Book Description
Get ready for a beauty pageant of 1950s glamour autos: finny luxury cars, two-seated sports cars, family-friendly station wagons, and spunky compacts. All the car makes and models we know today are included, plus plenty of long-lost favorites like DeSoto, Edsel, Hudson, Nash, Packard, Studebaker, and others. ¥ More than 1,600 photos and illustrations, most in full-color ¥ Year-by-year overviews of major news and cultural events ¥ Annual timelines that track important product and personnel developments from the automakers ¥ Period advertising and archival photos
Cars of the Fabulous '50s: A Decade of High Style and Good Times FROM THE PUBLISHER
Enjoy a colorful look back at the cars and the culture that made the '50s memorable. All the popular American makes, from AMC to Willys, pass in review once again in more than 1600 photographs - most in full color. Other motoring memories are sure to be relived through "slice of life" street scenes, period advertising, and lively accounts of people and events that shaped the decade.