Jay Leno has turned a midcentury family hauler into a quiet rebuke of the anonymous crossover. By putting a 1954 Dodge wagon back on the road, he has shown how a long-roof built for carpool duty can ...

A 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 R Stromlinienwagen sold for $53.9 million at a Sotheby’s auction on Saturday, making it the most expensive Grand Prix car ever sold and the second most expensive car of all ...

You notice it the first time you see one in traffic: a compact, slightly humped silhouette that looks like it has already ...

On January 28, 1954, the Bermite Powder Company ammunition plant in Saugus exploded, injuring 14 female employees and killing ...

New York-based Motorcar Classics probably thinks it has you covered if you're willing to write a check for this black-on-black, chrome, and ivory-white 1954 Chevy Bel Air "old-school mild custom" that ...

On the week of May 17, 1954, many white Georgians reacted in shock, denial and anger when the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in the Brown v Board of Education case, striking down segregation ...

America's leading luxury car manufacturer before World War II, Packard, had fallen behind the Big Three in the late 1940s. By the early 1950s, its products were perceived as old-fashioned. In an ...

After World War II, GM redesigned its pickups. Chevrolet received the Advance Design series, while over at GMC, the new trucks were known as the New Design. The light-duty trucks were sleeker, more ...

A rare Mercedes-Benz has sold at auction for about $53 million The car is a W196 grand prix car raced by Juan Manuel Fangio and Stirling Moss The car was sold by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum ...

After the first fourteen or fifteen Chevy Corvette units were built at the Van Slyke Avenue location, production for the 1954 model year began in the renovated St. Louis facility in December 1953. The ...