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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I asked you, our feral commentariat, to give me your opinions on what the best cars of the 1950s were and holy hell, did you all deliver. We've got Chevys, we've got Dodges. There are Benzes and ...

While every gearhead has their own favorite decade of cars, most will agree that the '50s gave us the most prolific cars. It was the golden age of automobiles. Cars of the era were so good that one of ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was in 2013 when I sat down with three Crusin' Classics Car Club members to talk about the days of their youth when they would ...

When it comes to 1950s cars, we usually think about iconic nameplates like the Chevrolet Bel Air, Chrysler 300 "letter series," or the Cadillac Eldorado. But some lesser-known automobiles are just as ...

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 ...