvair engine - Problems, Chevrolet Corvair engine - Corvair engines swapped into Volkswagens, Chevrolet Corvair engine - Trivia and arcana

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Initially, the cooling fans were designed with a twist to the vanes, so that they were only efficient when rotating in the correct direction. Early on, however, the vanes on the fan became vertical and radial, so that the fan functioned identically in either rotation. Whatever the reason for this change, one effect was that the engine could easily be configured to run in the direction opposite from stock. This proved useful for those who swapped the engine into Volkswagen Beetles and dune buggies, since the Corvair engine's normal direction ...

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Chevrolet Corvair engine, Chevrolet Corvair engine - 140, Chevrolet Corvair engine - 145, Chevrolet Corvair engine - 164, Chevrolet Corvair engine - Problems, Chevrolet Corvair engine - Corvair engines swapped into Volkswagens, Chevrolet Corvair engine - Trivia and arcana

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Turbocharging is very common on diesel engines in conventional automobiles, in trucks, for marine and heavy machinery applications. In fact, for current automotive applications, non-turbocharged diesel engines are becoming increasingly rare. Diesels are particularly suitable for turbocharging for several reasons: Naturally-aspirated diesels have lower power-to-weight ratios compared to gasoline engines, turbocharging will improve this P:W ratio. Diesel engines require more robust construction because they already run at ...

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Turbocharger, Turbocharger - Principle of operation, Turbocharger - Design details, Turbocharger - Reliability, Turbocharger - Lag, Turbocharger - Boost, Turbocharger - Applications

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Forgotten today is that the Vega was a strong seller, especially in the wake of the Arab Oil Embargo, which drove Americans away from traditional large cars in favor of smaller compacts such as Vega, Pinto and especially foreign imports. Although Chevrolet sold over two million Vegas during its lifetime, the car was plagued with poor reliability and several highly publicized design problems including carburetor fires, engine overheating problems, and premature body rust, which began to affect sales after 1974. The Vega was later dubbed as "t ...

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Chevrolet Vega, Chevrolet Vega - Problems

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Laura Bush was born Laura Lane Welch in Midland, Texas, the only child of Harold Bruce Welch (1912–1995) and Jenna Louise Hawkins (born 1919). Her family were conservative Democrats, as were the majority of people in Texas at that time. She grew up in Midland and attended the same junior high school as her future husband (she did not know him at the time) and the same Robert E. Lee High School as Tommy Franks. In May 2000, a two-page police report about a fatal car crash caused by Bush (then Laura Welch) when she was 17 was m ...

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Laura Bush, Laura Bush - Early life, Laura Bush - College years teacher librarian, Laura Bush - Marriage and family, Laura Bush - First Lady of Texas, Laura Bush - First Lady of the United States

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The Valiant appeared in 1960 as its own marque and was advertised as the Valiant by Chrysler Corp. For 1961, it was assigned to Plymouth, while Dodge's 1961 version was called the Lancer. The 1960–1962 Valiant and Lancer rode on a 106.5 in (2705 mm) wheelbase. The Valiant was not nearly as radical as the competition from General Motors' Chevrolet Corvair, which had an air-cooled rear-mounted engine. It was considered more daring than the also-new Ford Falcon, however. The Falcon was totally conventional, while the V ...

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Plymouth Valiant, Plymouth Valiant - 1960, Plymouth Valiant - 1963, Plymouth Valiant - 1967, Plymouth Valiant - Australian Valiants; a different path emerges, Plymouth Valiant - 1971, Plymouth Valiant - 1974, Plymouth Valiant - 1983, Plymouth Valiant - Australia 1971–81

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John De Lorean - Packard Motor Company. DeLorean's time in the employ of Chrysler lasted less than a year, when he was offered a $14,000 per year position at Packard Motor Company under supervision of noted engineer Forest McFarland. DeLorean quickly drew attention at his new employer with his development of an improvement to the company's Ultramatic automatic transmission, giving it a much improved torque converter and dual drive ranges; it was launched as the "Twin-Ultramatic". However, Packard was in serious f ...

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John De Lorean, John De Lorean - Childhood, John De Lorean - Education, John De Lorean - Professional life, John De Lorean - Packard Motor Company, John De Lorean - General Motors, John De Lorean - De Lorean Motor Company, John De Lorean - Delorean DeLorean or De Lorean?, John De Lorean - Sources

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The mid-size class grew out of the compacts of the early 1960s. One of the first, the Ford Fairlane, was refered to at its introduction in 1962 as a compact intermediate. This was true, as it was barely bigger than its close relative the Falcon. General Motors' first entries in the class, such as the Oldsmobile F-85 and Pontiac Tempest were not mechanically related to the compact Chevrolet Corvair, but were similar in size. The class began to grow almost immediately, however, and for the next 15 years each expansion in size in the ful ...

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Mid-size car, Mid-size car - North America, Mid-size car - Europe Australia & New Zealand, Mid-size car - Japan, Mid-size car - External link

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List of commercial failures - Hardware flops. 3Com Audrey and Kerbango The failures of these simple web and audio devices were widely seen as the death-knell for internet appliances. Amiga CDTV This early multimedia computer was overpriced and suffered from using the obsolete AmigaOS 1.3, when version 2.0 was already available. Apple Computer flops The Apple III, Apple Lisa, and arguably the Apple Newton are notable failed Apple products. Many of the Lisa ...

