Items tagged with: Fifties

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1958 Oldsmobile Fiesta Super Eighty-Eight station wagon

From the seller’s description: Super Rare 1958 Oldsmobile Super 88 Fiesta 4-Door Hardtop Station Wagon Unbelievable amount of Chrome and Coolness! Nearly impossible to find, and even harder for peopl...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1951 Pontiac Eight sedan delivery

From the seller’s description: 1951 Pontiac Sedan Delivery : One of the rarest early 1950’s Pontiacs extant. Only 1,382 units built in 1951 model year. Massive straight eight engine rebuilt in 2000 a...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1952 Willys Aero Ace

Restored 1952 Willys Aero Ace for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Restored in 2005. Bare metal respray. Interior replaced at the same time. Good running original engine and smoot...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1954 Willys Aero Ace

Restored 1954 Willys Aero Ace for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Restored in 2005. Bare metal respray. Interior replaced at the same time. Good running original engine and smoot...

Four-Links – Armenian dreams, dream Packards, Honda at Isle of Man, Pittsburgh’s auto row

Photographer Lilia Li-Mi-Yan spent about a week in Armenia a few years back documenting Armenians’ love of their ErAZ vans, vans whose names resemble the Armenian word for “dream.” Built to resist, t...

Oldest surviving production Corvette chassis donated to National Corvette Museum

Photos courtesy National Corvette Museum, except where noted. Of the three cars in those famous June 1953 photographs of the first Corvettes coming off the Flint, Michigan, assembly line, only one st...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1959 Pontiac Catalina Vista hardtop

From the seller’s description: 1959 Pontiac Catalina Vista Hardtop . Immaculate, all original “Survivor” show car. 20,280 miles. 2 time POCI “Gold” Survivor Points Judged category 2001 & 2011. Owned ...

Nambour, Queensland, 1955

Date: circa 1955 Location: Nambour, Queensland, Australia Source: Sunshine Coast Council on Facebook What do you see here?

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1953 Lincoln Capri coupe

From the seller’s description: 1953 Lincoln Capri 2 Door Coupe, This Capri was orignially owned by race car driver Duane Carter and used as his chase car for the 1953 Mexico Panamara Race. It was own...

Car inspection sticker shock, an old car annoyance for decades

Dad and I spent a hot summer day sitting in my ‘51 Mercury at the Livingston, New Jersey, drive-in theater in 1961. Hundreds of cars were being inspected…and my radiator boiled over. Photos by the au...

“He probably did more with less than any driver I’ve ever seen:” Wendell Scott and the motorsports color barrier

Read enough about Wendell Scott and you’ll inevitably see somebody compare him to Jackie Robinson. Both men did indeed break the color barriers in their respective sports, but they did so through ent...

“Best-looking ever” Allard wasn’t enough to keep the company’s carbuilding efforts alive

Photos courtesy Silverstone Auctions. Sydney Allard cared about many things when building his sports cars. Aesthetics were not among those priorities. Yet with the Palm Beach Mark II, the prototype o...

Bill Mitchell’s 1956X Buick Century emerges from an eight-year restoration

1956X Buick Century, on display at the Gilmore Museum. Photos courtesy the Gilmore Museum. As the director of styling at General Motors (and later, upon Harley Earl’s retirement, vice president of it...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1959 Crosley-based special

Hand-built 1959 Crosley-based special for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Very attractive styling for a hand-crafted one-off from California. Designed and built by a sports car e...

All five of Cummins’s Indy race cars to take to the track together for the first time

Photos courtesy Cummins. As a 23-year-old test inspector for Marmon in 1911, Clessie Cummins jumped at the chance to crew for Ray Harroun’s Marmon Wasp at the inaugural Indianapolis 500, an experienc...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1957 Rambler Rebel

Three-on-the-tree 1957 Rambler Rebel for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This 1957 Rambler was inherited from a relative in Nevada. I had the car shipped to NY in December. The c...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1957 Pontiac Star Chief two-door Catalina

Collector-owned 1957 Pontiac Star Chief two-door Catalina for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This is a great looking and driving Pontiac. Very nice cruiser for all your cruise n...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1954 Dodge Coronet

Unrestored 1954 Dodge Coronet for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Perfect 1950’s Patina Classic!! Here is a fresh barn find that you won’t find every day! Only two owners not cou...

Four-Links – McCluggage scholarship, 1955, Lordstown, Hamilton

To support women in automotive fields, McPherson College senior Abigayle Morgan has started a scholarship named in honor of Denise McCluggage. I have proposed to create and grow a scholarship campaig...

Philadelphia, 1959

Date: November 1959 Location: 46th and Market streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Source: William S. Coward, Temple University Digital Libraries What do you see here?

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1957 Mercury Turnpike Cruiser

From the seller’s description: Up for sale is a fantastic 1957 Mercury Turnpike Cruiser . Full Restoration inside and out, Power steering,Power Brakes, 368 Cubic Inch rebuilt engine with automatic tr...

Four-Links – 50 years of GT-R, DS tiller, exploded Miura, short-frame Buicks

This past week, as Japanese Nostalgic Car noted, marked the 50th anniversary of Nissan’s GT-R, the sedan with the heart of a race car, designed by Prince engineers working within the company. What re...

Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1957

Date: March 1957 Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts Source: Nishan Bichajian, via MIT-Libraries on Flickr What do you see here?

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1959 Ford Galaxie 500 convertible

From the seller’s description: 1959 Ford Galaxie 500 Convertible, Owner purchased car brand new at age of 17 years with the help of his parents. He used the car as his primary vehicle for 3 short yea...

With just a Harley V-twin and some fiberglass, Bill Burke’s Super Shaker was good for 150 MPH

Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. To many, land-speed racing is an open-ended license to innovate and push the bounds in the pursuit of speed. Bill Burke took that freedom to heart over a multi-decade ...

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