It's easy to think that big power V8 performance cars arrived in America in the '60s. This was the decade of the muscle car after all, and the horsepower race of this era was legendary, cementing its ...

The 1950s welcomed a slew of car models, contributing to a postwar boom of nearly 60 million vehicles. The decade's drivers got lots of chrome, flashy taillights, wraparound windshields, and those ...

The 1950s were a transformative period for the American automotive industry. Characterized by a shift towards larger, stylish, more powerful cars, the decade saw the rise of iconic designs, ...

Cars in the 1950s were visually striking, and not always for good reasons. While the decade produced such enduring automotive beauties as the classic Corvette, it also gave us a lot of cars that were ...

The '50s saw a wave of major changes affect the American auto market, with U.S. carmakers branching out with a wider variety of new models as a result of the post-war carmaking boom. Towards the end ...

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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 ...

The Petersen Automotive Museum is going back to the future with a new exhibit that will show off concept cars from the 1950s, with some of the rides coming straight out of the junkyard. “These cars ...

One section was dedicated to mid-50s cars. I took one look at them, and I just truly fell in love. Now, I have a little over two dozen of them. Julio Martell is what we would call a ‘car guy’ in the ...

Not all '50s cars were born cool. Sure, some started looking good over the years and others earned their keep as alternatives to the mainstream. A few even endeared themselves as loveable ugly ...

A fleet of rare vintage vehicles — by Citroën, Jaguar and Allard, among others — helped turn modern-day Manhattan into midcentury Paris for director Josh Safdie's buzzy solo feature. By Brett Berk ...