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List of commercial failures, List of commercial failures - Commercial failures in aviation, List of commercial failures - Automotive flops, List of commercial failures - Computing flops, List of commercial failures - Hardware flops, List of commercial failures - Software flops, List of commercial failures - Internet dot-bombs, List of commercial failures - Retail flops, List of commercial failures - Food and drink flops, List of commercial failures - Other commercial flops

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Full-production vehicles are listed here. Many were preceded by racing-only cars. First automobile manufacturer - Panhard et Levassor (1889) (followed by Peugeot in 1891) First standardized automobile - Benz Velo (1894) First mass-produced automobile - Oldsmobile Curved Dash (1901) List of automotive superlatives - Engine types. V4 First V4 - 1922 Lancia Lambda Honorable mention - 1903 Marmon (few produced) See also:

List of automotive superlatives, List of automotive superlatives - Some notes about units of measurement used herein, List of automotive superlatives - Engine capacity/displacement, List of automotive superlatives - Engine output, List of automotive superlatives - Fuel economy, List of automotive superlatives - Engine capacity, List of automotive superlatives - Dimensions, List of automotive superlatives - Overall, List of automotive superlatives - Wheelbase, List of automotive superlatives - Track, List of automotive superlatives - Weight, List of automotive superlatives - Other, List of automotive superlatives - Power, List of automotive superlatives - Most power, List of automotive superlatives - Most torque, List of automotive superlatives - Most specific power power to weight ratio, List of automotive superlatives - Most specific engine output power per unit volume, List of automotive superlatives - Most specific torque torque per unit volume, List of automotive superlatives - Least specific engine output power per unit volume, List of automotive superlatives - Performance, List of automotive superlatives - Sales, List of automotive superlatives - Firsts, List of automotive superlatives - Engine types, List of automotive superlatives - Engine technologies, List of automotive superlatives - Body, List of automotive superlatives - Transmission, List of automotive superlatives - Layout, List of automotive superlatives - Suspension, List of automotive superlatives - Brakes, List of automotive superlatives - Driver-aids, List of automotive superlatives - Passive-restraint, List of automotive superlatives - Tires, List of automotive superlatives - Lighting/electrical, List of automotive superlatives - Other, List of automotive superlatives - American types, List of automotive superlatives - Pre-War

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A turbocharger is an exhaust gas driven supercharger. All superchargers have a gas compressor in the intake tract of the engine which compresses the intake air above atmospheric pressure, greatly increasing the volumetric efficiency beyond that of naturally-aspirated engines. A turbocharger also has a turbine that powers the compressor using wasted energy from the exhaust gases. The compressor and turbine spin on ...

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Turbocharger, Turbocharger - Principle of operation, Turbocharger - Design details, Turbocharger - Reliability, Turbocharger - Lag, Turbocharger - Boost, Turbocharger - Applications, Turbocharger - History

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Boxer engines of up to six cylinders have proved highly successful in both automobiles and motorcycles, and continue to be popular for light aircraft engines. One benefit of using a boxer engine versus a V engine is that the design provides good balance because each piston's momentum is exactly counterbalanced by the corresponding piston movement of the opposite side. These engines can run very smoothly and free of vibrations with a four-stroke cycle, regardless of number of cylinders, and do not require a balance shaft or counterweig ...

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Flat engine, Flat engine - Boxer engines, Flat engine - 180° V engines, Flat engine - Flat engine designs, Flat engine - Other engine designs

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The first A platform was a "compact" (for the time) platform for the FR layout 1961 Buick Special, Oldsmobile Cutlass, and Pontiac Tempest and RR layout Chevrolet Corvair. It grew through the 1960s and 1970s as a rear wheel drive platform, finally to be discontinued for 1982. High sales, however, kept the platform alive as the renamed G-body. This A-body was used in a wide variety of GM's most famous cars of the muscle car era, incl ...

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GM A platform, GM A platform - 1961, GM A platform - 1973-1977, GM A platform - 1982

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List of vehicles in Grand Theft Auto series - Heavy vehicles. Benson — VC, SA Boxville — VC, SA Bus — 1, 1969, 2, 3, VC, SA, LCS Cement Truck — SA Coach — 3, VC, SA, LCS Combine Harvester — SA resembles a John Deere combine DFT-30 — SA Dozer — SA Dumper ...

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List of vehicles in Grand Theft Auto series, List of vehicles in Grand Theft Auto series - Road vehicles, List of vehicles in Grand Theft Auto series - Heavy vehicles, List of vehicles in Grand Theft Auto series - Midsize/Off-road vehicles, List of vehicles in Grand Theft Auto series - Light vehicles, List of vehicles in Grand Theft Auto series - High performance/Sports vehicles, List of vehicles in Grand Theft Auto series - Service vehicles, List of vehicles in Grand Theft Auto series - Gang cars, List of vehicles in Grand Theft Auto series - Bikes, List of vehicles in Grand Theft Auto series - Miscellaneous vehicles, List of vehicles in Grand Theft Auto series - Trains, List of vehicles in Grand Theft Auto series - Aircraft, List of vehicles in Grand Theft Auto series - Airplanes, List of vehicles in Grand Theft Auto series - Helicopters, List of vehicles in Grand Theft Auto series - Sea vessels

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