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 first backup camera on a U.S.-market car debuted in 2002, but the general idea dates back to the 1950s and this wild ...
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 1950s were a wild and wonderful time for car design. Fresh off the optimism of World War II’s end and riding the wave of the Space Age, automakers let their imaginations run wild. Rockets were ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Different_Brian / iStock.com They just don’t make them like they used to. Most cars from the 1950s are long gone, but some have ...
Derelict 1950s classic cars are far from unusual because you can find millions of them in junkyards across the U.S. But while there's plenty to choose from when it comes to Fords, GMs, and Mopars, you ...
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 ...
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 ...
The word "iconic" is thrown around so freely these days that its meaning is becoming as faded as the paint on an un-garaged classic car. When it comes to those very classics, however, the term still ...
History is priceless only if no one can afford it or it's not for sale. The first publicly-available 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 R Stromlinienwagen sold for $53.9 million at auction on Saturday after ...
LEWISTOWN VALLEY – Doo-wop music, ice cream sundaes and cars from the 1950s lent a nostalgic air to the Anthracite Region Antique Automobile Club of America cruise Saturday at Heisler’s Cloverleaf ...
CHICO — With several 1950s cars lining East Third Avenue and quite a few students dressed in period attire, kids and adults at Hooker Oak School might have appeared to be involved in “Way Back ...