The 1950s are remembered for tailfins and chrome, but the decade’s most important cars did something subtler than grab attention in a showroom. They rewired how people thought about speed, safety, ...
The 1950s turned American cars into rolling monuments, stretching sheet metal, horsepower, and chrome to extravagant new extremes. Size and power became status symbols, and designers treated every ...
The stars of the Gilmore Car Museum's new exhibition “Defined by Design” are these eight General Motors concept cars from ...
Cars from the 1950s embodied a lot of things: style, class, bold paint colors, sharp lines, and SO. MUCH. CHROME. From American-made Fords and Chevrolets to more eclectic overseas Porsches, ’50s rides ...
Created for GM's 'Motorama' rolling exhibit, the concepts range from aviation-inspired Jet Age creations to the dawn of the ...
A trio of rarely seen, futuristic concept cars from the 1950s are going up for auction at Sotheby’s, with an estimated value of up to $20 million. The Alfa Romeo B.A.T. Concept cars – each with a ...
As a member of the 1950s car club scene in Marin County, S. Kramer Herzog knew first-hand that being 16 and having a car was “the most important thing.” Herzog was a student at Davidson Middle School ...
The 1950s was a great era for American automobiles. The economy was booming, Americans were eager to buy larger, more powerful cars, and Detroit-based companies delivered. Almost 58 million cars were ...
Even though it managed to survive the Great Depression, Packard eventually disappeared in the 1950s, being unable to compete with Detroit giants like Ford, Chrysler, and GM. Following a merger with ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last week, a surprising cluster of 1950s European cars occupied some prime parking spots on Lexington Avenue and 75th Street in ...
Pretty much every single facet of Formula 1 today is unrecognisable versus the shape of grand prix racing at the start of the championship's life – just imagine the idea of Juan Manuel Fangio and ...