1950's Collector Cars including Prices

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1951 ----- All Buicks get restyled front end
1955 ----- Tri Tone Paint option offered
1957 ----- All Models have restyle
1959 ----- Buicks sport Delta Wing canted fins













1950 --- All Cadillacs get 1 piece windshield
1952 ----- All cars fitted with dual exhaust outlets tips in rear bumpers














1957 ----- New Fuel injected Corvette manages 0 to 60 in 5.7 seconds
1958 ----- The new designed Corvette proves to be a selling success










1950 --- Ignition Key Starter switches replace former pushbuttons
1951 ----- The complicated Hemi V8 engine is the most powerful engine on sale
1957 ----- V8's engines gain in power and Horsepower
1958 ----- Automatic speed control offered on Chrysler
1959 ----- Chrysler Windsor Sedans top selling model

















































1950 --- Gas filler is hidden behind fender flap
1952 ----- All Models are restyled for the year the only manufacturer to do so
1955 ----- 3 main series offered Mainline, Customline and Fairlane Ford Thunderbird goes on sale
1956 ----- Ford cars fitted with seatbelts














1950 --- All Hudsons employ a fluid cushioned clutch
















1952 ----- 4 way power seats available on Lincoln's






1956 ----- Mercury cars fitted with seatbelts




















1950 --- Aerodynamic drag rating is the best in the industry
1951 ----- Nash Healey Sports car is joint venture between Austin Healey and Nash










1951 ----- All models now come with V8 engines






















































1950 --- New Bullet nose is introduced
1956 ----- Studebaker Chairman looks for buyer to keep the company afloat
1959 ----- Most models fitted with 4 headlights







1950's Cars Information

Some of the type of advertising for cars available in the 1950's

Willys Woody Car for comfort and economy

Studebaker is a sleek and fleet look with Roadhugging Surefootedness

Buick the beautiful buy just for you

Ford cars worth more when you buy it worth more when you sell it

Dodge 54 from any point of view a lot more for your money

Chrysler between thought and action with instant power response

Pontiac 1955 with 180HP V8 and twin streak styling

American Motors Rambler from Nash and Hudson Distinction in Driving

Cadillac Elegance is the word that expresses it

The 1950s was one of the most memorable eras in automotive history.

The average new car cost about 1,750 dollars and a gallon of gas went for 27. cents a gallon.

This was the first time teenagers had the chance to own and drive their own cars.

The 50's also brought Ford into the 50s style of design , until then they had been remodeling the same 1942 style car.

Fords new slogan was" 50 new improvements for the "50s.

Some of improvements were:

Recessed gas filler neck,

Redesigned hood ornaments,

Flat-top horn ring,

Three bladed cooling fan

Push-button handles on exterior doors.

An assembly plant designation was used in the serial numbers for the first time.

The Ford Thunderbird was one of the 1950s super cars. The stylish new sports car with a new 102in. wheelbase chassis frame, and a smart new body style , barrel sides, and straight through wing lines from head lamp to tail-lamp cluster,and a fully wrapped-round windscreen with a pronounced dog-leg pillar.

Chevrolet offered the 1950 styleline deluxe sedan with affordable automatic transmission.

Mean while in the UK BMC was offering the 1959 mini minor one of the first compact cars that offered full 4 pass anger seating .

In the 50s Chryslers advertising not only pictured elegance in automotive design, it also highlighted advancements in engineering. Hydraglide,the industries first power steering unit, was introduced in 1951, and reduced steering effort by up to 80 percent.

Following on the heels of Hydraglide were two other innovations-air cooled brakes, and Hemi-head V8 engine.

Eventually a 300-horsepower Hemi-head engine found its way into the Chryslers brand's most notable achievements- the 1955 Chrysler C300. As the most powerful full sized car in the world,it found its way into the NASCAR circuit, winning 20 out of 40 races held in 1955. When NASCAR officials realized the power of the 300C engine the decision to ban it from sanctioned racing.

Oddly enough the negative publicity, made the Chrysler C300 even more popular, and led up to a similar "super car" in 1956. In 1956 Chrysler teamed up with CBS to offer the " Highway HI-FI" a compact phonograph mounted under the dashboard that played specially-made records.

In 1957 the now famous torsion-bar suspension which provided superior handling and allowed for much lower body styles .

At the end of the decade in 1958, Chrysler created a much more efficient and dependable alternative to the carburetor with the development of the electronic fuel injection.

In 1954 Jaguar produced the racing D-Types, initially as a racing car, and from 1955 as a limited production machine for worldwide sale. More of these cars were built than could be sold, and at the end of 1956 these D-Types would be reworked and sold as "road-going " cars renamed the XKSS.

One of the most famous Mercedes of all time was the, was the gull -wing 300SL..The engine was so heavy the rest of the car had to be as light as possible, to which the competition department designed a stressed multi-tubular space frame, that weighted a little more then 110 lb (50)kg.This car would reach 60mph in under 7.5 sec. and 100mph (160kph) in less than 15 sec.

At the end of the 1950s decade a average car cost around 2,200 dollars, and a gallon of fuel was about 30. cents. The 1950s produced so of the most famous, and most collectable cars of our time.

Some of the new innovations and safety features found in cars from the 1950's

Seatbelts

vacuum-operated wipers replaced with electric

Automatic Gearboxes

Disk Brakes

Synchronized Manual Gearboxes

Electric Windows

Radial Tyres

Powersteering

Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider, 1900 CSS

Austin A90, A 30, A35, A 40, Cambridge, A55, Healey 100/4, 100/6

Healey Frogeye Sprite, Metropolitan Nash

Buick Century, Eight, Riviera, Skylark,

Cadillac DeVille, Eldorado,

Chevrolet Corvette, Bel Air, Surburban, Biscayne,

Chrysler Nassau Coupe, Saratoga,

Ford V8 Pilot, Crown Victoria, Fairlane, Mainline, Sunliner Convertable,

Ford F-100 Pickup Thunderbird Convertable Popular Prefect

Ford Zephyr Zodiac Consul Anglia Mustang

Hillman Minx

Humber Hawk

Jaguar XK120 XK140 XK150

Lincoln Capri Continental

Mercedes 300 220 300SL Gullwing 190

Mercury Monterey



MG TD TF Magnette MGA Coupe MGA Roadster

Morris Oxford Minor Split Screen Minor Series 2 Minor Convertible

Packard Clipper



Plymouth Belvedere Pontiac Catalina Woody

Renault Dauphine



Rover 90

Studebaker Golden Hawk

Triumph T100 TR2 TR3

Vauxhall Wyvern Velox

Volkswagen VW Beetle Camper Van

Wolseley 6/80