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