You often think you know the 1950s, but some standout cars from that decade slipped under the radar and deserve a fresh look.

The 1950s turned American cars into rolling monuments, stretching sheet metal, horsepower, and chrome to extravagant new ...

Even though it managed to survive the Great Depression, Packard eventually disappeared in the 1950s, being unable to compete with Detroit giants like Ford, Chrysler, and GM. Following a merger with ...

The new, novel way of delivering fuel to an engine first debuted in an American car in 1957. Officially, the first car to use ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Photographer John Zimmerman worked out of the Time-Life bureau in Detroit in the 1950s, covering the Big ...

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a muscle car as "any of a group of American-made two-door sports coupes with powerful engines designed for high-performance driving." Other definitions claim ...

At 2 years old, Adriel Espinoza may have an affinity for cartoons, but it's his natural attraction to lowriders and his parents love that really got him started. To combine the two, his parents got ...

Bernardo Casian of Cathedral City, California, went to his first lowrider car show in 1992. "Since then I've been wanting a lowrider, but I couldn't afford one at the time. I got into greaser cars ...

The new Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, which makes its world debut this autumn at the Frankfurt motor show, celebrates the formidable SLR race cars of the 1950s and will mark a new era of M-B grand ...