Items tagged with: Fifties

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1950 Plymouth DeLuxe three-passenger coupe

From the seller’s description: 1950 Plymouth Deluxe business coupe. Excellent condition! 38,050 guaranteed original miles! I have owned this car for almost 9 years and it is absolutely the finest 195...

Beyond El Malacon, part 2 – Gavin’s Cuba holiday

Photos courtesy Gavin in the UK. Continuing our effort to document the old cars of Cuba as they are now, before the country embraces modernization and before the cars themselves break down one last t...

Beyond El Malecon, part 2 – Gavin’s Cuba holiday

Photos courtesy Gavin in the UK. Continuing our effort to document the old cars of Cuba as they are now, before the country embraces modernization and before the cars themselves break down one last t...

Predicting the (near) future – Mercury’s 1956 XM Turnpike Cruiser concept

Mercury’s 1956 XM Turnpike Cruiser concept. Images courtesy The Old Car Manual Project. In April of 1954, John Najjar, then head of Lincoln’s pre-production studios, sketched a series of five futuris...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1957 Studebaker Golden Hawk

From the seller’s description: 1957 Studebaker Golden Hawk with a numbers matching supercharged V8 motor with automatic transmission and 81K miles. The car was delivered new to eastern NC and remaine...

Interview: How to preserve a one-of-four GM-built munchkin-sized 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air

Text courtesy Joe Essid. Photos courtesy Marty Martino and GM Media. Marty Martino, owner of Martino Productions, should be known by now to Hemmings readers for his work on restoring several 1950s GM...

Wellston, Missouri, 1950s

Date: circa 1950s Location: 6101 Martin Luther King Drive, Wellston, Missouri Source: The Old Motor What do you see here?

Margate City, New Jersey, 1950s

Date: circa early 1950s Location: Atlantic and Decatur avenues, Margate City, New Jersey Source: via John Shea What do you see here?

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1952 Jaguar XK-120 roadster

Unrestored 1952 Jaguar XK-120 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Stored in Atlanta, GA for three years, this car was purchased in 1969 by a small town banker in Southwest Virgin...

Year, Make and Model – 1954 Plymouth Belvedere

Photos by Jim Donnelly. Editor’s note: This piece includes excerpts from a story that appeared in the June 2012 issue of Hemmings Motor News. The middle of the 1950s were filled with excitement over ...

Free vehicle information kits for many Chevrolets and Cadillacs, and a few Oldsmobiles

No, this 1970 ad is not included in the Vehicle Information Kits. It’s just used to provide a compelling lead photo, since the kits were scanned in black and white. It’s very rare that anything assoc...

The $5,000 Challenge, patina-rich edition

The problem with owning a perfectly restored classic car is this: using it as a regular driver is bound to induce a certain amount of paranoia. After spending more on a paint job than you did on your...

Bellaire, Texas, 1950s

Date: circa 1950s Location: Sixth and Old Richmond, Bellaire, Texas Source: Peter Whitney, via Houston Area Digital Archives What do you see here?

Reminiscing – I love Edsel

In the summer of 1957, right around my 6th birthday, I first got wind of the Edsel. I liked looking at my Dad’s magazines: Popular Science and Business Week. The June 22 cover showed James Nance, pos...

Las Vegas, 1955

Date: circa 1955 Location: Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas, Nevada Source: Vintage Las Vegas What do you see here?

Norris, Tennessee, 1950s

Date: circa 1950s Location: Norris Dam, Norris, Tennessee Source: The Old Motor What do you see here?

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1950 Ford Custom DeLuxe

1950 Ford Custom DeLuxe for sale. From the seller’s description: FANTASTIC FOOR DOOR FORD ! Tired of looking for a 2dr ShoeBox Ford that’s in decent shape, or at a decent price ? All the good ones ar...

Four-Links – The American Motel, stanced Charger, Tamagawa Speedway, Jaguars reborn

Reader Greg Beaulieu forwarded this website that captures the golden age of American Motels, each a different example of mid-century architectural design and tourist trap aesthetic. They’re catalogue...

The Chrysler 300 Club gets back on track at International Meet

By William Hall. Photos by the author. It’s hard not to feel the optimism at the Chrysler 300 Club’s International Meet. From an early age we instinctually recognize smiles, and this event is full of...

Amelia-winning Pegaso, Le Mans-winning GT40 selected for IHMA Car of the Year finalists

Photo by Richard Lentinello. Ask a bunch of students to design a car and you’re guaranteed to end up with some unconventional results. Actually produce any of those unconventional results and you’re ...

Open Diff: What’s the most obscure automotive nickname you’ve heard?

Images via OldCarBrochures. Recently, thanks to regular commenter italianiron, we were introduced to a nickname for the chrome trim pieces that adorn the rear flanks of 1951-1952 senior Packards: bot...

Jam Handy takes us inside GM Design in the late 1950s

By now, just about anyone who is into vintage cars and has visited the Hemmings Daily knows who Henry Jamison “Jam” Handy was. We’ve frequently featured various selections from his treasury of automo...

Winter Haven, Florida, 1959

Date: circa 1959 Location: Cypress Gardens, Winter Haven, Florida Source: Americar via The Old Motor What do you see here?

The cars of Cuba, beyond El Malacon

Photos courtesy Maria Sokola. It’s tempting to think that if the old cars of Cuba survived the decades until now, they’ll be around forever. They’re timeless, right? They’re a cultural institution, w...

San Francisco, 1952

Date: 1952 Location: Sacramento Street and Mason Street, San Francisco, California Source: Shorpy What do you see here?

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