Cars We Loved in the 1950s

Author: Giles Chapman
Publisher: Cars We Loved
ISBN: 9780750961004
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
After the Second World War, new cars in Britain were very hard to come by. Petrol was rationed, roads inadequate, and modern technology lacking. At the start of the 1950s, Morris, Austin and Ford put increasing numbers of British families on four wheels, while new sports cars from MG, Jaguar, Triumph and Austin-Healey promised motoring excitement. Giles Chapman investigates the fascinating motoring decade of the 1950s.

American Cars of the 1950s

Author: David Newhardt, Robert Genat
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781616730727
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description

Fifties Flashback

Author: Dennis Adler
Publisher: Motorbooks
ISBN: 0760319278
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
No other era in automotive history is as revered as the 1950s, when Detroit was the center of the auto world and the American V-8 was king of the road. With hundreds of color photos of beautiful restorations and a collection of rare archival photos, Dennis Adler has compiled a detailed history of the emerging postwar American auto industry.

Cars We Loved in the 1980s

Author: Giles Chapman
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750980648
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 612

Book Description
It was brash and it was loud – the 1980s put paid to the glumness of the '70s and nowhere was that more obvious than in the cars we drove, which took a quantum leap in durability, performance, equipment and style. They had to: Japanese quality and European design were luring away ever more customers. Features such as fuel injection, turbochargers, computer-controlled systems and four-wheel drive became commonplace. This was also the decade that brought us the people-carrier and the off-roader, new classes of car that radically reshaped family transport. Meanwhile, seatbelt-wearing became law, the M25 opened, speed cameras appeared and ram-raiding was the new motoring nemesis. Relive everything car-related in Britain in the 1980s with Giles Chapman.

Cars of the Fabulous '50s

Author: James M. Flammang
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780785343752
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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 photos.

Glamour Road

Author: Tom Dolle
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780764363900
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
This highly visual book explores the seldom-told story of how glamour, fashion, design, and styling became the main focus of automotive marketing from the postwar 1940s through the 1970s. With the expansion of the American suburbs after WWII, women suddenly needed cars of their own. By adopting the fashion industry's yearly model changes, as well as hiring many designers and stylists from the fashion industry, the automobile industry made a direct appeal to the rising sophistication and influence of women. By perfecting the fashion-centric concept of planned obsolescence, it became the dominant economic engine of American postwar prosperity. The dramatic photography, elegant fashion, and use of color and materials in midcentury automotive marketing created a groundswell of demand for new cars. Much of the marketing imagery of the period hasn't been published since it first came out, and this book features some of the best.

50s Cars

Author: Jim Heimann
Publisher: Taschen America Llc
ISBN: 9783822816301
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 181

Book Description
Gathers advertisements for American automobiles manufactured during the 1950s and briefly describes developments in the auto industry during the decade.

Indy Cars of the 1950s

Author: Karl Ludvigsen
Publisher: Enthusiast Books
ISBN: 9781583880180
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Journey into Gasoline Alley during one of the most evocative and exciting eras in the history of the great Speedway - the years of the Kurtis Roadsters, the lay-downs, the first Watsons, the formidable Novis, the V-12 Ferrari, the Bardahl-Ferrari, the Blue Crowns and the invincible Offys. Stunning photographs feature the cars, their engines, and their designs in amazing detail.

American Sports Car Racing in the 1950s

Author: Michael T. Lynch
Publisher: Motorbooks International
ISBN: 9780760303672
Category : Sports car racing
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Traces the history of stock car racing and looks at major drivers, teams, and racetracks.

Cuba Cars and Cigars

Author: Martin Bowman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781781556191
Category : Antique and classic cars
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
Glorious colour images complete with informative captions and introductory chapter of the rare and varied Cuban-owned 1950s American and European automobiles, trucks and station wagons that were imported before 1961. Sections include 'Last Chance Saloons', 'Winged Rockets and 38 D-Cups', 'Cuban Coupes', 'Keep On Trucking', 'Cuban Heels', 'Drive & Determination' and 'The Weird and Wonderful'. Among the famous Marques that feature are Cadillac, Chevy, Buick, Dodge, Oldsmobile, Ford, Packard, De Soto, Pontiac, Plymouth, Edsel, Mercury and Metropolitan, Hillman, Singer and Austin, Nash Sedans, a Lloyd 600 German 2-cylinder/4-stroke 596cc car, Ramblers and SAABs, Mercs, Humber, Standard Vanguard, Ford Consul/Zephyr, Hillman Husky and Minx, Singer Gazelle and Austin - most in running order and passed down from generation to generation. Trucks include Fords, a Fargo, Dodges and Chevys, not forgetting cigars, street urchins and the lovely ladies of Havana.