Welcome to Found Around The District, where we highlight fascinating cars we find around a city where people are too busy fighting through traffic and hunting for parking to drive anything interesting: Washington, D.C.

As we know, The General intended the Corvair to be a roomy compact sedan, not a performance car. BZR joined UDMan's Team Trailing Throttle Oversteer Corvair team at the LeMons New England race and lived to write about it!

We remain hopeless Ate Up With Motor junkies, and AUWM pusherman Aaron Severson has just provided us with more un-stepped-on automotive history for our mainlining pleasure.

It's the law: when the Corvair's name comes up, this book's name comes up. Most of you no doubt have very strong feelings about Ralph Nader, but how many of you have actually read his book?

I've been somewhat reluctant to post photos of this car, because I know that doing so will trigger a bunch of incoherent emails from Corvair freaks demanding that I sell them parts from "my" car.

Last week, reader Curtis sent in an intriguing tip: a self-service wrecking yard in my area had a "kit car that looks kinda like a GT40 powered by what looks to be a Porsche engine."

Is a vintage convertible with a rear-mounted flat six on your to-do list? Well, Nice Price or Crack Pipe says to put away your lederhosen, because this one's not a Porsche.

Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Hooray, another Alameda Corvair!

When we think of NASCAR in the early 60s, we think of big cars. Impalas. Furies. Galaxies. But for two glorious years, Detroit's new compacts took to the tracks in NASCAR-sanctioned events.

They're well into Day Two of racing at the 24 Hours Of LeMons New England, and there's no letup in the drama!