People love 1950s classic cars because they are beautiful, iconic symbols of a hopeful post-war era, embodying innovation, freedom, and a simpler time. 1950s car design, characterized as a “golden age ...

With its bold fins, chrome accents, and luxurious features, the 1959 Dodge Custom Royal Lancer is a testament to the golden ...

Recent columns on cars and engines from the 1950 decade have resulted in numerous letters and comments via email from my loyal readers (thank you so much). Although I wrote a Top 10 muscle car column ...

If we had to choose one word to summarize American car design in the 1950s it very well might be “excess.” Automotive ...

PART 1: THE EARLY YEARS / PART 3: THE 1960s / PART 4: THE 1970s / PART 5: THE 1980s / PART 6: THE FUTURE Even though we had two years of publishing HOT ROD Magazine under our collective belts and ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 LEGO Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty Special that chauffeured F1 drivers to the Las Vegas GP will make an appearance at Canadian ...

Even though we had two years of publishing HOT ROD Magazine under our collective belts and there were 24 separate issues of "The Automotive 'HOW-TO-DO-IT' Magazine" in our library, HRM was still a ...