On a cool English summer’s day in July 1962, a young middle-class couple called Edward Mayhew and Florence Ponting were married in Oxford and drove to begin their honeymoon by the Dorset coast. The ...

Ask most muscle car enthusiasts to identify the car that kicked off the muscle car era, and they will most likely say it was the 1964 Pontiac GTO and not the 1962 Plymouth Fury Max Wedge. Why? Because ...

Fifty years ago, John Glenn orbited the earth, the Rocket entered the world and a New York baseball team burned up on re-entry to the National League. That summer, Americans could hear Elvis Presley ...

Caption from June 8, 1962, issue of LIFE. "What went wrong in the wild stock market and what it means for the U.S."John Dominis—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images It’s probably cold comfort to anyone ...

Despite a series of earthquakes that had ravaged the country, Chile was chosen to stage the 1962 World Cup. Foul play was a feature of the finals, with the most notable victim being Pele, who hobbled ...

After 15 years of great success with their pre-unit twins, the 500cc A7 and the 650cc A10, BSA had a real challenge ahead of them. How do you follow up a ‘home run’ like the A7 & A10? They had proven ...