Classic American Cars - 40s and 50s

Icons of an era, these automobiles still fuel the dreams of many generations. Best time ever.


NOTICE: I do NOT own any of these pictures. They were all taken from || http://www.plan59.com || - a wonderful website, with complete posters from plenty of things from 1940s, 50s and 60s; including automobiles.


Vehicles featured(in order of appearance): 48 Hudson, 48 Olds Futuramic, 49 Mercury, 50 Nash Ambassador, 51 Packard 400, 52 Buick Roadmaster, 53 Cadillac Eldorado, 53 Studebaker Starliner, 54 Cadillac 75series, 54 Hudson Hornet, 54 Kaiser Manhattan, 55 Ford T-Bird, 55 Oldsmobile, 55 Packard Caribbean, 56 Buick Riviera, 56 Cadillac, 56 Cadillac DeVille Coupe, 56 Cadillac Eldorado, 56 DeSoto, 56 Lincoln Premiere, 56 Oldsmobile 98, 57 Buick, 57 Cadillac, 57 Chevrolet, 57 Chrysler 300C, 57 Ford Fairlane, 57 Mercury Turnpike, 57 Plymouth, 58 Buick Riviera, 58 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz(brown) and Eldorado Brougham(blue), 58 Cadillac Eldorado Fleetwood, 58 Chevrolet BelAir, 58 DeSoto Firedome, 58 DeSoto Firesweep, 58 Dodge Coronet, 58 Edsel Citation, 58 Ford Fairlane, 59 Cadillac DeVille Coupe, 59 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz, 59 Chevrolet Impala, 59 Chrysler NewYorker, 59 Edsel Corsair, 59 Ford T-Bird, 59 Mercury Parklane Cruiser, 59 Oldsmobile 98, 59 Plymouth and 1960 Pontiac Bonneville Coupe.

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[yomamasapeach]

Why do these cars look futuristic?

[DerAdventurer]

@yomamasapeach Because they were manufactured in a time economy was growing fast, mankind's will to achieve space was enormous and progress seemed to have no end. You can perfectly observ that cars in that decaded changed completely within 2 years, something not so usual for the current times.

[yomamasapeach]

@DerAdventurer I only wish that it stayed like this

[DerAdventurer]

@yomamasapeach Well yeah. In my opinion, cars stood stylish until the late 60s. In 70s, besides getting ugly, they faced their worst enemy.... Oil price. The 1973 crisis completely broke down the idea of powerful huge vehicles. It was good to the environment, but it killed for once the big cars.

[theoso66]

Beautiful!!!  This was the age of the greatest American cars, there won´t be another time like this again. Thanks for this awesome video.

[bostonguy01]

@DerAdventurer damn 23 cents wow thats just amazeing lol

[mrtin234]

bonitos recuerdos

[Ajen1959]

Some of the best looking cars ever!

[spongebo13]

comparing cars nowadays to cars of the 50s, it looks like the designs of modern cars have gone back in time rather than advanced. Modern cars are so basic and ugly and obsessed with crap safety laws (some of which are not even proved so why we actually have them is beyond me). As much as we like to think, we are not free these days, crap laws are stopping us creating works of art such as these cars. Back then... people were genuinely free to create what they wanted

[yabuddy43]

I would pay all my money to go back for just one day back then.

[DerAdventurer]

@boydni Sadly I believe you are right. This will be the century of badly made copy, the cheap sort. That's what China stands for.

[boydni]

@chargalant Im afraid America's golden era ended by the early 80's. Its quite sad really. This century will be China's century.

[yomamasapeach]

@DerAdventurer Yes, the 60's muscle car were so much better. It wasn't until the 1973 oil crisis did the change in power come. I watched a clip of jeremy clarkson testing a 1970's town car. All he had to say was that it was dreadful.