I PICKED THIS 1962 Chevrolet Corvair Monza Club Coupe—one of 151,738 built that model year and 1962’s most popular Corvair—as a daily driver for a variety of reasons. One was traction: The rear-engine, rear-drive configuration will go anywhere I ask it to, regardless of roadcar, but the paperwork I found in the glovebox implies it moved to Michigan when it was only six years old and spent the next 30 years there as a daily driver. “Monza” trim and “high-performance” 102-hp engine notwithstanding, the little coupe is at its best as transportation—racking up 111,202 miles as of this writing.
