Few members of today’s adult generation remember firsthand the end of the 1950s, mostly because very few of us were born back then. Luckily, from time to time (quite often, actually), something from ...

The late 1950s and most of the 1960s were a time of great turmoil for the American auto industry. Every new product from one company got an instant response from the competition, and this tit for tat ...

Back in the '50s, car designers experimented with melding all sorts of unusual shapes. For instance, sedans influenced the design of Chevy's 1955 Cameo Carrier pickup. Ford followed suit with its ...

My recent article on the Ford Ranchero I christened as the first “car-pickup” generated numerous reader responses, including emails from Gabor Korthy, Augusta, Maine, and Guy S. (Sam) Colorossi, ...