The Turbo-Air 6 was an air-cooled flat-six engine that General Motors developed in the late 1950s for the rear-engined Chevrolet Corvair, which reached showrooms in October 1959. Chief engineer Ed Cole drove the project, and the team under Maurice Olley judged that a rear engine would need to be made of aluminum and cooled by air. Senior project engineer Robert Benzinger and designer Al Kolbe led the work, and the first engine ran in December 1957. Aluminum formed the block, heads, crankcase cover and pistons, with six separate iron cylinder barrels, and most versions used one carburetor for each cylinder bank. The engine powered every Corvair body style, the Forward-Control vans and pickups and tuned cars such as the Yenko Stinger, and it ended with the Corvair after 1969. Its air cooling also made it popular with amateur aircraft builders.
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The Chevrolet Turbo-Air 6 is a flat-six air-cooled automobile engine developed by General Motors (GM) in the late 1950s for use in the rear-engined Chevrolet Corvair of the 1960s.
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The car and engine were officially introduced on 29 September 1959
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The Chevrolet Turbo-Air 6 is a flat-six air-cooled automobile engine developed by General Motors (GM) in the late 1950s for use in the rear-engined Chevrolet Corvair of the 1960s.
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The Chevrolet Turbo-Air 6 is a flat-six air-cooled automobile engine developed by General Motors (GM) in the late 1950s for use in the rear-engined Chevrolet Corvair of the 1960s.
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The Chevrolet Turbo-Air 6 is a flat-six air-cooled automobile engine developed by General Motors (GM) in the late 1950s for use in the rear-engined Chevrolet Corvair of the 1960s.
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It was used in the entire Corvair line, as well as a wide variety of other applications.
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It also powered the Forward-Control 95 series vans, including the Corvan and the Chevrolet Greenbrier van
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The Chevrolet Turbo-Air 6 is a flat-six air-cooled automobile engine developed by General Motors (GM) in the late 1950s for use in the rear-engined Chevrolet Corvair of the 1960s.
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