The fifties was exciting era for car manufacturer . America ’s post - war designs became sleeker and models like the Ferrari gained popularity oversea . Learn about exemplar from Bentleys and Rolls Royce to the 1950s Jeep poser .
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1950, 1951, 1952 Buick Roadmaster
1958 Buick Limited Classic Car
1956 Buick Special Riviera Coupe
1959 Cadillac Cyclone
1950-1959 Cadillac
1953-1954 Chevrolet Bel Air
1950, 1951, 1952 Chevrolet Bel Air
1959-1960 Chevrolet El Camino
1951, 1952, 1953, 1954 Chrysler Imperial
1951, 1952, 1953, 1954 Chrysler New Yorker
1957, 1958, 1959 Chrysler New Yorker
1955-1956 Dodge D-500
1955 Dodge Royal Sierra Custom Station Wagon
1957 Dodge Coronet Texan
The Ford Edsel Failed, But Why?
Was the Ford Edsel really that much of a failure?
1958 Edsel Bermuda
1959 Ford Galaxie
1957-1959 Ford Styling
1957-1959 Ford Ranchero
1954-1955 Hudson Italia
1951, 1952, 1953 Kaiser Traveler
1954 Mercury Sun Valley
1950 Mercury
1949-1951 Nash Airflyte
1950 Oldsmobile Series 76
1954-1956 Oldsmobile
1958 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88
1955-1956 Packard Patrician/Four Hundred/Executive
1958-1960 Rambler American
1950-1951 Studebaker Commander
1956-1961 Studebaker Hawk
1950-1951 Studebaker
1953-1956 Jeep
1959 Plymouth Sport Fury
1950, 1951, 1952 Pontiac Catalina
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Ford lash the public into a frenzy back in 1957 with its marketing political campaign for the Edsel , " the car of the future . " The Edsel was suppose to be everything American car buyers wanted . But - for many , many reasons - it was a terrible fizzle .
ByJamie Page Deaton
After an abortive ( and very expensive ) launch in 1957 , the Ford Edsel was discontinued in 1959 . Everyone sleep together the Edsel was n’t up to Ford ’s touchstone , but was it really as bad as history makes it out to be ?
ByCherise Threewitt
The early 1950s were strange clip in the U.S. auto industry . The manufacture had hit a gross revenue depression , and the Korean War was force new rationing policy for steel and arctic . pick up how Willys - Overland and Kaiser - Frazer weathered the 1950s depression .
The Fury began as a speedy , circumscribed - edition 1956 hardtop , and continued as such for the next two days . Though never a big seller , it throw a carrying out image over the entire Plymouth furrow with obvious sales significance . Learn more and see pictures .
Besides being the first modern V-8 from an independent , this classic car put Studebaker at least three years ahead of Chevrolet / Ford / Plymouth . Even by today ’s standard , the medium 28 mpg fuel efficiency is impressive . Get more glasses for this motorcar .
Anyone tolerate after 1960 may find this unvoiced to conceive , but there was a metre when hardtops like the 1950 - 1952 Pontiac Catalina were quite exotic . They also stood as elegant symbols of Pontiac ’s postwar turn toward a more luxurious cable car . Read more .
The 1952 - 1953 Allstate was an curious car that is remember today ( if it ’s remember at all ) for being Sears , Roebuck & Company ’s misguided attempt at entering the car grocery store . Get the story behind the Allstate and get specs for this odd classic .
The 1953 - 1954 Chevrolet Bel Air provides an excellent illustration of a pop pattern in the Detroit of the 1950s called reskinning – making an old car calculate new without changing its basic social structure by implement different knocked out panels . See pictures and get specs .
Packards advertizing shibboleth for its 1955 railroad car was " rent the Ride Decide . " Torsion bars mounted differently for the first time put up a remarkable combination of ride and manipulation . hear more about the 1955 Packard Patrician / Four Hundred / Executive .
The sporty 1952 Buick Roadmaster Riviera hardtop attract 11,387 buyers . It was a favorite shipping for the up - and - do professional – the doctor , the lawyer and anybody who could not quite yield a Cadillac . study about this classic Buick .
Chevrolet was the first to wreak out a low - price hardtop , the swank - trimmed 1950 Bel Air . Of the many innovational , affordable hardtops preface in 1950 , the Chevrolet Bel Air proved to be the most popular by far , scoring 74,634 sales . Read more .
The 1951 - 1954 Chrysler Imperial was the highest course of Chrysler , a car competing with the the like of Cadillac , Packard , and Lincoln . However , it tolerate because of bourgeois upright styling . See pictures and get eyeglasses for this classic 1950s car .
The 1951 - 1954 Chrysler New Yorker was n’t stylistically breathless , but its modern engineering draw applause . Few buyers agnise it was almost imperviable to rust fungus , and would last a couple hundred thousand miles with minimal maintenance . Learn more .
The 1957 - 1959 Chrysler New Yorker was the happy result of a major service at Chrysler in the mid-1950s . It featured a bold new design and an innovative automatic transmittance for the time . Learn more about the New Yorker and see pictures of the car .
The 1955 - 1956 Dodge D-500 , with its flair - fashion styling , help oneself Dodge shed its mossy image . And for 1955 , it was arguably the most knock-down railroad car on the road with a titanic hemi V-8 lurk under the hood . Get more spec for this classic car .
Sterling H. Edwards was a wishful thinker in San Francisco who see an exclusive , broken - output personal - luxury car – what would become the 1953 - 1955 Edwards America . Learn why only six were built , get specs and see pictures of this classic car .
Plain , unimposing , and obtuse , it was anachronistic even when new – which is precisely why it enchant today . For this was the first – and so far only – instance when a U.S. automaker dared resurrect one of its old models . See specification and photograph .
The Gaylord was designed by two sidekick whose sire was the inventor of the bobby However , their goal in establish the ultimate production sports car fall short . get wind why only four motorcar were build and get more spec of this classic sports motorcar .
The 1954 - 1955 Hudson Italia was Hudson ’s introduction in the red - red-hot sport - model market of the mid-1950s . Possibly the most marketable aspect of the 1954 - 1955 Hudson Italia was that it was , of course , Italian . See pictures and con more about this classic .
The 1951 - 1953 Kaiser Traveler was the brainchild of enterpriser Henry J. Kaiser – who , it was said , average about 100 ideas an 60 minutes and about one of them was good . See why this cable car is the granddaddy of the advanced hatchback and get specs for this classic .
The 1954 Mercury Sun Valley receive ample publicity , take " A glow of sentiment , a new gaiety and glamour , vast raw areas of visibleness , a whole raw concept of igniter and luxury " . See if this house of cards - top car with a charge card roof meet its advertising claims .
The 1958 Buick Limited was a failure for Buick ’s reentry into the luxury car market . Sales plummet due to an economic recess . Quality control and undisciplined figure flaws also spite sales . Read more about the Buick Limited .
The 1958 - 1960 Rambler American was the single most - popular fashion model in the 1960 Rambler American kinfolk thanks in part to its low $ 1,795 pop out monetary value . register more on the low-priced 1958 - 1960 Rambler American .
The 1949 - 1951 Nash Airflytes continue the most successful Nashes in chronicle , but the machine did have some controversy with such defect as sketch - corresponding styling , rust , and poor resale time value . Learn more about the Nash Airflytes .
The 1955 Dodge Royal Sierra Custom Station Wagon was project with " Flair Fashion " styling which boast two- to three - feel people of color outline to make cars appear longer and lower . . Learn more about this custom classic .
